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CBS Cuts Off Trump’s National Emergency Speech For ‘The Price Is Right’ and Everyone Cheers
CBS cut away from Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border on Friday to return to its regularly scheduled programming of “The Price is Right” on the East Coast…and people on Twitter were very supportive of the move.
All of the broadcast and cable news networks carried the declaration and press conference that followed, with only CBS deciding to cut away after 21 minutes before the event was complete.
Trump spoke from the Rose Garden of the White House to announce he was declaring a national emergency at the border to build barriers to guard against illegal immigration.
“I am going to be signing a national emergency,” Trump said after the announcement was delayed from its original 10:30 a.m. start.
“It’s a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people,” the president said in seeking to justify the need for an emergency declaration.
After 21 minutes, CBS just cut away from Trump’s speech and has gone back to the Price Is Right.
— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) February 15, 2019
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The Trump announcement from the Rose Garden of the White House was delayed from its original 10:30 AM eastern time start. Trump said he was declaring the emergency “because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people.”
CBS News reported that the White House assured the network Trump’s speech would be no longer than eight minutes. But Trump started at 1:10 PM and finished at 2 PM.
Twitter has some thoughts:
About time media realizes they are being played like fools! Good job @CBS
— Wes Lum (@wesleylum) February 15, 2019
Shout out to CBS to cutting away from Trump’s nonsense to broadcast The Price is Right. After seeing this clip, it would have been a crime not to. pic.twitter.com/3CIM7zl6Ey
— laney (@misslaneym) February 16, 2019
In the midst of Trump's big lie-fest about his #FakeNationalEmergency today, CBS cut in and decided to run "The Price is Right" instead.
Way to go @CBSNews
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) February 15, 2019
Quite possibly my favorite headline…like ever.
CBS Goes With ‘The Price Is Right’ Over Conclusion Of President Trump’s Emergency Speech
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) February 16, 2019
This is great! CBS cut away from covering the #FakeTrumpEmergency so Americans could watch people try to guess how much a blender cost on "The Price is Right." Seems like a good idea!
Donald Trump is taking on the role of an old ham actor who can no longer draw in the crowds.
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) February 15, 2019
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