On Sunday his father made a similar complaint.
“Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare? The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He demanded that Fox “should either get on board, or get off board” and said that the network spins news “in the Democrats’ direction” while suppressing polls that “show me at 65% in popularity.”
There are no reputable polls showing that level of support for Trump. Their complaints about Fox are part of a trend that has gone on for years. Trump is addicted to watching Fox, from which he has appointed multiple talking heads to his administration and taken major policy cues.
For its part, Newsmax is more than happy to amplify the Trump family’s complaints about the rival right-wing network, especially since Newsmax recently sued Fox.
But the whining about Fox doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Fox effectively turned Trump from a tabloid TV personality into a political figure, propping him up for more than a decade now. Fox turns massive Trump failures into successes, insisting that widely ridiculed Trump moments—like his recent speech to the United Nations—were a big win. |