U.S. President Donald Trump lit into his once-favourite TV network on Sunday, saying Fox News is now even âworseâ than his longtime bĂȘte noire, CNN.
Trump said the American network âforgot the people who got them there.â He griped Fox News was âloading up with Democratsâ and complained it was citing The New York Times as âa âsourceâ of information,â an apparent reference to the newspaperâs Sunday article about disease, hunger and overcrowding at a Texas facility holding migrant children.
The U.S. president tweeted:
Trump is known to watch Fox News and has granted many of his interviews to the channel. Lately, however, he has attacked the cable network several times.
âSomething weird going on at Fox,â he tweeted last month after the networkâs 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.
âFox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems,â he wrote.
However, Trump also has a warm relationship with many of the networkâs opinion hosts, especially Sean Hannity, who took the stage with the U.S. president at a campaign event last year despite claiming beforehand he was only there to cover it.
âBy the way, all those people in the back are fake news,â Hannity said at the event, using Trumpâs favourite 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 wasnât referring to anyone at his network.
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