{"id":47058,"date":"2020-10-10T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47058"},"modified":"2020-10-10T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T21:16:14","slug":"trump-bashes-fox-news-even-while-cowering-in-his-fox-news-bunker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47058","title":{"rendered":"Trump Bashes Fox News Even While Cowering in His Fox News Bunker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The madness that consumes Donald Trump continues to manifest in bizarre and troubling ways. He&#8217;s making public demands that his Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr, indict and prosecute Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. He&#8217;s holding coronavirus Super Spreader affairs at the White House, which he has already turned into a COVID-19 <em>&#8220;Hot Zone.&#8221;<\/em> And he insists that he&#8217;s way ahead of Biden in the <em>&#8220;real&#8221;<\/em> polls that are published in the crevices of his decaying grey matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-curtains.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If that isn&#8217;t enough, Trump is also attacking his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News). This isn&#8217;t a new behavioral glitch. Trump has frequently <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?tag=trump-attacks-fox-news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lashed out at Fox News<\/a><\/strong> when he didn&#8217;t think that they were sufficiently adoring. It&#8217;s his way of <em>&#8220;working the refs&#8221;<\/em> to ensure constant adulation. But in the past couple of days it has reached a crescendo. For instance, during a marathon radio gabfest with Rush Limbaugh on Friday, Trump whined that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It\u2019s a problem. Fox is a problem. [&#8230;] When Roger Ailes ran Fox, I mean, Roger had a very strong point of view. It\u2019s totally gone. And I think it\u2019s influenced by Paul Ryan. [&#8230;] They\u2019re going the way of CNN, and they\u2019re going the way of MSNBC, and it\u2019s a shame. I mean, it\u2019s a shame. When I watch it, I look at the people they hire. I mean, I could tell you some of the anchors, they\u2019re so bad.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, Trump&#8217;s fond remembrance of the late Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is touching because they share so much in common. Particularly the fact that they are both serial sexual predators. But Trump&#8217;s complaint about Paul Ryan, the former GOP House Speaker who now has a seat on the Fox board of directors, reveals that Trump has no idea what a board of directors does. They are part time business advisors who have zero input into programming.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Trump&#8217;s comments on Limbaugh&#8217;s radio program, he made similar comments on the radio show of Fox News host Mark Levin. He was attempting to make a point about the differences between his 2016 campaign and the current one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the biggest differences is Fox. Fox is a whole different ballgame than it used to be. Fox was great. Fox was great. Fox is no longer great.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the reasons that Trump has arrived at this conclusion are the polls that Fox News has recently published. The most recent one shows him <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fox-news-poll-biden-gains-ground-over-trump\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">trailing Biden<\/a><\/strong> by ten points. But trump has been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46543\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">upset with Fox&#8217;s pollsters<\/a><\/strong> for quite a while. And you can be sure he was driven to new lows by the one that found that a majority of voters say that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46720\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he doesn&#8217;t have the <em>&#8220;mental soundness&#8221;<\/em> to serve<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes all of this even more peculiar is that while Trump has been amping up his attacks on Fox News, he has also been spending more time there. In the past four days Trump has done interviews on Fox with Maria Bartiromo, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson (with Marc Seigel), and Mark Levin. And he has another <em>&#8220;interview&#8221;<\/em> with Bartiromo on Sunday. He apparently has no idea that he&#8217;s only reaching people that are already voting for him. It&#8217;s all for his ego and the lack of any notion of how he can rescue his floundering campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The many hours Trump is devoting to Fox News is severely cutting into his golf and Twitter time. It also indicates that he has nothing else of importance to do. But most of all it shows that his whining about how disloyal Fox has been to him is just a charade. He knows that Fox News is his official State TV network and is vital to his nefarious schemes for the future. And he knows that Fox won&#8217;t punish him for his fake hostility toward them. They have a parasitic relationship wherein they are both addicted to each other. And while that may satisfy their immediate cravings for attention, it won&#8217;t keep Trump from circling the electoral drain.<\/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>The madness that consumes Donald Trump continues to manifest in bizarre and troubling ways. He&#8217;s making public demands that his Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr, indict and prosecute Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. He&#8217;s holding coronavirus Super Spreader affairs at the White House, which he has already turned into a COVID-19 &#8220;Hot Zone.&#8221; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46369,"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":[554,33,206,143,71,1396],"class_list":["post-47058","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-news","tag-mark-r-levin","tag-roger-ailes","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-trump-attacks-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-curtains.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cf0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45383,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45383","url_meta":{"origin":47058,"position":0},"title":"Trump Flings Feces at Fox News for Poll Showing that America Favors Biden","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/22\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As the nation continues to endure a deadly pandemic, Donald Trump continues to be obsessed over his public image. 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