UPDATE: NBC News is reporting that an audio tape supplied by former President Donald Trump’s spokesman shows he didn’t storm off the set of his Piers Morgan interview, as some outlets reported.
The interview with Morgan is part of a marketing campaign to hype the new Talk TV, which bows Monday.
NBC News reports the audio shows the two men thanked each other and laughed at the conclusion of the interview.
“That was a great interview,” Morgan says on the audio.
Trump agrees with a “Yeah.”
“Thank you very much. I really appreciate it,” Morgan says.
EARLIER: Nothing like a past-presidential walkout to plug a new interview series.
Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV has released a promo for Piers Morgan Uncensored, in which the titular host sits down with former POTUS Donald Trump. But the self-proclaimed “most explosive interview of the year” didn’t go as planned — or did it?
Watch the clip, which is fueled by some oddly intense background music, below.
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“I think I’m a very nice man,” Trump posits. “Much more honest than you, actually.” Oooh, burn.
Cut to Morgan saying, likely with an edit, “It was a free and fair election — you lost.”
“Only a fool would think that,” Trump says.
“You think I’m a fool?” the host asks.
“I do now, yeah.”
Trump then gets blustery in the promo, as he is known to do when an interviewer veers into spotlight-stealing. The clip ends with the ex-president mumbling, “Very dishonest,” as he saunters off the set.
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Billed as “a fearless forum for lively, intelligent debate and agenda-setting interview,” Piers Morgan Uncensored debuts Monday. In a first-of-a-kind move, the 60-minute show will be streamed live across Murdoch’s platforms including Fox Nation in the U.S. and Sky News Australia, along with the soon-to-launch British channel that is being positioned as a competitor to BBC News, Sky News and GB News.
Morgan is a former CNN host and anti-woke warrior who quit his job on Good Morning Britain amid a controversy over on-air comments he made about Meghan Markle. Trump is the former host of NBC’s The Apprentice.