“Trump is a friend of mine. People might not like that,” Piers Morgan tells me as he’s going into the studio to record another episode of his YouTube show, Piers Morgan Uncensored. “But I have known Trump for 20 years and we have had good times and bad times together.”
Morgan’s career has been one of high-profile highs and lows. Sacked by the Daily Mirror and forced out of ITV, Morgan now has over four million subscribers on YouTube and, he says, remains a confidante of the US President. According to Morgan, they speak on the phone and text “quite regularly”.
“The last time was when I was in New York a couple of weeks ago and texted him after the visit from the King and Queen,” Morgan says. “We had a nice exchange. He was very ecstatic about how it had gone.”
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The depth of the Trump-Morgan relationship is clear from their long history of TV interviews, which have no doubt also benefitted their respective career ambitions. The broadcaster hosted Trump three times on his CNN show, Piers Morgan Tonight, when the property tycoon was exploring a route into politics. During the president’s first term, Morgan, then at ITV, sat down for wide-ranging interviews with Trump at Davos, aboard Air Force One and in the Churchill War Rooms in London.
