{"id":45805,"date":"2020-07-01T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45805"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:58:33","slug":"huh-trump-celebrates-fox-news-ratings-the-network-he-says-is-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45805","title":{"rendered":"HUH? Trump Celebrates Fox News Ratings, the Network He Says is &#8216;Terrible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is over. And the nation is no longer in recession. And the 40 million unemployed Americans have all gone back to work. And there is no more civil unrest in the streets due to systemic racism. And Russia has revoked their bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. This is what you&#8217;d have to assume based on what Donald Trump has made his priorities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34118\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3669742993040469\" 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>On Wednesday morning Trump was busily conducting his presidential Twittery. He was taking a break from his other main duties, golfing and watching Fox News. However, Fox wasn&#8217;t far from his wobbly consciousness. Prominent within his Twantrums were shout outs to the State TV network that so reliably disseminates Trump-fluffing propaganda. He tweeted that he&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can\u2019t believe how badly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> has done in the newly released TV ratings. They are so far below <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a> (thank you President Trump!) that you can barely find them. Fredo should be given a big pay cut! MSDNC also did poorly. As I have long said, Fake News does not pay!!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1278280574801784833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnd&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a> on completely dominating the just released morning TV Ratings. Morning Joke, staring Psycho Joe Scarborough on MSDNC, a Concast Company, was a disaster. Even worse was the barely registering <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> mess!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1278283487242567681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost needless to say that Trump, a former reality TV game show host, is badly misrepresenting reality. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/tv-ratings-cable-news-has-record-setting-second-quarter-1301220\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published in the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong>, the ratings performance for the second quarter of 2020 showed unprecedented gains across the board for the news media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All three major cable news networks set ratings records in the second quarter of 2020, as ongoing stories including the coronavirus pandemic and racial justice protests drove viewers to Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The three channels recorded double-digit gains over the same period in 2019 in total viewers and adults 25-54. All three also delivered their biggest viewer tallies ever in both total-day averages and in primetime.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News predictably came out on top because they have no competition for the wingnut audience they pander to. However, the margin of victory was hardly worth celebrating. In the key advertiser demographic of 25-54 year olds, Fox drew 366.000 viewers. CNN was close behind with 335,000, and MSNBC was narrowly lower with 315,000. Those are the rankings for what Trump characterized (and egocentrically thanked himself) as being <em>&#8220;so far below &#8230; that you can barely find them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump lying about ratings &#8211; or anything else &#8211; won&#8217;t surprise anyone anymore. But it&#8217;s notable that after fourteen years on television, Trump is still obsessed with the medium and even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45772\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">believes that ratings are a better measure of popularity<\/a><\/strong> than scientific polling (they aren&#8217;t). But it is interesting to note the schizophrenia poking through Trump&#8217;s already diagnosed malignant narcissism. The fact that he&#8217;s congratulating Fox News for a ratings win comes after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=trump-attacks-fox-news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">months of attacking Fox<\/a><\/strong> for being just another fake news front for liberals and Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Just in the past few weeks, Trump has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1277609254455779328\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">whined<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;The @FoxNews Polls are a JOKE!&#8221;<\/em> ( <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45383\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a familiar complaint<\/a><\/strong>) He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1273970542203170816\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">raged<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;Fox is terrible!&#8221;<\/em> He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1263537553073942528\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fumed<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd&#8221;<\/em> (because he believes that that is their purpose). And he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1234519726702956545\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">griped<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;FoxNews is working hard pushing the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats.&#8221;<\/em> Yeah, sure they are.<\/p>\n<p>Trump can&#8217;t seem to figure out whether he loves Fox or hates them. But while he has committed himself to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45348\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">finding another network<\/a><\/strong> to carry his poisoned water, he still schedules his interviews almost exclusively with Fox. To be sure, he has some justification for being perturbed with his Ministry of Propaganda. One host recently speculated that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45783\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump might drop out of the race<\/a><\/strong> due to his abysmal polling. But overall, Fox News is as biased in favor of Trump and his Republican confederates as ever. The problem is that they aren&#8217;t always 100% blindly loyal to him as he demands of everyone in his sphere of sycophancy. And that&#8217;s enough for him to go careening wildly off the rails.<\/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>Apparently the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is over. And the nation is no longer in recession. And the 40 million unemployed Americans have all gone back to work. And there is no more civil unrest in the streets due to systemic racism. And Russia has revoked their bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. This is what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34118,"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":[1,684,1200,8,6],"tags":[42,554,879,33,599,22],"class_list":["post-45805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-ratings","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-msnbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bUN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41289,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41289","url_meta":{"origin":45805,"position":0},"title":"Trump &#8216;Congratulates&#8217; CNN for Having Low Ratings, Even Though His Are Much Worse","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/22\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Having a healthy ego is a requirement for anyone who aspires to be President of the United States. 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