“60 Minutes” CBS News chief Bari Weiss really thought she’d get 10 million viewers out of the Donald Trump interview on Sunday.
Instead, she got an estimated 7.8 million people who had the time or interest.
That’s down around 25% from the prior week.
Weiss gave conservative correspondent Ross Douthat, one of her Free Press columnists, two segments of nodding and trying to interrupt a Trump filibuster. No one was having it.
It will be interesting to the the half hour breakdowns because I’m sure the second segment dropped off like crazy.
Trump just lied and obfuscated, and Douthat never really got suitable answers about the damage and destruction caused by this malevolent leader.
Adding to the ratings was having no big NFL lead-in game. The KC Chiefs – NY Jets game would have been perfect but it ended three hours earlier.
Again, the core 60 Minutes viewer is not stupid, and knows the history of Trump and Weiss and the Ellisons and Trump’s 60 Minutes lawsuit. They knew Douthat wouldn’t do any damage in advance. And they were right.
