According to a story in The Hill today, Donald Trump‘s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly contacted a top dealmaker in the media industry within the past couple of months about creating a Trump television network.
According to the story Trump is mulling the idea of creating a cable channel as his personal media company.
The publication said Trump had talked about a “mini-media conglomerate” for the “audience” after his presidential campaign.
SO that brings us to Trump.tv and or TrumpTv.com
Trump.TV is owned by someone who is directing it to Trump.org which ridicules The Donald for not buying Trump.TV “when it was “at public auction” (although the site does not say when it was in public auction)
“Days after I won this domain at public auction I received a letter from Trump attorney’s threatening to sue me for trademark infringement for purchasing this domain.
Guess who still owns the domain… not that guy.”
Trumptv.com seems to forward to Fabtv.com although I’m not sure I see the connection.
Either way it will be interesting to see if Trump offers to buy either of those domains (or both) or attacks them through the UDRP system in which he has won over 100 domain names that contain the word “Trump”.
Tnn.com is better.
It’s interesting that a domain name can literally function as a TV channel now, with live broadcasting 24 hours a day, plus video archives.
I don’t know how much the price tag for Politics.com would be, but whoever acquires it will have a great podium to speak from.
Trump.TV looks so much better! But also buy the .com and forward it to the .tv for those that type in .com
I’ve commented on this issue before. If you have acquired or purchased any domain with the letters trump in the domain, then save yourself a lot of headaches and drop them now. Trump has a stable of attorney’s that will come after you with a vengeance! He will not buy a domain with trump in the domain, but will defend his trademark. Forget trying a JV, that will also not work. I have personally been on the losing end of trying to register and acquire trump related names, and I was quickly shut down. IMHO, save yourself the grief.
Trump is a dictionary term for a valuable card in a card game. Existed before “Little Hands” was even born…
You can build your own TV channel, but you must do it LEGALLY.
Hi, Aaron, I agree with you but, what about naming the TV Channel TRUMPSFORMER.COM?
I keep seeing this Trump News Network fantasy peddled.
The only people dumb enough to watch a Trump news channel would be the current denizens of Fox. Many rational people think Trump is a sociopath, however I suggest you wait to see the what happens to Trump if he goes from being a useful idiot to trying to take the $1.6B Fox profit out of Rupert Murdoch’s pocket.
“High energy”. 85 year old Rupe is going to bury him so deep it’ll be like he’s given Trump a free vacation to his home country of Australia.
With Ailes gone (and informally advising Trump) Fox is already heading toward a civil war. Pick up the pieces that come out of Fox, add a heaping helping of Alex Jones, and there will be millions of people in the next election demanding to know what we are going to do about alien lizard-people invaders.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin’s $10 a month streaming channel lasted, what, a couple of months?
But who could resist watching this for hours:
@John Berryhill,
People think you’re joking with that Alex Jones clip. But the bizarre truth is that we’ve got a presidential candidate who gets his “facts” about the world – to the extent that he reads anything ever – from conspiracy-theory websites like InfoWars.com and Breitbart.com. When Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is using performance-enhancing drugs in order to beat him in debates, Trump specifically CITES Alex Jones. Cites InfoWars. As if it were the New York Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivJGmyNlQuU
Quote: “Just like the Bible says, it’s basically an intergalactic invasion into this space through people. I’m telling you, it’s what all the ancients said; it’s what they warned of. It’s what we’re dealing with. They’re demons. They’re frickin’ inter-dimensional invaders, ok. I’ll just say it. Make fun of me all you want on CNN or wherever. But everyone already innately knows this: These people are not frickin’ humans, ok. Hillary Clinton is a God-damned demon!”
That’s not a metaphor, folks. He genuinely thinks Obama and Clinton are demon-possessed. Says he has it on good authority. And Donald Trump views this guy as a credible source!
Meanwhile, Breitbart regularly refers to African Americans as – I kid you not – gorillas. And says stuff like this:
“Slaves built the US the way cows built McDonald’s”
“Consume welfare in whatever garbage country you come from, sweetie.”
“Another Crusade would do a lot of good. Let’s turn Mecca into a strip mall!”
The guy who runs Breitbart – whom Trump chose to run his presidential campaign – also refused to let his daughter go to a school where there were too many jews.
I keep wondering when my conservative friends will snap out of this Trump trance.
“Trump specifically CITES Alex Jones.”
That’s not particularly surprising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZufT7RPDA
“Alex Jones, nice guy.”
@John Berryhill,
Flabbergasting.
Donald Trump may surround himself with white supremacists as advisors, spread conspiracy theories, incite violence, scapegoat racial minorities, ignore the Constitution’s freedom of religion by banning muslims, attack the Constitution’s freedom the press when he threatens to shut down the New York Times for criticizing him, vow to jail his opponents, throw our defense treaties out the window unless our allies pay us Mafia-style “protection” money, encourage Russia to hack into our infrastructure, etc. etc.
