Trump is aged 75 and Morgan is 57. To their detractors, both are behaving like attention-seeking teenage. When did it begin, this strange thing, this peculiar relationship between Donald Trump and Piers Morgan? Was it once a friendship between a man and a boy, or a boy and a man-child?
At times, there was a true affection, it appeared, as Trump played the role of a hard-knuckled tycoon in seasons of The Apprentice, and Morgan appeared as a convincingly fawning acolyte in a special episode featuring so-called celebrities.
Are Donald Trump and Piers Morgan friends?
Morgan was one of Donald Trump’s most consistent supporters in the first years of his presidency, the pair having met and become friends when the British presenter appeared on Celebrity Apprentice in the USA.
However, in 2020, when Morgan expressed his disapproval in print of Trump’s reaction to both the killing of George Floyd and then the Covid epidemic, he wrote that Trump’s policies were “stupid, reckless and dangerous, Trump reacted in his singular presidential fashion and unfollowed Morgan on Twitter.
