Highest Impeachment rating in history ? (satire)
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Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Boasts That His Impeachment Will Get Higher TV Ratings Than All Other Impeachments
By Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Donald Trump boasted that, if he is impeached, the television ratings will be higher than those of any other impeachment in history.
“Everywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they’re going to watch it,” he said. “The ratings are going to be through the roof.”
He said that he expected his impeachment ratings to be “many, many times” the size of the audience for Bill Clinton’s impeachment, in 1998.
“It’s not even going to be close,” Trump said. “The ratings for Bill Clinton’s impeachment were a joke.”
Asked about the recent impeachment of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Trump said, “Did anyone even watch that one? That was Korea. Nobody cares.”
As for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he said, “I didn’t hear about that one. I don’t follow Brazil.
I like Argentina. I saw ‘Evita’ many, many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber did a great job. Millions and millions of people loved it. But that was a Broadway show, not an impeachment.”
Even though he anticipates “just terrific” ratings for his impeachment,
Trump said that he did not expect the media to provide an honest accounting of his audience size.
“They’re going to lie and say that a lot of people who watched my impeachment didn’t watch,
and that’s going to be very bad and unfair,
but it’s not going to change the fact that my impeachment will be a great impeachment, a really beautiful impeachment,” he said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,”
and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Boasts That His Impeachment Will Get Higher TV Ratings Than All Other Impeachments
By Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Donald Trump boasted that, if he is impeached, the television ratings will be higher than those of any other impeachment in history.
“Everywhere I go, people tell me that if I am impeached, they’re going to watch it,” he said. “The ratings are going to be through the roof.”
He said that he expected his impeachment ratings to be “many, many times” the size of the audience for Bill Clinton’s impeachment, in 1998.
“It’s not even going to be close,” Trump said. “The ratings for Bill Clinton’s impeachment were a joke.”
Asked about the recent impeachment of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Trump said, “Did anyone even watch that one? That was Korea. Nobody cares.”
As for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, he said, “I didn’t hear about that one. I don’t follow Brazil.
I like Argentina. I saw ‘Evita’ many, many times. Andrew Lloyd Webber did a great job. Millions and millions of people loved it. But that was a Broadway show, not an impeachment.”
Even though he anticipates “just terrific” ratings for his impeachment,
Trump said that he did not expect the media to provide an honest accounting of his audience size.
“They’re going to lie and say that a lot of people who watched my impeachment didn’t watch,
and that’s going to be very bad and unfair,
but it’s not going to change the fact that my impeachment will be a great impeachment, a really beautiful impeachment,” he said.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,”
and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.
Yes, give the people what they want, is a motto of show biz,
The TV ratings would far exceed 'The Apprentice'.
"Break a leg Don, No, really."
Indeed, ticket prices for the trial might set record highs on Stub hub.
"See the greatest show on earth. This will not be held over."
"The presidency may hang in the balance."
Comments (5)
Andy captures The Don's speech pattern well.
During the debates, I had a running game going with a friend...
What superlative would The Don use most.
'Amazing' (mine
She went with 'Terrific'
During one of the primary debates he used 'lie, lying or liar' something like 60 some times...mainly referring to 'Lyin' Ted' Cruz.
He also used 'Little Marco' Rubio a few times.
Marco countered a couple times with 'Big Don'.
Mind you - these were REPUBLICAN debates
If those debates are any indication of what we might expect during an impeachment, it would attract viewership bigly.
He could make a killing with a percentage deal with the networks.
of the USA taxpayers.
Hold it in a pro football stadium.
His percentage would put him in Putin's league - something like $1/3 Trillion.
That's not a typo...it really is illion with 'Tr'
The Gov't gets a fantastically amazing slice of the pie...national debt paid waayyy down.
VOILA! America Is Great Again
I'm getting a seven figure cut myself - for coming up with the 'stadium' concept.
That bit of information will fill my inbox muy pronto, you betcha!