Trump Whines About Fox News as Poll Numbers Keep Dropping
“I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else — They call me!” the former president posted on Sunday.
Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday to complain about a recent appearance on Fox News , which ended with the network abruptly cutting him off mid-sentence. The former president claimed that Fox News host Bret Baier had contacted him prior to Kamala Harris' speech at the Democratic National Convention and asked him to critique it, and that he had agreed to do so.
Trump dialed into Fox News on Thursday night and spoke with anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for 10 minutes. The Fox News hosts attempted to interject repeatedly, ultimately interrupting Trump to make way for Greg Gutfeld's late-night show. Trump then called in to Newsmax to continue his rant.
"The Fake News, like often ‘gilted’ Maureen Dowd of the failing New York Times, wrote incorrectly that I was making the calls," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "WRONG!!! I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else — They call me! It’s called Ratings, I guess, and I’m the ‘Ratings Machine!’”
Harris' speech at the DNC outperformed Trump's Republican National Convention monologue by 22%, with millions more tuning in to listen to the vice president. Trump's outburst comes as Harris leads him by 3.6 percentage points in an average of national polls.
Trump's Truth Social post also comes after the Washington Post reported that his campaign aides have struggled to keep him focused on the campaign instead of golfing almost every day. As Trump's former White House spokesperson Alyssa Farah Griffin put it, "From spending days off the campaign trail golfing to coming up with frankly weak nicknames like ‘Kamabala,’ it feels like he’s lost his mojo.”
Trump dialed into Fox News on Thursday night and spoke with anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for 10 minutes. The Fox News hosts attempted to interject repeatedly, ultimately interrupting Trump to make way for Greg Gutfeld's late-night show. Trump then called in to Newsmax to continue his rant.
"The Fake News, like often ‘gilted’ Maureen Dowd of the failing New York Times, wrote incorrectly that I was making the calls," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "WRONG!!! I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else — They call me! It’s called Ratings, I guess, and I’m the ‘Ratings Machine!’”
Harris' speech at the DNC outperformed Trump's Republican National Convention monologue by 22%, with millions more tuning in to listen to the vice president. Trump's outburst comes as Harris leads him by 3.6 percentage points in an average of national polls.
Trump's Truth Social post also comes after the Washington Post reported that his campaign aides have struggled to keep him focused on the campaign instead of golfing almost every day. As Trump's former White House spokesperson Alyssa Farah Griffin put it, "From spending days off the campaign trail golfing to coming up with frankly weak nicknames like ‘Kamabala,’ it feels like he’s lost his mojo.”