Donald Trump & Tucker Carlson’s GOP Debate Counter-Programming Full Of Fox & CNN Digs, Jeffrey Epstein, & A Lot Of Self-Pity

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Jumping the gun on Fox News’ GOP debate tonight, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson made it clear to Rupert Murdoch that revenge is a dish best served online.

Running like an incumbent with no desire to share the spotlight with Vice Presidents wannabes, Trump easily dominated the debate by never showing up. “It’s debate night, but we’re not in Milwaukee,” Carlson proclaimed at the top of the video with a sour looking Trump by his side. “We’re doing this interview, but we’ll get bigger ratings using this crazy forum that you’re using than probably the debate,” said the former POTUS and leading candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination to the former FNC Golden Boy on their pre-recorded chat that debut on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter at 5:55 PM PST, five minutes before the live debate began.

While the days of 24 million tuning into a Republican contenders debate on Fox in 2015 are likely long gone, Trump’s boast to Carlson of the much-hyped counter programming reflect the former’s obsession with the increasingly outdate metric as a sign of his power and influence.

Long fueled by grievance, both Trump and Tucker clearly wanted to show their old cable news home they didn’t need Fox anymore, and that the center of conservative political power had shifted with their gravitational pull.