Rudy Giuliani Has Heated Exchange with Piers Morgan on Live TV
By: Benjamin VanHoose (PEOPLE. com)
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Host Piers Morgan called Rudy Giuliani "abusive" and "deranged" as the politician defended President Donald Trump's controversial response to the protests
Rudy Giuliani engaged in a fiery back-and-forth with Piers Morgan during a television interview this week.
On Thursday, the politician, 76, appeared on Good Morning Britain to discuss the current state of affairs in the United States, defending President Donald Trump's controversial and much-maligned response to the ongoing protests.
Amid the demonstrations in Minneapolis and around the country over the killing of George Floyd, Trump, 73, wrote on Twitter last Friday that the more violent protesters were "thugs" who were "dishonoring the memory of George Floyd." He added — to the alarm of many — "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
Giuliani stood by Trump's message, claiming that he meant that violence begets violence. He said media bias is what has led to criticism of Trump, which host Morgan, 55, fired back at.
"Oh, stop banging on about left-wing journalism, Rudy," said Morgan. "... I've written more fairly about Donald Trump than anybody."
The two then argued on-air about who was talking over the other, with Giuliani accusing Morgan of "lying to people." Responded Morgan: "I'm not lying — I'm quoting directly what the president said."
Minutes later, Giuliani ranted that Morgan is a "phony," to which the commentator simply asked, "What happened to you, Rudy?"
"Nothing happened to me at all, except watching how much you people lie and distort," said Giuliani. "You are disgraceful."
"You know what, Rudy? You used to be one of the most respected and revered people in America, if not the world. You were someone we looked up to —," began Morgan, when Giuliani interjected, "Oh, who wants to listen to you Piers? I mean, really? You can say anything you want, 'cause I have no respect for you."
By the end of the appearance, Giuliani began shouting about a "phony political narrative" against Trump, insisting that the "interview is over, as far as I'm concerned."
"You sound completely barking mad, do you know that?" Morgan said, to which Giuliani said, "No, I don't."
Giuliani did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
In the rest of the footage, Giuliani continued to bash Morgan, claiming that he lost his CNN talk show in 2014 because of bad ratings. Giuliani also seemed to be heard saying Morgan "f---ed up." Morgan apologized for the language, as Giuliani insisted he didn't use profanity.
"When I used to interview you, you were an intelligent, reasonable man, and you've gone completely mad and you sound deranged," said Morgan. "You're abusive, and it's really sad to see what's happened to you."
Giuliani said he wouldn't have any respect for Morgan after the interview, with the show's co-host Susanna Reid stepping in to shut down the personal attacks.
The portion of the broadcast ended with the former New York City mayor calling the anchors liars for saying he used profanity on-air — a point of contention that Morgan cleared up on Twitter afterward.
"It's not clear actually.. many think he said 'f*cked up' (as our gallery did in real time), others think 'sucked up', & now you've decided it's 'stuffed up'" tweeted Morgan to a user. "... as for apologies, I'm very sorry to any viewers offended by Mr Giuliani being such a rude, obnoxious & offensive guest."
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Not a fan of Morgan but wow.
Hate to break the news to some but donald and his allies are not well liked overseas.
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They're not well liked here either, if by "well liked" you mean a majority of the people in any given country.
"You sound completely barking mad, do you know that?" Morgan said
To which the fourth grader on the playground Rudy "Tootie" Giuliani said, "No, I don't." "I'm rubber and you're glue, anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you! Nanny nanny boo boo Pierce!".
It amazes me that any adult in America keeps blindly supporting this disaster of a President. Any sane rational American with more than half a brain can see right through this petulant bully and his complicit entourage of childish suck ups and sycophants.
The haters on the left have yet to give any rational and coherent reason(s) why they don't like Trump
Is it the positive programs and actions he takes for the majority of the American people,
and his belief in a strong America which is protected by law and order against all foes, even domestic ones....
or is it his sometimes unorthodox and abrasive style that ruffles the feather of the snowflakes?.
The truth is, is that the left would hate any other Republican in the office, simply because he or she isn't Hillary.
