Valuetainment founder Patrick Bet-David analyzes President Donald Trump’s battles with the press on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ Bet-David said the media wants Trump to run for a third term because they’re worried about ratings and the president is good for TV.

JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS HOST: Valuetainment founder, Patrick Bet-David, is here. All right, PBD, was that journalism that you saw with Kristen Welker? PATRICK BET-DAVID, VALUETAINMENT FOUNDER: No, that’s — I saw Sovereignty beating Journalism at the Derby, which was an incredible Derby that we had there. But no, you know, it’s almost as if Kristen Welker and the mainstream media wants the President to run for a third term, because I think they’re worried their ratings — what are they going to do when they have somebody else? Maybe it’s not him. He’s good for T.V. It’s almost the people on the backend of board are saying, hey, do whatever you can to get a lot of his voters to want him to go for a third time because we need him for T.V. There’s never been a better president for T.V. It’s almost they want the eyeballs. And by the way, Sean Penn, I was watching Sean Penn earlier, incredible actor from “Mystic River,” but in the interview with Jim Acosta, he looked like a dead man walking. He looked like he was in trouble. He looked like he wasn’t doing too well. But all of these guys, you’re watching everything that’s going on. I have four kids. I’ve got a 13, 11, eight, and a three-year-old, okay, they’re all waiting for Daddy right now. And I watch my kids that poke each other, and they’ll try to challenge them and try to mentally get them and I’ll say your brother is trying to get to your head. Stop. Let them do it. You’re making it look so easy. The President is getting under everybody’s skin, and it’s almost as if they don’t even know he’s doing it to them. It’s what makes it such great T.V. WATTERS: Like Alcatraz, he comes out, drops the Alcatraz bomb and sends the media into a tizzy. All they talked about today was that you can’t put foreign gangbangers in Alcatraz. It’s exactly the frame he wants them to be in, and they don’t even realize it. Why not? BET-DAVID: Now again, I think they have a blind spot, truly. I mean, you know, when you hear Van Jones talking about Democrats don’t know what they’re doing. They’re losing the audience, the 80/20 position. They’re always taking the 20 percent position. Crockett is now the face of it, is that who it’s going to be the face of the Democratic Party? They’re falling for this trap over and over, again and again it is making him look like it’s making him look like a guy that controls them. In an indirect way, he is the puppet master of the enemy because they’re falling for his trap every single — he wakes up and I bet that President Trump goes to sleep at night and wakes up in the morning and says, you know what? What am I going to say today to get under their skin? You know what, Alcatraz. Let’s talk about it. Let’s piss off the mainstream media, and let’s get them get distracted and we will talk about that. Every day, he keeps succeeding with these games he plays with them. WATTERS: Yes, it is like the Pope. You know, we’re just going to put my face in a pope outfit and make them look like they have no sense of humor, because that’s what he’s doing. They can’t even laugh at that. BET-DAVID: Now they can’t. They lack a sense of humor. They lack being able to enjoy the process. They lack — the American people want to find somebody that they watch and they say, man, I like watching him speak. I feel like he’s going to come through and deliver. He’s doing that. And unfortunately, when you lose the entertainment aspect, when you lose the fun side, when you no longer enjoy the process in whatever you do, the audience is going to tell you and you obviously see the voters are telling the Democrats are not having a lot of fun right now. WATTERS: All right, well, we’ll let you get back to your kids so you can referee them needling each other. Good luck with that. BET-DAVID: Thank you.

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