'Said the quiet part out loud': Trump ripped for outburst against Fox News
President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News in a Truth Social post on Sunday, criticizing the network for airing an interview with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on the topic of healthcare.
Trump accused Fox and correspondent Peter Doocy of giving Kelly a platform to speak "totally unabated or challenged," while ignoring Republican perspectives and diminishing his own popularity in their coverage.
“Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare?” Trump wrote. “The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN.”
The post, laden with Trump’s trademark all-caps emphasis and grievances against media bias, continued with a warning to the conservative network: “Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn’t make any difference to me.”Trump also claimed Fox News benefits from his popularity and presence in the Republican Party but allegedly distorts coverage to favor Democrats.
He also slammed the network’s polling practices, stating they “refuse to put up Polls that correctly show me at 65% in Popularity, a Republican RECORD,” and labeled the Fox News Poll as “one of the worst 'Pollsters' out there.”
The president’s remarks were criticized on social media.
Democratic influencer Brian Krassenstein wrote on the social platform X: “Trump flips out at Fox News for not completely sucking up to him.
He wants Fox News to be an arm of the government, and he just told America that.
He said the quiet part out loud.”
Podcaster Spencer Hakimian wrote: “Trump is very angry at Fox News and Peter Doocy.”
“Every single hour of every day, he is more unhinged and lives in a delusional fantasy world filled with made up numbers and complete nonsense that doesn’t exist. Despite this being the kind of rant an escape mental patient would spew out, its become normalized & it gets ignored,” wrote an account on X.
