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Mockmaster wrote:So the Trump angle was a 1 week ratings spike attempt and a bit of publicity. What an anticlimax.

F4WOnline.com reports that the Trump storyline was originally expected to last much longer than one week. While specifics on what led to WWE nixing the angle so quickly are unavailable, sources say WWE officials were indeed disappointed with the reaction the Trump announcement got on last week's show.

KKLEIN wrote:BTW, I thought the backstage vignettes with Vince were great; especially the limo breaking down on him.

Rog wrote:It's definitely a card grafted for GRAPL. I'm going to be spoilt for choice when making the questions.

As of early this weekend, the script for last night's WWE Monday Night Raw was not finished and the belief is that the decision to kill the angle of Donald Trump as the new owner of Raw was likely a last-minute situation reports The Figure Four Weekly Newsletter.

The original Trump storyline was scheduled to go much longer than one week, although the general feedback among mostly everyone in WWE was said to be negative about it in the first place. The announcement of Trump "buying" the show last week also didn't help matters as it didn't get the reaction Vince McMahon was said to be expecting.

The obvious goal with the storyline was an attempt to get some press, although very few media outlets picked up on the story last week and those that did ended up looking bad when they reported it as fact. This forced WWE and USA to issue an apology press release later in the week. Another problem was that after the mess that was created last week among the media, the company again hoped they would get picked up when it was announced that Trump was providing a full ticket refund to everyone attending the show last night in Green Bay. Of course almost no one picked up the story except for local media. The line right now is that WWE ended up buying themselves $230,000 worth of publicity and it probably wasn't worth it in the end.

Relieved - Trump was going to run the show into the ground. 40.84 % (16649 Votes)
Annoyed - I was looking forward to the Donald Trump era of Raw. 34.90 % (14227 Votes)
Concerned - Mr. McMahon paid twice the price to get Raw back. I hope he doesn't take it out on the fans! 24.24 % (9884 Votes)

Jam-Master Jay wrote:Damn, that's a pretty decent rating.

Johnny Ryall wrote:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:Damn, that's a pretty decent rating.

I suppose it's irrelevant this week in a way - no ad revenue! Fnarr.

KKLEIN wrote:Now don't take this as gospel, but I do believe that may just be the highest rated Raw since February of 2006.

Cropolite wrote:

KKLEIN wrote:Now don't take this as gospel, but I do believe that may just be the highest rated Raw since February of 2006.

Indeed, 4.5's also hit March 2004 before that, March 2003 before that, and then you're looking at the regular 4.5+ ratings of 2002 & before.

Basically, this is only the fourth time they've hit that high since the weaning end of the Attitude era.

World Wrestling Entertainment just sent out the following for immediate release:

Donald Trump “Fired”

STAMFORD, CT, June 23, 2009– After yesterday’s monumental announcement by Monday Night Raw® “owner” Donald Trump that all ticketholders attending last Night’s show in Green Bay would receive a ticket refund, the tables were turned and he was unceremoniously “fired” by Chairman Mr. McMahon. Fortunately, prior to being “fired,” Donald Trump doubled his money by selling Monday Night Raw back to Mr. McMahon.

Although Trump is no longer the “owner” of Monday Night Raw, this may not be the end of the feud between these two world class promoters.

Cropolite wrote:Hopefully it is the end, or Trump gets his hair shaven.

Johnny Ryall wrote:I don't know about you guys but whenever adverts come on TV I don't watch them I change the channel, and then unless I was really interested in the first show I usually end up watching something else. I'm sure I'm not the only person in the world to do that.