President Donald Trump said on Friday that Savannah Guthrie had gone “totally crazy” during the NBC town hall on Thursday night.
Speaking to a group of seniors in Fort Myers, Fla., Trump also weighed in on Joe Biden’s appearance on ABC, which he said he did not watch.
“He wasn’t looking too good,” Trump said.
Trump and Biden held simultaneous town halls on the two networks. Guthrie, host of NBC’s “Today,” gave Trump an aggressive grilling on subjects like QAnon, white supremacy and his tax returns.
The Trump campaign had previously blasted Guthrie, accusing her of acting as a “debate opponent and Joe Biden surrogate.”
“That was a nice pleasurable evening,” Trump said on Friday. “I have somebody going totally crazy. I told you. I told you that … I understand that worked out very well last night, that’s what the word is. Another evening in paradise I call it.”
Trump also complained that ABC’s George Stephanopoulos had not asked Biden about his son Hunter and Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company.
“What I heard, it was softballs,” he said.
Trump also said Stephanopoulos had asked him tough questions in a recent event. He also complained about Facebook and Twitter, which decided to restrict sharing of a New York Post story earlier this week about Hunter Biden and Burisma.
“Big Tech is protecting him,” Trump said.
At a rally later in the afternoon in Ocala, Fla., Trump returned to the subject of Guthrie.
“She’s like disappeared,” Trump said. “Nobody can find her. She’s not too popular right now.”
He also repeated the complaint that Stephanopoulos had gone easy on Biden while Guthrie was more aggressive with him.
“If you can’t handle Savannah you cannot handle Putin and President Xi and Kim Jong-Un,” Trump said. “That’s small potatoes last night. That’s small potatoes.”
The Biden event on ABC drew more viewers than Trump’s, which was broadcast across NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. The ABC event averaged 14.1 million viewers, compared to 13.5 million on the three NBC channels. On NBC alone, average viewership was 10.9 million.