I give many of them often. It's not my fault that some Trump sycophants set on defending the indefensible are so brain dead they have trouble understanding logic and reason or have such bad reading comprehension that they imagine my many listed reasons aren't coherent.
Wouldn't know since I haven't seen any, just a lot of bullshit religious free dumb mumbo jumbo while dehumanizing immigrants and putting their kids in cages. If you're referring to the economy, it was great already, he did nothing but ride the same GDP growth and dropping unemployment rate Obama had already started.
You mean how he calls more than half of Americans who disagree with him traitors while cozying up to his big strong man Vladimir? What a piece of shit.
You call his incessant moronic tweets and over 18,000 lies "unorthodox" or "abrasive"? His own prior secretary of defense just said:
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.” - General James N. Mattis
Those opposed to dishonest Donald are not the crazy ones, only those clinging to Trumps leg with their heads firmly shoved up his ass see them as such, as anything viewed from that putrid angle is guaranteed to be distorted.
You obviously have no clue as to what "truth" is if you're daily defending a serial liar. I would have no problem voting for many Republicans I've listened to. I wouldn't have had any issue with Kasich, Romney or even Rubio. The only two that could never get my vote out of the crowd of 19 four years ago were slimy dishonest Donald and slick Ted.
This farce of a 'president' an administration - it's like President Obama said, they're not even pretending to be in charge.
We have no leader.
We have a toxic malignant narcissist.
What rock has Rudy Ghouliani been hiding under lately? Haven't heard from the slimebag for awhile
Guess his trying to take down a political rival in Ukraine didn't pan out.
Who gives a shit what Piers Morgan thinks?
What of consequence has he ever done except be a whiny ass Brit.
Have something against British people?
Nope, trained with some fine ones. Royal Marines, great guys.
Then if one did not like Morgan one could have easily just said whinny ass.
Adding Brit at the and was not necessary and sounded purposeful.
Nah, just the truth. He’s a Brit and he’s whiny imo. So perhaps you think no Brits are whiny.
Just pointing out facts. Hell look at your brethren below.
What of consequence have you ever done?
Yeah, I kind of have a problem with that.
Piers Morgan is the co-host of Good Morning Britain , so he is the same as George Stephanopolous or Robin Roberts.
What else do you want him to be?
He's a celebrity "journalist", I guess like many others are.
He's just another asshole whose opinion amounts to squat
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Well, for starters, the thousands of people who watch his show.
(but then you already knew that!
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Piers Morgan's return to Good Morning Britain on Monday, following him suffering coronavirus style symptoms - which tests confirmed was not the bug, has broken the ITV show's rating records.
1.8 million people tuned in on Monday.
Fox News averages about 3.4 million viewers a night in the 9-11 time slot.
So what’s your point?
The point was how other countries view donald and his allies.
Not very well.
Lets compare apples to apples, not Fox News.
Compared to Fox & Friends which gets an average of 2.5 million viewers in a country of 330 million,
Good Morning Britain gets 1.7 million views on average in a "kingdom" of 67 million, 54 million Englishmen.
My point would be that GMB is per capita more popular than Fox & Friends and the Brit's give shit.
Yep but I’m sure that wasn’t all his fault. CNN helped him with that.
A country of 328 M vs a country of 58M. So that would be like saying Fox had over 10M viewership.
Okay so we can agree Brits give a shit what he has to say more than Americans did. At least right now they do.
Glad you like him. I don’t. I think he’s a sanctimonious prick.
I never liked him, beside the point. The point was how Giuliani comes off, which you have yet to comment on.
Not beside the point. That was MY point.
Sparty,
Where did I say I liked him? So why go there? I didn't and I don't. I just was trying to put it into perspective about two things. 1. That he is considered a big deal there and 2. Brits actually are aware about what goes on in this country but Americans are barely aware about them.
And they always care what's going on here. I just wish that Americans were not so insular when it comes to world politics.
No, your point was instead of talking about how Giuliani comes off to another country was to attack the tv host. Complete deflection.
