88% of viewers say Piers Morgan was too soft on Donald Trump in "sycophantic" ITV "love-in" interview

Warning: some of the tweets below contain mild swearing and graphic references to animals

Choosing the hashtag #TrumpMorgan to promote his ITV interview with US president Donald Trump, Piers Morgan was clearly hoping it would go down as a modern-day Frost/Nixon, yet for the majority of viewers it wasn’t quite the in-depth, hard-hitting face-off that implied.

https://twitter.com/m0dernworld/status/957742614824046594

In fact, a whopping 88% of those polled on Sunday night by RadioTimes.com said Morgan was not tough enough on Trump.

https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/957750858942427136

Many of those commenting on Twitter found the "love-in" between Morgan and his "great friend" an uncomfortable watch that failed to press Trump on any of the important issues...

https://twitter.com/Moriarty306/status/957748412811759617

https://twitter.com/misshjones93/status/957746683823165440

https://twitter.com/Pollyolivia/status/957745626929946625

Some found it really uncomfortable...

https://twitter.com/Dtc1245Dc/status/957748039611027457

https://twitter.com/sueperkins/status/957737209112743937

On Facebook it was a similar story.

"The most sycophantic interview I have ever lived through," wrote Collins Chidimuro, "and I grew up on a diet of Robert Mugabe interviews with the Zimbabwe state broadcaster. Shameful."

"They just seemed to be kissing each other’s behinds," noted John Wyres-Smith.

In the interests of balance we worked hard to dig out some positive reactions, although they were wildly outnumbered by the negative.

https://twitter.com/AndrewJohnKidd/status/957746357334347776

https://twitter.com/ashnahurynag/status/957738542523920390

https://twitter.com/MyBump2Baby/status/957749340583448579

This guy must have found them too...