Ronald Molendijk has sometimes canceled a Shownieuws broadcast because Prime Minister Mark Rutte would appear in it. “As a human being, I don’t take that very well.”
If, as a politician during election time, you think that you have had the worst with Koffietijd, you should also continue to Shownieuws. Prime Minister Mark Rutte was also there two years ago in the run-up to the elections. In addition to Airen Mylene and Bart Ettekoven, he also met fellow party members Albert Verlinde and Frits Huffnagel.
Ronald cancels
So it was a home game for Rutte, but that didn’t make much difference. Actually, Ronald Molendijk would have been there. “Suddenly politicians knew where to find us and then Mr. Rutte came by and then I signed myself out for that evening. That just wasn’t fun television,” he says at the table HLF8.
Why? “I thought: this is not going to be fun. Then it just gets stupid of me to slam in frustration at someone who lies and cheats all the time in my view. ‘Function elsewhere’ and name all those scandals. He just keeps getting away with it and I just take it very badly as a person.”
Cook’s quarter
Will Ronald soon vote in the Provincial Council elections? “No, I am so disappointed in politics. These people lie and cheat everything to each other. Maybe most people don’t remember, but you had Kok’s quarter, for example. That was very brief and never seen again! Those kinds of promises!”
Frits Wester, political journalist for RTL News, corrects Ronald. “Look, that’s a funny misunderstanding. What they have done: they have not allowed the excise tax increase that would normally be due to inflation to go through to 25 cents, so that way there has not been an increase of a quarter.”
Well informed
Such a Ronald should be better informed, says Frits. “So basically everyone got it back. If you don’t inform yourself properly, you will say: ‘Yes, everyone cheats.’ Read your pieces first and know what it’s really about.”
Ronald: “I really don’t watch this, it really makes me sick. Because it is constantly promising: we are going to do this and that. Then there will be a coalition and then they will have forgotten.”
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Mark Rutte two years ago in Shownieuws:
