‘Gutfeld!’ Scores Highest Ratings In Program History For Trump Appearance

Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” show scored its highest ratings in the program’s history when former President Donald Trump stopped by this week for the entire show.

On Wednesday night, Trump made a guest appearance on the Greg Gutfeld talk show alongside regulars like Kat Timpf and Tyrus, where it averaged 4.9 million total viewers, Fox News reported.

In the coveted age demographic of 25-54, the same hour had 744,000 viewers, the outlet noted. It was the program’s largest audience in both the key demo and total viewers since its launch in 2021.

Trump’s appearance was not only the largest on “Gutfeld!,” but also the show’s total viewership was the biggest in all of cable and broadcast primetime, beating out ABC’s “The Golden Bachelorette” and CBS’ “Survivor.”

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During the hour-long program, Trump reflected on both assassination attempts against him — the one in Butler, Pennsylvania, at his rally in July where he was shot in the ear, leaving one supporter dead and two others injured, as well as on Sunday, when a 58-year-old man hid out for 12 hours near Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, allegedly to take a shot at him.

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Gutfeld asked the former president about his golf game and Trump joked, “Well, I haven’t been thinking about it too much lately. I always said golf is a very dangerous game.”

“Especially if they’re playing with you,” Gutfeld quipped.

“Yeah, it’s true,” Trump said. “It’s pretty sad.”

“If they had told you that the shooter was there, would you have tried to take him out with your 3 wood?” Gutfeld later asked Trump.

“I think so,” Trump responded. “If I knew. Actually, the Secret Service did a great job. They saw the barrel of a gun — big gun — and it came out through bushes. And how many people would see that? He really was exceptional to have done it.”

During Trump’s appearance, the president also reacted to clips of celebrities slamming him in a segment titled, “Celebs can’t quit Donald Trump.” In one clip, Gutfeld played radio shock jock Howard Stern, who made news this week when he said that he didn’t hate Trump, just those who vote for the former president.

Trump then replied, “Well I watch and know most of them,” noting his long history of being on Stern’s show for a big part of the radio host’s career. “He [Stern] was great at that time, then he went woke.”

The former president’s appearance was his first on broadcast or cable late-night during an election cycle since 2016 when he was on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the outlet noted.

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