{"id":45348,"date":"2020-05-19T13:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45348"},"modified":"2020-05-19T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:24:02","slug":"schizo-trump-loves-hates-fox-news-and-misses-their-sexual-predator-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45348","title":{"rendered":"Schizo Trump Loves\/Hates Fox News and Misses their Sexual Predator Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Donald Trump unleashed another in his series of desperate deflections from the COVID-19 crisis that he has tragically exacerbated by his negligence and incompetence. He volunteered to a press gaggle that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-scared.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39223\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3551423918205711\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, as with everything Trump says, it needs evidence before it can be regarded as truthful. If he is taking it he is exposing himself to serious health risks for a treatment that has no proven efficacy. If he&#8217;s lying he&#8217;s encouraging his dimwitted cult followers to assume those risks. Either way it is an obvious attempt to steer the news cycle away from his inept and deadly mishandling of the raging pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Media manipulation may be the one skill that Trump puts any real effort into refining. He has proven his willingness to manufacture distractions at precisely the moment he is being scrutinized for some act of idiocy or scandal. But he doesn&#8217;t really have to be any good at it because he has Fox News to refurbish his floundering PR in the wake of his incessant bumbling. Which makes Trump&#8217;s schizophrenic, flip-flopping attitude toward Fox all the more bizarre. Tuesday morning Trump took to his Twitter machine to cheerlead for his favorite Fox News morning show, Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a> trounces Morning Psycho (MSDNC) in the Ratings!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1262737181937938432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to celebrating the ratings of his Foxic friends, Trump engaged in the infantile name-calling that is the hallmark of his presidency. He is especially perturbed by MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough who has been an effective critic. Recently Trump began lobbing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45137\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">slanderous allegations<\/a><\/strong> that Scarborough murdered an intern twenty years ago. But Trump&#8217;s glee over the ratings victory for Fox comes in stark contrast to a tweet he posted just a few hours before:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> is no longer the same. We miss the great Roger Ailes. You have more anti-Trump people, by far, than ever before. Looking for a new outlet! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jXxsF0flUM\">https:\/\/t.co\/jXxsF0flUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1262563582086184970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is so much wrong with that tweet that it&#8217;s really going to need some deeper analysis. First of all, anyone who watches Fox knows that the network is far more pro-Trump now than ever. With a prime time line up that consists of dependable Trump-fluffers like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson, there is a unanimity of opinion that would make North Korea&#8217;s media operation jealous. A recent example is how they virtually <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/month-month-fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-has-dropped-more-20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">swapped out their coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong> in order to hype the phony <em>&#8220;Obamagate&#8221;<\/em> conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Trump is not <em>&#8220;looking for a new outlet,&#8221;<\/em> he&#8217;s already found one. He has been busily promoting the One America News Network (OANN), a tiny, little-watched, video blog that is even more worshipful of Dear Leader Trump than Fox. In fact, some of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43738\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s financial backers recently bought OANN<\/a><\/strong>, which suggests that it may become his television home after he loses in November.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump <em>&#8220;miss[ing] the great Roger Ailes,&#8221;<\/em> that&#8217;s his testimonial to the now deceased CEO of Fox News who was terminated due to mounting evidence of his sexual harassment and assault. Ailes not only committed vile acts himself, but he actively covered up the misconduct of his colleagues like Bill O&#8217;Reilly, often paying millions to secure the silence of their victims. Naturally a sexual predator like Trump would find camaraderie in an equally nauseating pervert.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Trump&#8217;s fluctuating opinion of Fox News is just further proof of his mental infirmity. He can&#8217;t seem to remember whether he loves Fox or hates it. Here is just a sampling of the frothing hatred Trump has recently aimed at Fox News;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43907\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Crybaby Trump Wants to Know: \u2018What the Hell Has Happened to Fox News?\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42970\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trumpocalypse Now: Trump Whines that \u2018Fox News Doesn\u2019t Deliver for Us Anymore\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42508\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Threatens Fox News: \u2018I\u2019m Not Happy with Fox and I\u2019m the One Who Calls the Shots\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41567\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a Solution for Trump\u2019s Whining that \u2018Something Strange is Going on at Fox News\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the attacks on Fox above, he has also been dishing out effusive praise to Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo, Greg Gutfeld, Laura Ingraham, Brit Hume, Mark Levin, and the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends. Plus, he&#8217;s done recent interviews with Fox and Friends, Bartiromo, Hannity, and Jeanine Pirro. Nearly all of his interviews since becoming president have been on Fox. So which is it, Donnie? Is Fox News part of the liberal, Democratic, Deep State, cabal that&#8217;s out to destroy you? Or is it Trump&#8217;s loyal bastion of unflinching support and blind adulation? Well, it depends on what day it is.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Donald Trump unleashed another in his series of desperate deflections from the COVID-19 crisis that he has tragically exacerbated by his negligence and incompetence. He volunteered to a press gaggle that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off the coronavirus. Of course, as with everything Trump says, it needs evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[554,879,33,599,22,1393,143,129,1396],"class_list":["post-45348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-msnbc","tag-oann","tag-roger-ailes","tag-sean-hannity","tag-trump-attacks-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-scared.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bNq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37955,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37955","url_meta":{"origin":45348,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Outs FBI Informant For Trump After Warnings It Would Create Security Risks","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/20\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"There is one cable news network that has made its proclamations of hyper-patriotism a part of its brand since the day it was founded. 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