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Monday, January 22, 2018

Trump Turns Down NBC 'Super Bowl' Interview


President and former NBC reality-TV star Donald Trump will not sit down with his former network for the traditional pre-Super Bowl Presidential Interview.

According to Deadline-Hollywood, NBC has extended an open invitation to Trump in case he changes his mind.

It’s unclear why Trump has turned down the invitation for what has become a pre-Big Game tradition. Obama did the interview every year of his presidency. Deadline speculate it might be that he doesn’t want a repeat of last year’s interview – the first of Trump’s administration, in which he was interviewed on Fox by his friend and Fox News Channel star Bill O’Reilly; that chat clocked 12.2 million viewers, fewer than Obama’s interviews.

And, of course, Trump is the leader of the anti-NFL movement, having launched an attack in September against players who kneeled in protest during the national anthem.

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