Trump says he won't appear on Fox News

[WanderingWinoZ]

What a cry baby....



www.politico.com/story/2015/09/donald-trump-fox-news-213971



Citing unfair treatment, Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is not going to appear on any Fox News shows "for the forseeable future," reigniting a feud that has heated up and cooled throughout the summer.


".@foxnews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future," Trump tweeted at mid-day on Wednesday.



Fox News fired back a couple hours later, saying Trump had it all wrong, and that it was Fox who dumped Trump. A spokesman issued a statement, condeming Trump's attacks on Fox's journalists.


"At 11:45am today, we canceled Donald Trump’s scheduled appearance on The O’Reilly Factor on Thursday, which resulted in Mr. Trump’s subsequent tweet about his ‘boycott’ of FOX News," the statement reads. "The press predictably jumped to cover his tweet, creating yet another distraction from any real issues that Mr. Trump might be questioned about. When coverage doesn’t go his way, he engages in personal attacks on our anchors and hosts, which has grown stale and tiresome. He doesn’t seem to grasp that candidates telling journalists what to ask is not how the media works in this country.”


The Republican presidential candidate had devoted Monday and Tuesday nights this week to blasting the network's coverage of him on Twitter, tweeting and retweeting criticism.

"I am having a really hard time watching Fox News," he wrote Monday night.



Trump also called out Bill O'Reilly on Twitter this week for having "the same old Trump haters" as guests and "refusing to ... post the great polls that came out today including NBC."



O'Reilly fired back on Tuesday, telling NBC's Matt Lauer that Twitter is "like the worst thing you could give Donald Trump."


“He wants people to like him. When people criticize him, he takes it personally," the host of "The O'Reilly Factor" said. "So I just think this is just a extension of his reality show, ‘The Apprentice.’ This is just theater right now."


Trump has criticized Fox's coverage in the past, particularly in the case of Megyn Kelly, who asked him tough questions during the first GOP debate.


He and Fox News chief Roger Ailes have struck two truces in the last two months, the last one coming in late August after Trump unleashed a series of tweets blasting "The Kelly File" anchor.


“Roger Ailes is great. He’s a special guy and a good friend of mine. We just spoke two minutes ago," Trump told Laura Ingraham in an Aug. 25 interview. "I mean, Roger Ailes is a great guy and no, I have no problem,."


The first truce came days after the Aug. 6 debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, where Trump had a contentious back-and-forth with Kelly and said in a later interview that she had "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." (He later explained that he was referring to her nose.)


“Roger Ailes just called. He is a great guy & assures me that ‘Trump’ will be treated fairly on @foxnews,” he wrote on Twitter at that time. “His word is always good!”





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[secretlyevil]

I hate that this man made me side with Fox News...ick, gross, yuck.

[laurenpetro]

Does he not see that his MO is entirely predictable at this point?

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Lol @ O'Reilly calling Trump out for "theater"! Donald Trump is Fox New's monster that has gotten loose and is terrorizing the village.

[2doxies]

I can't wait for this part to be over. Everyday it's more absurd.

[IIOY]

I am CRYING at the Fox News statement. Long live irony and hypocrisy.

[eclaires]

Will this be the straw that breaks Fox News? I mean maybe they will see the value of real journalism, lol.

This primary is such a fucking circus.

[ECB]

Sept 24, 2015 6:09:40 GMT -5 IIOY said:

I am CRYING at the Fox News statement. Long live irony and hypocrisy.

Irony and hypocrisy is running rampant - with them and with Trump.

"Waaahhhh.... they are being mean to me.  Oh, but wait, let me say a few things about women and Mexicans!!"

[dawnzersong]

Trump's revolting attitude and personal attacks didn't seem to bother Fox News for the recent years during which they actively sought and broadcast his opinion on everything happening in politics and current events. They just don't like it when his buffoonery is directed at them.

[jln]

I wondef if this will turn his fans away from him if they're news network is against him.

[IIOY]

Sept 24, 2015 7:56:37 GMT -5 jln said:

I wondef if this will turn his fans away from him if they're news network is against him.

He's already trending downward in the polls. I'm on my phone but WaPo has a piece about this today.

[bernsteincat]

The Today show broadcasted a bit of Trump's speech where he replied to Rubio's statement about his (Trump) lack of disclosing foreign policy ideas. Trump said he's not disclosing his policies because "I don't want to give too much away!!" Um... Ok.

[WanderingWinoZ]

Sept 24, 2015 8:01:02 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Sept 24, 2015 7:56:37 GMT -5 jln said:

I wondef if this will turn his fans away from him if they're news network is against him.

He's already trending downward in the polls. I'm on my phone but WaPo has a piece about this today.

www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/22/donald-trump-sure-is-getting-cranky-now-that-the-polls-dont-look-so-great/

Donald Trump seems to be a little cranky now that the polls don’t look so great

[aurora]

Watching Fox and Trump try to take each other down makes my day.

[ESF]

Christ on a cracker.

Every day, this fucking primary feels like the god damn AssholeBowl.

[KB]

His 15 minutes are almost up.

[earlgreyhot]

Sept 24, 2015 6:06:48 GMT -5 ChillyMcFreeze said:

Lol @ O'Reilly calling Trump out for "theater"! Donald Trump is Fox New's monster that has gotten loose and is terrorizing the village.

Right!?!!! Fox has been preparing its audience for a candidate like Trump for its entire existence.

There are no winners in this fued.

[WanderingWinoZ]

it would be terrific of Fox is the reason for Trumps downfall!

[darthnbjenni]

Sept 24, 2015 12:28:48 GMT -5 earlgreyhot said:

Sept 24, 2015 6:06:48 GMT -5 ChillyMcFreeze said:

Lol @ O'Reilly calling Trump out for "theater"! Donald Trump is Fox New's monster that has gotten loose and is terrorizing the village.

Right!?!!! Fox has been preparing its audience for a candidate like Trump for its entire existence.

There are no winners in this fued.

There could be. If Trump leads his sheeple to a more credible news site, and they finally hear real fair & balance news, thus dropping Trump - we would all win! 

[sharknado]

Trump makes me sick to my stomach

[krisc]

If Fox News were Plum Island, then Donald Trump would be their Montauk Monster. No? Lol

[Deleted]

Sept 24, 2015 12:28:48 GMT -5 earlgreyhot said:

Sept 24, 2015 6:06:48 GMT -5 ChillyMcFreeze said:

Lol @ O'Reilly calling Trump out for "theater"! Donald Trump is Fox New's monster that has gotten loose and is terrorizing the village.

Right!?!!! Fox has been preparing its audience for a candidate like Trump for its entire existence.

There are no winners in this fued.

I think we are all winners, lol. I love seeing two terrible things fight each other! Its like watching a spider fight a scorpion - the best that can happen is they both die, the worst is only one of them gets hurt. Either way, its fine by me!

[Jalapeñomel]