There was a time when every Fox News reporter who interviewed failed, one-term former President Donald Trump made an effort to defer to him and indulge even his wildest conspiracy theories.
But those days are long gone, as soon becomes clear from excerpts of an interview Trump gave to Piers Morgan for the streaming service Fox Nation.
A clip of the interview was made public by The New York Post on Wednesday, and in it Morgan tells Trump the 2020 election was “free and fair” and reminds him, “You lost!”
In response, a sweaty, agitated Trump remarks:
“Only a fool would think that.”
Morgan asks, “You think I’m a fool?”
The twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president responds:
“I do now, yes.”
At the end of the clip, Trump ends the interview prematurely:
“Turn the camera off. Very dishonest.”
The full interview will air on Monday, April 25.
Morgan said afterwards the person he interviewed was very different than the man he met years ago:
“Normally, he’d greet me with a cheery smile and the words, ‘How’s my champ?,’ because I was his first ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ on the series that made him a TV superstar. But this time, there were no such welcoming niceties. I’d never seen him so livid or felt so uncomfortable in his presence as I did right now in his office. He was almost foaming at the mouth and kept shaking his head slowly and menacingly at me, like Don Corleone when he felt he’d been disrespected.”
As you’d expect, the MAGA faithful were enraged by the clip, and they vented their impotent rage on Morgan.
