NEW YORK (AP) – One of the ironies in this season of Trump is that the man who publicly mocked “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd for low ratings was responsible for Todd’s best ratings ever on the show.
NBC hopes that numbers for the recent Sunday where Todd interviewed Donald Trump from Iowa aren’t just an outlier. Todd has some momentum at his one-year anniversary at “Meet the Press,” reimagining a show that began in 1947 while preparing for a new weekday role at MSNBC.
First things first, though. Todd said nothing to Trump about the rough Twitter treatment and, since the Republican presidential front-runner came on his show, the candidate didn’t hold a grudge.
Earlier in the year, Trump dubbed Todd “sleepy eyes” and tweeted that he’s killing NBC in the ratings. “So many people have told me that I should host Meet the Press and replace the moron who is on now,” Trump tweeted.
It’s tough to do the job if you let this sort of thing get to you, Todd said.