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By Tom Boggioni
Published July 16, 2026 11:01AM ET
President Donald Trump's hyped-up plans to address the nation Thursday night might have hit a major roadblock as it remains unclear whether any major television network will actually air him, the Daily Beast is reporting.
Major broadcast networksABC, CBS, and NBCalong with cable outlets including Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have remained silent on whether they intend to preempt regular programming to carry the speech, the Daily Beast reported Thursday morning.
As of Tuesday evening, the Thursday 9 p.m. time slot across networks continued to display "their standard scheduled content," with no indication that coverage would be interrupted for the presidential address.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-speech-2677232505/
Hey Traitor with a capital T you do realize that Russia had a hand in the election in 2016 correct......here I will even give you the page to look it up............
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-2016-u-s-elections
and just for giggles do you remember that you had Russian spies in the White House and you were enjoying a joke in 2017..........here lets bring back those times.............
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39931012
And just think John Roberts and the gang of 5 in maga land granted you immunity from violating the Espionage Act................and you want to go on tv and spew some more horseshit............your a traitor in my book........
dalton99a
(96,688 posts)turbinetree
(27,912 posts)rampartd
(5,975 posts)he'd do that every day.
Raven123
(8,109 posts)But it wont matter since the entire speech will be an obscenity.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,854 posts)I would think there wouldnt be any doubt of their obedience.
Dave Bowman
(7,646 posts)paleotn
(23,290 posts)If so, it must be pretty damn bad.
bucolic_frolic
(56,555 posts)NCDem47
(3,592 posts)I think it might work. At last from broadcast networks (and FOX is network...local affiliate...not FOX News on cable). Cable news will be a sewer with that crap. Though, they can tear it appart afterward with the pundits.
You already see the FCC tryint to apply pressure and threats to networks. But if one or two fall...they'll all go togther.
eppur_se_muova
(43,065 posts)... it's a long trip to the studio so he can't spend much time in the Oval Office.
calimary
(91,787 posts)And the rest of us can just avoid that channel altogether!
ultralite001
(2,909 posts)Shut off the power...
Otherwise...
ImNotGod
(1,382 posts)niyad
(135,969 posts)MiHale
(13,336 posts)I would tune into the explosive rant if not one network picks up his speech. It would be epic
it could literally kill him.
Not one network covering his speech
itll never happen.
Katinfl
(965 posts)Cannot give him air time to spew his lies and let it go as if it were the truth. Magats will believe from him.
BWdem4life
(3,195 posts)Just run a continuous chyron saying "Everything you are listening to right now is false."
Endlessmike56
(270 posts)LogDog75
(1,512 posts)It will be interesting to see what CBS does. Does Bari Weiss have enough power to overrule the entertainment division of CBS where their real money is made.
FakeNoose
(43,475 posts)I mean it, if everyone in the USA turns off their TV sets at approximately 9:05 p.m. the news media will all get the message loud and clear. I don't even watch much TV, but I will tonight, just so I can turn it OFF at the time he starts talking.
OGBuzz
(1,055 posts)hay rick
(9,846 posts)The large media organizations have been straddling the line between failure to inform and outright betrayal. They are now stuck in the bottom of a credibility hole that they dug for themselves, leaving them a choice between bad and worse options. No tears.
twodogsbarking
(20,153 posts)tonekat
(2,617 posts)But, we know CBS will acquiesce.
He'll look worse after this liefest.
senseandsensibility
(26,270 posts)and when CNN has something it is going to air live it always shows graphics for days ahead of time about when it will air.
Mysterian
(6,804 posts)Millions are sure to get blitzed in drinking games.
Every time he says communist -- take a shot!
Totally Tunsie
(12,276 posts)sedwin
(6 posts)This will be more whining by a man who lost in 2020. He had dozens of court cases who all ruled the claims were ridiculous. Fox News had to pay $785.5 million in fines for pushing Trumps lies and it's very funny that Trump, as always, never complains about any election he or his fellow Republican's win only about when they lose. I've literally know 4 year olds who throw fewer tantrums and lie far less than this adjudicated rapist, convicted fraudster and credibly accused pedophile.
boonecreek
(1,567 posts)On TV Tonight and Titan TV both show their regularly scheduled programming.
Usually by this time they would be showing "Presidential Address". This includes
PBS and Fox. That's Fox TV, not the Fox News Channel.