{UAH} MSNBC to Air Obama’s 2004 Convention Speech During Trump’s Address to Nation

MSNBC to Air Obama's 2004 Convention Speech During Trump's Address to Nation

By Andy Borowitz

9:00 A.M.

Photograph by Gary Hershorn / Reuters

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—MSNBC will preëmpt Donald Trump's national address on Tuesday night by airing Barack Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, network officials have confirmed.

Harland Dorrinson, an MSNBC spokesperson, said that the network elected to air the Obama speech "in order to best serve our audience."

"Based on the data gathered by our research department, the number of MSNBC viewers who were planning to watch the Trump speech was approximately zero," Dorrinson said. "This seemed like a better way to go."

Since the Obama speech has a running time of only sixteen minutes, MSNBC plans to air it "over and over" until Trump has finished talking, Dorrinson said. "We'll air it all night if we have to," he said.

The network spokesperson said that the White House had contacted MSNBC to argue that the network could not preëmpt a national address by Trump. "We had three words for them," he said. "Yes, we can."

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