Trump Beats Bush!

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From today's New York Times:

The president's aides had intended to begin the (news conference) at 8:30 Eastern Daylight Time, which - had NBC covered it live - would have delayed the start of Mr. Trump's "Apprentice" show at 9 o'clock, something the network was loath to do.

After lobbying by NBC executives, the White House announced that it had agreed to move the president's starting time to 8 o'clock. That enabled NBC to show the president live while protecting Mr. Trump at 9 and the start of the highly-rated "E.R." show at 10.

At first I found this troubling, but then I realized Bush's "news conference" was nothing more than an informercial anyway. The White House is lucky the networks didn't air it at two in the morning right before Ron Popeil.