Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch was an American politics program hosted by Donny Deutsch and airing on Saturday night at 8 PM eastern time on MSNBC. The program first aired in May 2019 as part of MSNBC's expansion of its weekend programming. Following the August 17, 2019 show MSNBC and Deutsch announced that the show would not be returning in spite of strong ratings in its time slot.
The show was "billed as an interview program with Deutsch interviewing politicians and newsmakers in a one-on-one format, a break from cable news normal fare of punditry panels."[2]
On the night of June 8, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted reactions to the show. He wrote that Deutsch's show "is a disaster" and that Deutsch's claim that he was friends with Trump is "false."[4] He also stated that Deutsch is "a total Loser."[4] Shortly after this, Trump tweeted again that "I know it is not at all ‘Presidential’ to hit back at the Corrupt Media" but that "Problem is, if you don’t hit back, people believe the Fake News is true."[5]
Ratings
The first episode of the show drew 919,000 viewers, placing second for the time slot, ahead of CNN Newsroom but behind Fox News' Watters' World.[6] In the first eight weeks on the air, Deutsch's Saturday Night Politics averaged just 74,000 viewers in the 25–54 demographic bracket.[7]
References
^MSNBC. "Donny Deutsch". MSNBC: Saturday Night Politics. Retrieved 12 June 2019.