… but at least he’s gonna “make America great again”. How? By rounding up the Latino migrant laborers our economy depends on and ejecting them. By ordering police to stop and frisk black people.
War #1: Trump suggested arming Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons. Considering that’s the country Bin Ladin and the 9/11 hijackers came from, it’s probably a good idea to give them nuclear ballistic missiles. What could go wrong?
War #2: North Korea used to be the craziest country on the planet that has nuclear weapons. Now it’s arguably the USA. Even if Trump himself doesn’t press the button, he suggested that China (which has nukes) ought to invade North Korea (which has nukes). Kim Jong Un may have a ridiculous haircut, but he’s not cute. The boy tyrant threw his own uncle into a cage where he was “eaten alive by a pack of ravenous dogs”. That’s power a dictatorial narcissist like Trump can only dream of. If China were to invade North Korea – which this idiot thinks is a good idea – we’d be looking at nuclear war in Asia.
War #3: Trump said he’d blow up an Iranian ship because sailors made crude gestures at us. Never mind that our military is hanging around off the coast of Iran. Never mind that people in Texas would be flipping off if the Iranian Navy if they were constantly patrolling the Gulf of Mexico. If Trump does what Trump says he’d do, suddenly we’re at war with Iran.
War #4: Putin just finished putting missile defense systems in Syria. Trump, clueless as he is about foreign policy, thinks Russia is his buddy fighting ISIS. But ISIS doesn’t have planes, Donald. Those missiles are designed to shoot down YOUR planes, MR. would-be President Trump. Not ISIS. Us.
War #5: These Breitbart clowns want to destroy Mecca – a holy city revered by 1 billion muslims worldwide – to put up a shopping mall! Breitbart are the people Trump CHOOSES as his chief advisors. That’s his solution to Islamic terror? Really? Whether Trump actually does that or not, he’s already given terrorists a great recruiting pitch. Muslims all over the planet now think the USA wants a crusade, wants to destroy Mecca. If the USA keeps saying we’ll do that, those billion people will be justified in going to war against us. Exterminating a religion isn’t freedom.
Trump has moved us closer to WW3 than we’ve ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. As he puts it, “I love war”. At home, there’s more civil unrest than we’ve seen since the 1960s or even since the Civil War in the 1860s. Just because Trump tells people everything is “rigged”. And the crazy thing is that this chaos is all self-induced. The crazy thing is that so many people are going along with it – some for partisan support, some because they’re dazzled by a rich messiah who’ll make everything magically better, some because they’re conservatives who mistake Trump for a conservative. All because of words. All because Trump says, “I know words, I have the best words” and people listen.
People are so distracted by a sex scandal and party politics, they can’t even see what’s at stake here.
Correction: Not dogs. Firing squad. Turns out the “ravenous dogs” story was anti-Korean Chinese news media propaganda. Which, in a sense, is worse. Because it means people in China might be prepared to do what Trump wants.
I generally don’t like non.com domains but in this case I like Trump.tv best, but he should get Trumptv.com for all the people who go there by mistake. One reason .tv is better in this case is that is it just a subset of his much bigger business, so the .tv helps eliminate confusion as to what part of his empire you are going to. You know right away it is not real estate, steaks, or politics.
“I keep seeing this Trump News Network fantasy peddled.”
Unfortunately I see CNN (the Clinton News Network) not as a fantasy but as a real nightmare
I would say 40% (guesstimate) of the electorate is looking at this election from a lesser of two evils perspective, whichever way they end up voting. I am sure you could throw a dart in a busy street and hit someone with more scruples than either.
At least with Clinton she will continue the global imperialism dressed up as American exceptionalism that the country has pursued for 80 years. For all the bluster about bringing factories back (Lol) from Trump all that he would do is withdraw the US from the current, unstoppable, course of globalization. And if you think that is a road you would be better off going down I would revisit those thoughts in around 36 months and take a look at the state of the UK.
The ride has begun and there’s no getting off.
@Michael Berkens,
I agree with you that CNN is a “a real nightmare”. But partly for the opposite reason. Instead of seeking out real experts or discussing policy, they devote a HUGE percentage of on-air time to Trump surrogates whose ENTIRE JOB is to shill for Donald Trump.
These surrogates ALWAYS champion whatever Trump says. It’s literally their job to be 100% biased in favor of Donald Trump. In some cases, non-disparagement clauses FORBID them to criticize Trump. Keep in mind, it’s CNN that pays them to be Trump shills!
Supposedly this makes CNN’s coverage “balanced”. In practice, stuffing these shills into the mix prevents open-minded debate. This isn’t journalism. Journalism is supposed to sniff out the facts. Journalism is supposed to be non-partisan. That’s impossible when CNN hires Trumpists as regular guests whose very job description bars them from expressing reservations about anything Trump does or says.
What we end up with are ludicrous screaming matches, as these shills invent more and more extravagant deflection techniques. It’s disgraceful that CNN has prostituted itself to sensationalism in this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91x3nKXTh7U
CNN is so afraid of seeming biased that it deliberately hires people to shill for Trump. How anybody can call CNN the “Clinton News Network” after watching all these CNN-paid shills day after day is beyond me.