Still nothing to say about him...
And I wish some Americans weren’t so sensitive about such things but I don’t think either of us will be getting our way any day soon.
So true about how inward thinking we are.
Most people probably don't even know about the protests sparked around the world.
Nope, my point was crystal clear no matter how hard you try to spin it otherwise.
You might have a point if this article was only about Rudy but alas, it is not.
Yes it is no matter how much you try to deflect.
It is about him going onto a British show and being a complete ass.
So stop deflecting to other things and making it about something other than it is.
Who are you talking about?
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Americans who are overly sensitive about such things. Shall I drop a few names and get a few more coupons?
I know some folks here who would really enjoy that
Hey, that was uncalled for. In fact, this whole exchange was. I'm done.
Yeah, so were some of your comments.
Which comment. Point to it. Where was I rude to you? What did I accuse you of?
Your comment about wishing Americans weren’t so insular was pointed directly at my comment.
I took great offense to that as I am not and taking my comment as such is ridiculous imo
You were offended that Perrie expressed her position that too many Americans are insular. Your comment effectively said the same thing:
So here you agree with Perrie that the Brits are, oddly, more concerned about this matter than Americans. Perrie directly replied to your @2.4.9 comment with this:
She notes that Brits care about what happens in the USA but our own citizens are often unaware. She closes by stating she wishes that Americans were not so insular regarding world politics.
How could you be offended by that? It had nothing to do with you personally and expressed a sentiment that aligns with your own.
Rudi speaking to Piers
I didn't take that as a comment against you, just a comment in general. What this is about, a British television program.
It is true too. Generally, most of the US population has no idea of what is happening or going on around the world.
It is weird watching a meltdown happen live.
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Maybe I need to spend more quality time with you Sparty to help you read what people actually write.
I counter-punch; did you see the punch? If one dislikes a counter-punch one can engage thoughtfully or one can not engage at all. Not engaging at all, for those who cannot engage without getting emotional, strikes me as the best way to operate.
Definition of a snowflake imo
You need some tougher word shields Sparty.
It is true and it's disturbing. Knowledge and education are the currencies of our future and this country has a major deficit.
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Yep, that’s about right. Coupons likely handed out by more “conservative” mods for effect.......I might not be here for much longer .... 😉
Giuliani looks old and incoherent. No wonder he hasnt been on American media lately.
Now he is a loud mouth slobbering buffoon on several continents.
I remember himfrom many years ago. He was fairly sane back then. But he sure has changed! I think he is getting senile.
Yep, he’s following the Biden school of charisma
He was reasonable for almost 4 minutes before he complained about staying up til 1AM EST, than attacked the Mayor of Minneapolis
and it went downhill from there. Rudy should have gone to bed earlier and left the partisan attacks behind.
Piers was right, what happened to the Rudy America knew and loved a decade ago?
Old and incoherent is too kind.
I think Rudy may be suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's. Something is wrong with besides Grumpy Old Man Syndrome. Maybe trmp isn't returning his calls anymore?
Trying to get back into the circle.
I believe it's called "Trump's Disease", a surprisingly common combination of dementia, Alzheimer's and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It's being found in many conservatives and white nationalists who have been banging their heads against the wall due to having a black President for 8 years and the thought of gays being treated like any other American left them easy targets for this mind destroying disease.
I think it's untreated syphilis, like the 'president'
I wouldn't be surprised. How many wives did Rudy go through? Usually someone who has been married more than twice is also having a lot of affairs
Another one bites the dust! (Or perhaps more accurately, he is yet another one of Trump's staff that Trump has "thrown under the bus")u.
ROFLMAO What was it I read yesterday...?? A statement along the lines of whomever (Deleted) touches becomes poisoned... Poor Rudy. People, beyond the base, used to think that he had something cogent to say, and then he was touched by an orange apendage.
The full text of the comment:
Makes it clear that the president did not mean what his lawyer is jumping through flaming hoops to say that he meant. He Meant it in the original context of the statement, that is: If the people start looting, the government will send out soldiers and shoot the looters.