Donald Trump Calls Roseanne Barr To Secure His Headline On ABC’s Hit Reboot
March 29, 2018Donald Trump Calls Roseanne Barr To Secure His Headline On ABC’s Hit Reboot
President Donald Trump called Roseanne Barr to congratulate her on the huge ratings scored by her ABC sitcom reboot, surprising no one.
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The Master of Making It About Him phoned the outspoken comic/actress and vocal Trump supporter after his advisers, Fox News Channel and Don Jr., spent much of the day praising her for her re-debut’s huge ratings. ABC brought back the comedy series after more than 20 decades off the air, bagging a 5.2 adults 18-49 rating and 18.2 million total viewers – 10% bigger crowd than the original series finale 21 years ago.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders informed the New York Times her former reality-TV star boss called the
sitcom star Wednesday night to commend her success, securing a POTUS headline on this TV story.
Trump was “enthralled” with her ratings, seeing it as a ringing endorsement of himself, NYT reported.
Barr, an outspoken Trump supporter, returned to TV to play Roseanne Connor, now a vocal Trump supporter. The opening episode showed the lose-knit Connor family matriarch having suffered a serious rift with her sister Jackie, played by Laurie Metcalf, because of the 2016 election that ushered Trump into the White House. Jackie voted for Jill Stein.
Trump phoning Roseanne was a mating call to his base: Roseanne delivered its highest ratings were in states he handily carried in the election. Ranking No. 1: Tulsa, Oklahoma – a state Trump won with 65.3% of the vote. Cincinnati, and Kansas City, Missouri followed. Chicago at No. 5 repped the only blue state in the show’s Top 10, but that’s because the sitcom is based there.