Welcome, everybody.

You know things are getting bad when the view, a show that is basically coffee, gossip

and yelling about Trump, gets told by ABC executives, you've got to take down the Trump criticism a notch.

According to multiple reports, ABC News presidents, I don't, this is going to be a tough one.

Alman Karamamedovic sat down with the co-hosts and said less Trump, more celebrities.

Disney CEO Bob Eiger reportedly backed it up as well. Disney owns ABC.

This is not a show changing direction.

This is part of a much darker story that we have to talk about.

And it involves, yes, some corporate cowardice, although some

corporate fear is understandable, authoritarian pressure from the Trump administration,

and the slow suffocation of a free press that has even started to hit independent media shows,

like the David Pacman show. ABC is not going to move away from the Trump stuff

because ratings are down. In fact, they're not. The view is beating Fox in the same time

slot and pulling, pulling great numbers from the key demographic that advertisers want to be

marketing to. What's happening here is that ABC is being pressured because Trump is actively trying to break the press that is critical of him.

And big media executives are mostly folding.

Now, we saw yesterday on yesterday's show video of that meeting in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, where Trump started flipping out on NBC's Peter Alexander because Alexander had the

audacity to say, what about this white genocide thing that doesn't really exist but that you keep

talking about?

What about the plane that you're accepting from Qatar?

And Trump said, these pointed questions are fake news.

He doesn't want pointed questions.

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