Trump says Fox News is now worse than ‘Fake News CNN’
United States President Donald Trump on Monday slammed Fox News after his once-favorite network released a new poll that shows him trailing against many of his potential 2020 Democratic rivals.
The poll shows Trump losing to former Vice President Joe Biden by 10 points and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 9. It also shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg with very small leads over Trump.
Trump is known to watch Fox News and has granted many of his interviews to the network. Lately, however, he has attacked the cable network several times.
“Something weird going on at Fox,” he tweeted last month after the network’s polls showed him falling behind many of his potential 2020 rivals.
And in May, he criticized Fox News just for giving airtime to Democratic candidates.
“Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems,” he wrote.
However, Trump also has a warm relationship with many of the network’s opinion hosts, especially Sean Hannity, who took the stage with the president at a campaign event last year despite claiming beforehand he was only there to cover it.
“By the way, all those people in the back are fake news,” Hannity said at the event, using Trump’s favorite phrase as he gestured to an area where the media was gathered, including a reporter for Fox News.
In a since-deleted tweet, he claimed he wasn’t referring to anyone at his network.
Yahoo