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Morgan, Savage’s Trump Remorse Is Too Little, Too Late

It shouldn’t have taken them this long to see Trump is a disaster

Manny Otiko
4 min readMay 7, 2020
Piers Morgan (Digital Photos/Flickr)

As President Donald Trump continues to blunder through the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed about 70,000 American to date, some of his staunch supporters have finally had enough.

Recently British media personality Piers Morgan has come out against Trump. Morgan, who counted himself as Trump’s personal friend, appeared on “Celebrity Apprentice” and has conducted fawning interviews with the president.

But the coronavirus debacle has proven to be a bridge too far. In an interview with CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Morgan said he’s watched Trump’s daily White House briefings “with mounting horror.”

He also said Trump’s self-absorbed performances could cost him the election.

“Donald Trump is failing the American people,” added Morgan.

Morgan can be a pompous ass but he occasionally offers incisive commentary. For example, when he hosted a show on CNN, he lit…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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