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Trumps son-in-law already working to set up Trump TV ahead of looming election defeat: reportBrad Reed BRAD REED 17 OCT 2016 AT 07:20 ET
In an ideal world, Donald Trump would simply disappear after losing in November but we dont live in that world.
Instead, he will very likely start up his own cable news channel, and the Financial Times reports that Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner has already started informal talks to get the network off the ground.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trumps-son-in-law-already-working-to-set-up-trump-tv-ahead-of-looming-election-defeat-report/
Cha
(297,240 posts)with RT.
thanks working.
Glamrock
(11,801 posts)So his whole campaign was a con to set up a viewing audience? Never saw that coming. Oh wait......yes I did.
This is something Hillary will have to address. This country cannot continue to be this country if the propaganda-gone-mainstream isn't reigned in. I'm not suggesting censorship. I am suggesting the "news" media be regulated to be honest.
And please don't ask me how, I just got up.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Might as well call it Deplorable TV. Taking shots at Hillary et al and forwarding stupid scandal theories, etc.
Glamrock
(11,801 posts)Trump wine, Trump magazine, Trump mortgage, & Trump for President on the ash heap of history.
still_one
(92,190 posts)anything from the network that decides to provide trump a forum for that garbage
Cakes488
(874 posts)Time to take a page from the conservative right's playbook and we need to complain in concert.
I've been calling and sending emails to representatives who say this is just "locker talk"....
still_one
(92,190 posts)reporting the news
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Commercials or send in $20 a month fan club.
Trump would find a way to stick most of it in his own pocket...
He will run it into the ground.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)his brand is in the crapper now
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)this way, their intent to reshape conservative politics to suit themselves. After all, they're involving themselves in Trump's candidacy, so why not a network, initially starring Trump as a main startup draw, that they control?
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)Gothmog
(145,242 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Sad.
global1
(25,248 posts)why shouldn't Trump be able to?
I told him that Trump should also produce a film bio about his sexual predatory ways - he could call it 'inconvenient Truths'.
Ace Rothstein
(3,163 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The religious right do it 24/7 on TV or live at the local MEGA church. Hate radio and its sponsors and Fox as well plus the reich wing book market makes millions.
I'm sure Don the Con wants a piece of their delusional hide.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)The reasons are simple:
- It's incredibly expensive to start a TV network from scratch. Where is Donald Trump going to get the money? American banks won't lend to him. We know he won't spend his own money. Will it come from Russians? Don't count on that.
- Which cable company will accept Trump TV on their service? Time-Warner? Comcast? Optimum? There is already a plethora of news on their systems. The controversy of distributing Trump TV would hurt their over-all business models. By the way, cable operators are not required to carry any and all programming that comes their way.
- The base of supporters that Mr. Trump enjoys is probably not large enough to sustain the 24/7 programming a new channel would have. In order for the channel to work economically, it would have to be a premium channel. Would enough of his supporters pay an additional monthly charge for Trump TV?
- Far too many corporations have shunned Donald Trump because of his extremism and bigotry. The list is long and includes Macy's, NBCUniversal, the PGA and many others. Where would the big money advertisers come from? Mr. Trump is toxic to so many Americans that the corporations will not want to associate with such a divisive man. The ads on a Trump TV would end up mirroring old-time late-night broadcast television. There's not enough money there to sustain a business that way.
- Where will Trump TV get its programming? An important point to consider is that Roger Ailes will not be able to assist a nascent Trump TV because of his severance deal from Fox News. But who is going to create the shows? Donald Trump is not a producer and it's very difficult to come up with 168 hours a week of programming. It's also expensive.
- A review of other attempts by right-wing individuals demonstrates the fragility of such programming. Sarah Palin's shows were failures so were Glen Beck's. Even Rush Limbaugh's programs (and their advertising dollars) have diminished in recent years. An entire network of such programming would be exceedingly difficult to execute.
- Donald Trump is going to be the thing he hates the most: a loser. He's trashed his own brand so thoroughly that it's hard to see how he could establish a consistent audience. In addition, Mr. Trump is going to be facing something else he hates: scrutiny. His legal problems are just beginning and he's going to find himself in a lot of courtrooms in the next couple of years. Does he really have the focus and business model to make a network successful? He doesn't seem to ever put in the hard work for any of his endeavors.
- The Financial Times article about Jared Kushner's informal talks with Aryeh Bourkoff also points out some of what I've written above. More importantly, the article doesn't indicate that anything concrete came of those talks. The article is speculative, at best.
Even if Trump TV gets off the ground, history has repeatedly demonstrated that Donald Trump's endeavors have an extremely high rate of failure. One analysis showed that only 25%-30% of his businesses made money.
Donald Trump is in a swirling vortex of personal, business, financial and legal troubles that will finally take him down. I won't watch Trump TV (if it happens) but I'll certainly enjoy the shows and news detailing his demise.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Eepecially better duck hunting device.
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)If he lost the primary, he'd have the most popular channel on TV right now, but instead he's going to launch a channel after losing the election that will last about as long as The Sarah Palin Channel did.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)just replace the CBS logo with a Trump TV Logo.......
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)O'Reilly is retiring and Hannity will be out the door.
Let Trump gather up all of the idiot RW bloviators in one place so they can sink into oblivion together.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I swear, I could see him acquiring Breitbart, InfoWars, 'talent' from Fox News, and starting it all out as a freaking YouTube channel to finance the crazy. He is bigger than Beck or Caribou Barbie and the hate on the right is ginned up to 11 already.
The timing is right for the Deplorables - Fox News canning Ailes was the fulcrum. There are millions of racist assholes in this country running around in red hats and spewing hate like normal people spew CO2. It is going to happen and it is going to be used to push conspiracies and de-legitimize the Clinton Presidency from day one. Just watch...by the 2018 mid-terms, TrumpV is going to be a thing...a real life, pain-in-the ass thing.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)It will be to the right of Fox "news" but not just be a TV channel. Trump will label it as a "movement".
They will declare war on the GOP first.
underpants
(182,804 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)And, Kushner must fit right in with the rest of the sleaze fest that makes up the Trump family.
Truly disgusting.
underpants
(182,804 posts)In the 90's there was a website that actually read the news and the attractive news reader took off her clothes. It would seem the next logical step for Trump and Ailes.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Hey, Palin could be their first news reader!!! She's itching for relevance again, after all, too!
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)And the internet is such a good channel for pron.
I guess that's what I'll wager money on. Long shot. But it has a certain logic to it.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)Who is going to fund him? No US banks are going to loan the deadbeat money. He has insulted Chyna, pissed off Saudi Arabia with his Muslim ban. Pootie is his only investor. And we saw how Glenn beck crashed and burned.
brush
(53,778 posts)considering all his bankruptcies. Ailes of course will be behind the scenes as a consultant because he can't actively participate as that would violate his non-compete clause with FOX.
If this gets off the ground it'll make FOX seem liberal. The country could be pulled apart overtime with the kind of odious programming that would spew into the airwaves.
We've seen what damage FOX and winger talk radio has done. Trumps news would be that on steroids.
Gothmog
(145,242 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)Let him sink more of his children's inheritance. His brand is so toxic now, even the deplorables won't be able to keep this thing afloat for long.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)and the normal ones will leave the party!
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)No woman in their right mind would work for Trump and Ailes. Good lord.
tblue37
(65,357 posts)which is why The Blaze is falling apart.
Trump is at least as loony as Beck--probably more so.