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ABC, CBS Pitch Hissy Fits Over Trump Joking About Staying in WH After 2028

The broadcast networks all broke in Wednesday morning with special reports on President-Elect Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with outgoing President Joe Biden. But it was a comment Trump made earlier in the morning joking about staying in the White House longer than four years that left ABC and CBS bent out of shape.

Speaking to House Republicans at a nearby Washington D.C. hotel, Trump quipped (as per The Hill): “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something. Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”

This left CBS beside itself. 

Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion alluded to it, but it was CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell who was incensed, whining that only “some view that as a joke” and huffed that “Democrats or people that oppose President-Elect Trump would be concerned about a…

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