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Trump suggested that he could say to CNN: "I'm not showing up unless you give $10 million to cancer, to this, to that. You pick 10 great charities, $1 million per."
He also mused that he should be paid to show up for interviews.
"They should all pay me for this," Trump told The Hollywood Reporter in August. "I'm doing this for nothing.".
He says he is doing for nothing? Please. He is doing it to promote himself. That's free advertising that usually costs millions in political ads.
I think Trump is trying to avoid going to the debate. He wants to run all his campaign on Twitter. Last time threw tantrums for weeks when they asked him "a tough question"
Well CNN are you going to do it? It is about time that someone is recognizing the Veterans need more then what they are getting now. Everyone is turning the blind eye to them. Instead of saying thank you to them give a hundred to the vets.
There are very few commercial breaks in televised debates. Just 1, maybe 2, in the Fox debates and was mainly for a pee break for the old men. How would you determine profit as opposed to revenue?
If that’s the case why is CNN promoting it every 5 minutes?
I believe that Veterans deserve what they were promised at the time they enlisted. Access to VA healthcare has always been a part of that promise. If we can train, equip, and mobilize hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight the enemy on foreign soil. Then we can make the same effort to provide the benefits promised. No solider should be discharged without first being enrolled in the VA system. If they use that system in the future is a choice they can make. No one should have to die waiting to get into the system. If the politicians had a desire to fix this problem it wouldn't be a problem now. If you can do the discharge paperwork when the solider is no longer useful then the paperwork to enroll them into the VA can be done at the same time. No excuses are acceptable.
If I was CNN I'd tell Trump to go blow himself. It's black mail and a poor precedent to set. What next, will a winning quarter back demand a network donate money to his favorite charity, or other celebrities who go on talk shows do the same? These networks and cable shows are in the business to make money. They have a right to do that. So what if some shows make more than others. I'm sure they help pay for the less-profitable-but-badly-needed media coverage.
Who picked Fox and CNN to run the debates? Does anybody know? it was a bad idea to start with. They should be covering the news, not make the news. RNC should run the debates and invite whoever wants to cover it to show up.
CNN is a private company. It's nobody's business what they do with their profits.
Trump needs to move to Venezuela or Cuba where he can take over the private sector
Or better yet he can donate his own money if he is as wealthy as he claims he is and if he is that concerned about veterans
How much has he donated to veterans causes? Probably zero dollars. Typical Hypocrite telling others to donate to charity when he rarely donates any money himself.
Actually, it reminds me of college football and basketball players. Their schools make a lot of money off of them but they don't get a dime...unless you count scholarships.
In the case of the politicians, in the past and for the majority, you could translate the debate scenario as CNN is giving them free publicity. That would be publicity they would have to pay for in advertising to be able to reach the vast audience that CNN will reach in the debate. So, I think that's a wash.
Trump is saying that their audience will be a lot smaller if he doesn't appear so he wants CNN guy to pony up for the vets. You may not realize this but Trump is doing something else. He's trying to show voters there is a deal to be had and he's the one who initiated it. What if CNN Head Guy says "No way, you first" and Trump says, "I'll pony up $5M if you pony up the other $5M? Then, the deal is made. Trump has now shown voters he knows how to negotiate plus the veteran's organizations get some money, CNN still makes money, the candidates get their free publicity and Trump proves to the voters he's good at deal-making. Everybody wins. Plus, the good will is there between Trump and CNN should Trump become President.
If that’s the case why is CNN promoting it every 5 minutes?
True and quite dramatically, too. There may be less breaks but they may be longer plus there are viewers who will hang around for the after debate and pre-debate analysis.
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Trump is not making any money for performing in the debate, but a large part of it's appeal is because he is participating. CNN is taking advantage of that.
I wonder how much $$$ the participants in Trump's beauty pageants make if they don't win and how much of his profits from those pageants he contributes to charity?
Its all about the Hype right now for all involved.
CNN and all the other Networks know the money/viewership is with the Repug primary and everything surrounding it for the next 12 months.
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