Leftist “The Younger Turks” co-host and longtime anti-Trumper Cenk Uygur admitted that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory earlier this month brings him “optimistic.”
Uygur, who routinely railed in opposition to Trump for years on his progressive on-line discuss present, posted to his X account on Friday that he had accepted Trump’s win as a result of it meant that “the institution” had been defeated.
“I have been making an attempt to determine why I am extra optimistic now than I used to be earlier than the election, although I used to be so in opposition to the man who gained. I do know now. MAGA shouldn’t be my mortal enemy (and neither is the acute left). My mortal enemy is the institution. And so they have been defeated!” he wrote.
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Cenk Uygur, host of “The Younger Turks,” admitted on Friday he is feeling “optimistic” following President-elect Trump’s win. (Seb Daly/Sportsfile by way of Getty Photographs)
The purpose represents a notable turnaround for the progressive host who, simply weeks earlier than the election, was calling Trump an “unstable madman” throughout an episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
Through the British journalist’s common net present, Uygur trotted out varied anti-Trump speaking factors. “He thinks we should always terminate our Structure. He had no drawback trampling our democracy. I’m not letting that clown are available right here and destroy this nation,” he instructed Morgan and his visitor panel.
However on Friday, Uygur appeared happy that not solely the “institution candidate” was overwhelmed, however that the mainstream media suffered a serious blow as effectively.
In a follow-up X publish he added, “It is not simply that the institution candidate misplaced, it is that their media is mortally wounded. The supply of their energy was not insipid politicians like Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden. The supply of their energy was their propaganda machine – the mainstream media.”
He continued, noting that impartial media is now freer following Trump’s win.
“Now, on-line media is powerful sufficient that their oppressive monopoly on the American thoughts has been damaged. Now, we’re within the jungle. They hate that! I adore it! This uncontrolled market of concepts is the place I am dwelling. I would slightly be within the populist woods than an institution jail.”
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Uygur claimed that Trump’s win was additionally a win for “impartial media” like Joe Rogan’s podcast. (Screenshots/The Joe Rogan Expertise)
Varied commentators and the Trump marketing campaign itself have credited impartial media for the president-elect’s victory on Election Day. Forward of the vote, then-candidate Trump selected to look on common podcasts and take interviews with main influencers, together with Joe Rogan, The Nelk Boys, and others.
Trump leaning into podcasts this election cycle, versus conventional media interviews, paid off amongst Gen Z males and millennials. The Fox Information Voter Survey printed earlier this month discovered that males aged 18-44 supported Trump at 53% in comparison with Vice President Kamala Harris’ 45%.
Ex-Younger Turks alum Jimmy Dore wasn’t satisfied of his former colleague’s new stance, posting on X, “Cenk is a phony & a keen propagandist who’s a most cancers on the political discourse in America.”
Uygur made headlines earlier this month for calling out presidential historian Allan Lichtman on Morgan’s discuss present for getting his 2024 election prediction incorrect together with his well-known “Key to the White Home” prediction mannequin.
The historian had predicted that Harris would win.
“Look, I debated Professor Lichtman earlier than. I instructed him his theories concerning the keys are absurd. I used to be proper. He was incorrect. I mentioned he’d lose his keys,” Uygur instructed the panel about Lichtman, who was current as effectively.
Lichtman fired again, “No, you weren’t proper, and I used to be not incorrect!” Lichtman interrupted. “And that is an affordable shot. And I cannot stand for it.”
Fox Information Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
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