A little bit of subliminal advertising maybe by ABC? During David Muir’s snotty interview with Donald Trump on ABC last night, it seems ABC also aired a promo for one of there shows that features the president being shot. The show is called Designated Survivor and doesn’t air on ABC until March. Yet they used the Trump interview in January to promote the series, and only the part of the president being shot.
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The clip is a promo for episode 11 of the ABC show Designated Survivor, in which Kiefer Sutherland plays an obscure cabinet secretary who is “unexpectedly thrust into the presidency after an attack at the capitol during a State of the Union address.”
The scene shows the fictional president attending the swearing in of a Congressman before a gunshot is heard and panic ensues.
“Who took the bullet?” asks the promo before the scene cuts to a hospital as surgeons operate on the victim.
Viewers did not find out in the previous cliffhanger episode if the president in the show was shot or if someone else “took the bullet,” although the implication that the president could have been the victim is clear.
One viewer complained to Infowars that he thought the airing of the ad during the interview with Trump was “distasteful”.
The idea of Trump being assassinated has repeatedly been invoked by commentators, journalists and television networks.
Quite the contrast wouldn’t you say compared to Obama’s first set of interviews after first winning the presidency? Remember back then when Brian Williams actually bowed to Obama? Thinks have changed quite a bit in eight years.