President Donald Trump let loose on Fox News on Wednesday, saying the network “isn’t working for us anymore” while encouraging his followers to look for an alternative to his long-cherished cable news channel.
In a three-part Twitter attack, Trump escalated his feud that started earlier this year when the network started featuring more Democratic commentators and hosted a series of town halls with Democratic presidential candidates.
On Wednesday Trump tee’d off on Fox News over an appearance by Democratic National Committee spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa.
“Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox. Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC are all in for the Open Border Socialists (or beyond),” Trump wrote.
In a wide-ranging interview on the 2020 election with Fox News anchor Sandra Smith, Hinojosa took multiple swipes at the president, his field operation in 2016, and policies like border separations — but what seemed to provoke Trump was a reference to polling that shows him losing to Democratic front-runners in several battleground states.
“Fox hires “give Hillary the questions” @donnabrazile, Juan Williams and low ratings Shep Smith. HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT and I will still find a way to Win – That’s what I do, Win. Too Bad!” Trump continued, “I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”
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President Trump let loose on Fox News, saying the network "isn’t working for us anymore" https://t.co/5JcC1JNFDu
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— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 28, 2019
Yup. The honeymoon is over.
Since when is a new outlet supposed to “work for” you, Donnie? You don’t own the network. You aren’t the boss.
Haven’t watched Fox News in a long time, especially when it was fawning over Trump at the beginning of his presidency. With Trump and his supporters a network is fine as long as its reporting is favorable to Trump. But one negative story about Trump and the news outlet is suddenly an “enemy of the state.”
Trump loves Putin and Kim.because they control.the media in their countries. Trump wishes he could be like them. but there’s that pesky First Amendment preventing him from controlling the media. Too bad, Donnie. The Founding Fathers put that amendment in the Constitution to stymie would-be dictators like you.
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