<tinfoil hat>The local affiliate probably did that just to make people annoyed with Trump for interfering with their nightly TV watching. They can get people to turn off before he even starts talking.</tinfoil hat>
CNN pretends to adhere to strict Trump coverage rules. The theory is that the careless coverage the first time he ran helped him win. They are committed to not airing anything that can make Trump look good.
In fairness to Tapper, I had our local NBC affiliate on yesterday afternoon. “Jeopardy” is usually on, and my elderly mother likes that.
It was literally at least a half-hour of just overhead motorcade footage. No news, nothing significant, just cars driving.
The heck with that.
<tinfoil hat>The local affiliate probably did that just to make people annoyed with Trump for interfering with their nightly TV watching. They can get people to turn off before he even starts talking.</tinfoil hat>
Honestly, that is probably true, especially because I doubt they would even air Trump talking
NK levels of propaganda. CNN is a Dear Leader channel for Bi-Din.
Butthurt and assmad
I think he trolled them. They would not cover anything they considered a campaign stop. But he knew they were going to follow him that day.
CNN pretends to adhere to strict Trump coverage rules. The theory is that the careless coverage the first time he ran helped him win. They are committed to not airing anything that can make Trump look good.