2020 ELECTION/MEDIA: “ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him…
Fox News Channel and CNN aired the president’s full address, after which CNN’s Anderson Cooper said Trump was ‘like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun realizing his time was over.’
Network personalities had sharply criticized Trump after his angry, middle-of-the-night speech following Election Day but aired that talk in full. Trump was more subdued Thursday, yet offered a litany of complaints about ‘suppression’ polls, mail-in voting and fraud that he never specified.”
-David Bauder, “Networks cut away from Trump’s White House address,” apnews.com, Nov. 6, 2020