President Donald Trump took a hammer to Fox News over the weekend due to their 2020 polling coverage.
In back-to-back tweets took Fox News head on:
“[Fox News] gladly puts up the phony suppression polls as soon as they come out. We are leading in the REAL polls because people are sick & tired of watching the Democrat run cities, in all cases, falling apart. Also, now 96% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Another 2016!”
.@FoxNews gladly puts up the phony suppression polls as soon as they come out. We are leading in the REAL polls because people are sick & tired of watching the Democrat run cities, in all cases, falling apart. Also, now 96% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Another 2016!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2020
Trump compared the network to CNN and MSNBC and encouraged his followers to tune into One America News Network or Newsmax instead:
[Fox News] weekend afternoons is the worst! Getting into [CNN] and MSDNC territory. Watch[One America News Network] & [Newsmax] instead. Much better!
.@FoxNews weekend afternoons is the worst! Getting into @CNN and MSDNC territory. Watch @OANN & @newsmax instead. Much better!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2020
This isn’t the first time Trump has called for an alternative to Fox News.
In April, Trump called for an alternative after watching some of Chris Wallace’s critical coverage:
….fraud @donnabrazile (and others who are even worse). Chris Wallace is nastier to Republicans than even Deface the Nation or Sleepy Eyes. The people who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are angry. They want an alternative now. So do I!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 26, 2020
Trump and his family might make an alternative network reality after Trump leaves the White House.
In 2016, it was rumored he was laying the groundwork to create a network of his own:
Earlier this week the Financial Times reported that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had met with investment firm LionTree about the possibility of a Trump TV network, though Variety later cited sources as saying the meetings didn’t go anywhere.
False rumors were flying earlier this year Donald Trump Jr. was acquiring a stake in OANN:
Herring reacted Tuesday to a Vanity Fair article Monday by Fox News authority Gabriel Sherman, who cited unnamed sources in reporting that an investor group “aligned with … Don Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family has acquired a major stake in One America News Network.”
Herring told Times of San Diego: “So far we know nothing about Trump Junior buying our Company. We have had several people who want to buy, including some locals, but we are not anxious to sell.”
Herring is the father of OANN President Charles Herring, who Sherman said was asking $300 million for the channel, “a price the Trump group felt was too high (one source said the final price was around $200 million).”
