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ALL my thoughts, at this difficult time, obviously, are with The BBC, Good Morning Britain, Sky News, Alastair Campbell, Carol Vorderman and Channel 4’s America Decides team who went AWOL at almost exactly the same time Trump sealed his victory on Wednesday morning.

A health and safety issue, I’d imagine.

“Bats**t” crazy host Emily Maitlis was swearing pretty freely, even before this point, and would probably have planted a stiletto in the nearest Republican’s head if she’d stayed on air past 6.15.

It was an astonishing vanishing act, though, no?

All night, they’d been calling it “one of the most consequential elections in American history,” yet suddenly it was less important than a Countdown repeat?

It was almost like Channel 4 had gone into a massive Guardian-reading huff, which was certainly what was being taken on Good Morning Britain, where the reaction to Trump’s win veered erratically between the shouty indignation of Susanna Reid — “HE’S A CONVICTED CRIMINAL” — and the denial of starstruck work experience lad Noel Phillips, who was stood in front of rows of empty chairs at Kamala Harris’ “victory party” telling us: “The mood, despite there being nobody here, is one of hope.”

As thick as GMB clearly believes its own viewers to be, they’re not.

They have eyes in their head and understand Noel’s blind optimism and the hosts’ unsuppressed fury are signs of a show that seems to care more about the presenters’ opinions and even Lady Gaga’s endorsement than it does its own audience’s views.

A failing that hardly marks out GMB as uniquely flawed, biased and hopelessly wrong about almost every significant election.

For centre-left shock was in evidence everywhere, Wednesday morning, from the ashen-faced expressions of the BBC team, at 5am, to the moment Tom Bradby denounced Trump as a “fascist”, in the early hours, and fellow ITN newsreader Charlene White then told the Loose Women audience: “Trump’s won the vote and we all just have to live with it.”

You knew it was going to be like this, of course, from the moment Trump dodged a bullet in July and British television reacted with shock, not so much at the violence itself but with the dawning realisation their bogeyman could now win the Presidency, unless they threw all the woke indignation at their disposal in his direction.

You saw for yourselves, by their genuinely dismayed reactions, just how comically they all over-estimated their own importance.

That’s why I’d love Wednesday to be a day of reckoning when every major network finally acknowledges their institutional political prejudices and does something about them.

It seems like a forlorn hope, though, because for that to happen some of the most deranged egomaniacs in the country, like Emily and Alastair, would not only have to address their own spectacular irrelevance, they’d also have to deal with the fact that no matter how despicable they imagine Donald Trump to be, the public hates their self-righteous, narrow-minded and dismissive brand of right-on politics far more.

It’s a shame that’s not going to happen as this moral left-of-centre certainty is destroying television’s creativity, nowhere more so than in the world of comedy, which has just become another propaganda wing of the news media, as was demonstrated perfectly on Friday night, when two satirical shows poured a bucketful of hate over Trump.

Before they did that, though, they both had a chance to rip apart Labour’s Budget but bottled it completely.

First up was Ian Hislop, who now confuses the title of his own show for Have I Got A Stout Defence Of The Government For You, followed by The Last Leg’s Adam Hills, who offered this feeble surrender to Rachel Reeves: “What does all this mean? I don’t know.

"I can’t tell if it’s a good or bad Budget, but I will say this. If we gave the Conservatives 14 years we can at least give Labour 14 weeks.”

The crushing irony here, obviously, is that both shows would’ve been finished without a Trump victory.

With him back in charge they’ll now spend another four furious years denouncing away, without ever making us laugh deliberately but occasionally making the most perfectly pompous fools out of guests like Alan Partridge writer Armando Iannucci, whose desperation for The Last Leg’s echo chamber approval, on Friday, is worth repeating.

“My gut feeling is — and it’s not scientific — Kamala Harris will win on Wednesday . . . And Trump will stop her on Thursday.”