The entire government, backed by all the major media outlets, is extremely biased towards “the two-party system,” Joseph, by which you will only see two candidates in tomorrow night’s debate. The two-party system results from the relatively undemocratic way that we hold elections, but neither our current crop of Democratic and Republican politicians nor the major mass media will give much attention to the issue. That’s partly because it’s a somewhat complex matter but mostly, I think, because the current system unfairly benefits the Democratic and Republican parties.
The bias is so blatant that inclusion in tomorrow night’s debate is based on polls which ask the question, “Who would you vote for if the election were held today,” rather than, “Which candidate do you prefer most of all, regardless of whether you think he or she can win?” And the pollsters that the Debate Commission relies on don’t even ask, “Would you like to see any third party candidates included in the next debate, and if so who?”
I have a draft article on the voting system subject at MEVoting.com, although there’s a major change coming as I believe there’s a better system than the one proposed there now. It seems ridiculous to me that in this age of incredible knowledge and technology there is still no consensus among mathematicians and political scientists on the best way for voters to choose one candidate out of three.
@John Schultz,
The news media are biased in all sorts of ways. Toward a 2-party system, as you say.
Underlying this is 1 fundamental bias. It’s not liberal / conservative. The media are biased toward sensationalism. They love controversies, catastrophes, pitting “us” against “them”. Most of all, TV loves sensational personalities. Preferably villains and victims. Reality TV discovered that nasty interpersonal squabbles among narcissistic nobodies will keep consumers glued to the screen.
The news media has adopted this model of reality TV because it’s more profitable than real journalism. People are bored with policy. But we love watching politicians fight it out WWF style! The “news” hosts who are most popular are the people who demonize the “other” the most. Angry viewers love to get angrier by watching the bad coverage. It gives us a buzz to shout at somebody. It’s addictive.
2-party squabbles are better drama than 4-party discussions. Hollywood has 1 good guy versus 1 bad guy. TV News does much the same thing. Reality isn’t like Hollywood; but TV news coverage is like a gossipy tabloid that tracks the “Scandals of the Stars”… or even like a bad movie with a stereotypical super-villain who threatens to destroy the whole world unless some white guy with a gun stands up and blows She-Godzilla away. That’s not an exaggeration. Some Trump supporters have given on-camera interviews, vowing to assassinate Hillary Clinton if she’s elected.
To hear Donald Trump talk lately, it’s as if this election were “Transformers: Age of Extinction”. Unless he’s elected, he says, we’re all DOOMED.
And that’s why the media love Trump. CNN doesn’t cover Trump scandals because they hate Trump. They LOVE the guy because he’s an endless source of controversies; and controversies boost ratings.
Excellent post. I liked the original “Hunger Games” movie for the insight it displays on media manipulation.
They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Tnn.com is better.
Dave Just like CNN
Putin has his TV channels, so I can’t see why President Trump shouldn’t keep up with his BFF.
Creating compelling TV with your own “brand” is really hard, especially when the competition will give you zero publicity.
These “brands” died when they went on network: Sarah Palin TV never even got traction; Oprah Winfrey’s TV brand has struggled; Glen Beck’s Blaze TV has crashed and burned.
My guess: Kushner, the son-in-law, engaged in talks with a network with the possibility to license the “Trump” brand and present a variety of offerings (Breitbart, Alex Jones (conspiracy peddler) to its niche target audience.
Why would TRUMP TV or even get the backing succeed when these TRUMP brands all have failed:
1) Trump University, 2) Trump Water, 3) Trump de France, 4)Trump Steak, 5)Trump Shuttle, and dozens of other “Trump” offerings.
My guess: Trump will not launch TRUMP TV, but he might launch a TV Attack Show — and attempt to become the Rush Limbaugh of TV.
The Trump brand has taken a hit in the last 16 months —
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump’s daughter loses the family name in branding and decides to go with something shorter, catchier (i.e, to separate herself with the Trump brand), like just “Ivanka”
Stay tuned. But not for Trump TV. I don’t think that will happen.
You might want to check out the USPTO filings by Ivanka Trump Marks LLC.
Pretty interesting replies here. First off, i do believe Trump.tv is far superior to tv.com. It is the shortest domain possible with his full last name/brand and of course the most videocentric tld other than .video which is far too long. I am sure he will buy both for traffics sake though and just redirect tv.com to .tv. I really do not see TNN.com as a possibility as much as Trump.tv. This ego maniac needs to see his full surname/brand everywhere just like every dog leaving their scent everywhere. I know this too well because i unfortunately have to see his name everytime i am driving down Michigan Ave towards the river here in Chicago. One of the worst new additions to our skyline. Who knows maybe he will just go with Pu$$y.tv
not if he already owns Trump.com … oe, yes, but just to avoid clone sites
He should buy both names IMO.
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