Well, the art of the Sunday morning interview reached a new dark low yesterday.

Nothing has damaged the genre more than the Donald Trump Sunday morning interview.

Donald Trump just desecrated that Sunday morning TV liturgy when he turned to politics.

Donald Trump knows that the most important thing on commercial television is, of course,

the commercial.

The commercials are those immovable granite blocks that frame every television discussion.

And Donald Trump knew that all he had to do to beat every Sunday morning TV interviewer at the game

was to keep spewing nonsense until the so-called interview would crash into that immovable object,

the TV commercial, and the interviewer would be out of time, and the interviewer would lose

once again. When Donald Trump became a presidential candidate, he quickly became the most

valuable Sunday morning guest one of those shows could have because the show that had Donald

Trump that weekend would win the ratings race that weekend.

And so the desperation to book Donald Trump knew no bounds.

Donald Trump smelled that deprivation and used it to become the first guest in the history of those shows to literally phone it in.

Donald Trump became the first Sunday morning guest who didn't have to show up. We don't know if he was in pajamas when he was

doing those phone interviews on the Sunday morning shows during his first presidential campaign,

but we do know that we learned absolutely nothing from any one of those interviews,

so-called interviews of Donald Trump. Every one of them was a failure, a complete failure.

Not one moment in the Sunday morning interviews had the slightest impact on the presidential campaign.

Donald Trump has become harder to get on Sunday

morning, but the desperation remains and I guess deepens. And so yesterday morning, CNN presented

a so-called interview with CNN that they can't even prove was Donald Trump. They called it breaking news.

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