88% of viewers say Piers Morgan was too soft on Donald Trump in "sycophantic" ITV "love-in" interview
"Feel like I’ve just watched two people engaging in foreplay and now I need to bleach my eyes and scrub my skin off..."
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Choosing the hashtag #TrumpMorgan to promote his ITV interview with US president Donald Trump, Piers Morgan was clearly hoping it would go down as a modern-day Frost/Nixon, yet for the majority of viewers it wasn’t quite the in-depth, hard-hitting face-off that implied.
https://twitter.com/m0dernworld/status/957742614824046594
In fact, a whopping 88% of those polled on Sunday night by RadioTimes.com said Morgan was not tough enough on Trump.
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/957750858942427136
Many of those commenting on Twitter found the "love-in" between Morgan and his "great friend" an uncomfortable watch that failed to press Trump on any of the important issues...
https://twitter.com/Moriarty306/status/957748412811759617
https://twitter.com/misshjones93/status/957746683823165440
https://twitter.com/Pollyolivia/status/957745626929946625
Some found it really uncomfortable...
https://twitter.com/Dtc1245Dc/status/957748039611027457
https://twitter.com/sueperkins/status/957737209112743937
On Facebook it was a similar story.
"The most sycophantic interview I have ever lived through," wrote Collins Chidimuro, "and I grew up on a diet of Robert Mugabe interviews with the Zimbabwe state broadcaster. Shameful."
"They just seemed to be kissing each other’s behinds," noted John Wyres-Smith.
In the interests of balance we worked hard to dig out some positive reactions, although they were wildly outnumbered by the negative.
https://twitter.com/AndrewJohnKidd/status/957746357334347776
https://twitter.com/ashnahurynag/status/957738542523920390
https://twitter.com/MyBump2Baby/status/957749340583448579
This guy must have found them too...
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/957748139364057089
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