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An interview with the president during the game before the Super Bowl returned on Sunday President Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox News’ Brett Bayer. It was the first time the president has sat with the network hosting the Super Bowl since Joe Biden did it on NBC in 2022.
After all, we haven’t missed anything.
Only a portion of Saturday’s pre-recorded interview with Trump — about seven minutes — aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl game. The rest will air tonight at Baier’s Fox News Show in Eastern at 6pm.
In the part that aired before the match on Sunday, Baier eased the interview by asking Trump why he wanted to be the first seat president to attend the Super Bowl. And Trump said he was surprised to learn that, like many of us (including me), he was the first sitting president to become the country’s biggest sporting event. .
Baier then took office in Trump’s first few weeks, trying to ask Trump about some pushbacks (including lawsuits) of what he was trying to do early in his second administration. Baier got right at the heart of it by asking Trump about Elon Musk.
Trump said Musk “gets nothing” in his role as head of the newly created government’s efficiency department. Trump added: He’s hooked on it. ”
Baier asks about Trump’s proposed tariffs, then moves to his best question in this segment, Trump, if everything goes to the plan, some relief when the family goes to the grocery store or gas pump Ask what you can feel.
But Trump gave Baier’s ununderstandable answers that he didn’t address. Baier did not follow up. Or, if so, it was edited from a segment that ran in the air. Either way, Baier and Fox News could be the majority of his campaign and choked up as a missed opportunity to pin the president to what he shunned in Sunday’s segment.
Baier then raised another decent question, asking about linking a country divided into Trump. And once again, Trump went out for a rambling answer.
It really didn’t answer Baier’s questions and was about trance people and sports instead. Again, there is no follow-up for Baier. So, again, I missed the opportunity.
Overall, at least regarding some of the interviews on Sunday, Baier tried to ask some solid questions, but Trump covered them, Baier didn’t follow up, or his follow-up was edited .
A Super Bowl interview should be a combination of policy questions and fun things. That’s how these interviews evolved. But in the end, a considerable amount of work by Trump, Bayer and Fox News wasted the opportunity to reach a large audience, the overall point of the Super Bowl pre-game interview.
In his status newsletter, media reporter Oliver Darcy said Bayer “robbed a lot of softballs” on Trump.
I’ll see if tonight’s part of Baier’s show is better, but I think the best part was included in the pre-game of Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Has the game broken the 123.7 million record of the highest viewer record set last year?
I’m starting to look into it today. My guess is that it’s just shorter, Many people predict That Sunday’s game breaks the record when numbers are added.
Later in the week we will analyze viewership numbers and check what everyone is saying about Fox Sports and lead analyst Tom Brady’s performance.
Elon Musk (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) displayed here on January 20th in Washington DC
Time Magazine had an interesting cover last week. Photoshopped Elon Musk sits behind an oval office desk.
CNN’s Liam Riley called it “A provocative move aimed at robbing President Donald Trump of his rage.” “The simple cover, sandwiched between the president’s desk and the flag of the United States and the president, shows off musk and coffee in his hand, is clearly displayed on a red background. Simon Schuster and Brian -Bennett’s accompanying work delves deep into Musk’s ruthless campaign that left “to put millions of government workers in the mercy of masks.” ”
When asked about the cover last week, Trump told reporters: I didn’t know that either. ” (Trump interviewed him at the time he was named 2024 Person of the Year more than two months ago).
Trump is usually not kindly accepted by the person performing him. And there were many who thought it was only a matter of time before Trump got bored of musk. In fact, some are surprised that Trump and Musk’s egos allowed them to coexist for such a long time.
but, Ezra Klein’s latest podcast for the New York Timesmasks, the tech industry, and everyone’s well-known journalist Kara Swish says he’s looking for a Trump Mask relationship that will last for a while.
Swisher said: I hear that from a lot of people. And I think that’s absolutely true – the mask is probably inspiring. At the same time, Trump loves money. That’s his heart. I think Donald Trump thinks he’s useful, and he’s useful for Donald Trump. He is a convenient junk dog. And he has a lot of money. So, if Trump is being hugged against these senators, Musk is going to give him money to take them out. He has a bank that is essentially never ending.
“He also knows he needs to get into power. What does it look like when they fight? I don’t want Elon Musk outside the tent. That’s really bad for Elon Musk. It’s the place. And angry – because he shows that he has the ability to fight back.
“So it could last for a while, and he was able to do more and more strange things and behave in more and more strange ways. Trump has the infinite abilities of: “Ah, did he say racist? I don’t care.’ So I think it can last for a very long time.”
You definitely need to check out Klein’s conversation with Swisher. It’s a spicy interview – a very spicy interview. Knowing hers, Swisher has cruelly honest thoughts about Trump, Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others. Her comments are eye-opening, humorous, and sometimes totally scary.
You can read the transcript and listen to the show here.
Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Randi Moss came back emotionally to ESPN on Sunday, two months after resigning to treat cancer.
Moss is back on the set for “Sunday NFL Countdown.” This featured videos with messages from various ESPN personalities and other sports stars, including Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
Moss said, shedding tears. I’m happy to be here. ”
It has been the first time it has appeared on Moss’ ESPN since December 6th. ESPN wrote“The following week on Instagram Live, he introduced himself as a cancer survivor, explaining that a cancer tumor was discovered between the pancreatic tumor and the liver. He put a stent on the liver on Thanksgiving. He said he had surgery to put him in and had six hours of treatment to remove the cancer. Moss said he would undergo radiation and chemotherapy.”
Longtime respected sports writer Ed Hinton, who specialised in covering motorsports for both sports illustrators and ESPN, has passed away. He was 76 years old.
Hinton retired in 2014 after a 47-year career that also included a stint with the Tribune Company and the Orlando Sentinel. He covered multiple sports, but was best known for covering cars.
Associated Press auto racing writer Jenna Flyer told ESPN“Ed Hinton doesn’t approve of the obituary and nothing meets his standards. He certainly won’t be able to withstand anything that doesn’t include sweating, oaths and smoking. They are true. , Ed believed in journalism. He was a stereotypical sportswriter, but ordered the subject he covered. He was not looking for friends. He was demanding facts. And he should remember how tough it is for motorsports, particularly surrounding Dale Earnhardt’s death.”
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