Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:13 pm
The on again/off again Donald Trump and Fox News feud is back on in a big way after the Republican frontrunner went a Twitter tirade against Fox and Bill O’Reilly.
Trump went off on Twitter and claimed that Fox News was unfair to him:
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.@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
.@oreillyfactor, why don't you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
Trump soon began retweeting and quoting his supporters’ anti-Fox tweets:
"@coolgirl6978: @oreillyfactor @FoxNews this is bull fox. O'Reilly, I expect better from you. What is going on? Fair and balanced my ass"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@bewhatjesuswas: @oreillyfactor @FoxNews You dominate not because of them-but despite them;They need you more than you need them"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
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Trump and his supporters think CNN is fair to him:
"@Rbbrkhd: @realDonaldTrump @oreillyfactor @FoxNews The way you have treated @realDonaldTrump is totally unacceptable…CNN has been fair"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
Trump said that Fox was hard to watch during Megyn Kelly’s show:
I am having a really hard time watching @FoxNews.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
Finally, Trump quoted his supporters calls for a Fox News boycott:
"@VickyBrush: Do what most of us are doing! Turn off @FoxNews! There is a major boycott going on with them, anyway. Problem solved!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
"@JimShellenback: @realDonaldTrump @EdwardChelednik @FoxNews I steer away from Fox now. Never thought that would happen."
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015
Trump is creating a major headache for Fox News by doing what many believed was impossible. He is turning Fox News’s own viewers against the network. Donald Trump is making viewers question the conservative cred of Fox.
Unlike other Republican candidates, Donald Trump doesn’t need the endorsement of Fox News or the free media that their coverage can provide. Trump is his own media machine, so he doesn’t owe Fox News anything.
On NBC’s Today, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly dismissed Trump as theater, “I’ve known Trump a long time, he wants people to like him. When people criticize him, he takes it personally. And this machine, this tweeting thing. The worst thing you can give Donald Trump is this tweeting thing. I just think this is just an extension of his reality show, The Apprentice. This is just theater right now.”
The right is so fractured that the currently Republican frontrunner is in a state of war with the party’s in-house cable television network. The longer Trump is allowed to rampage the more damage his does to Republican chances of victory in 2016.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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