Trump melting down, SLAMS Fox News as friendship crumbles

Trump used to like Fox News to the extent that Fox News treated Trump the way he wanted to be treated. Trump now feels that Fox News is disloyal, that they want someone else rather than Trump to be the nominee, that they're not praising Trump enough, whatever. And he is now increasingly furious with Fox sending out a three troth screed yesterday, right, where he attacks all sorts of things on Fox News. Let's take a look at this latest shot across the bow against right wing media from Trump. Quote, Did Stuart Varney of Fox Business, who's hosting the upcoming job application? That's the way Trump refers to the debate, a job application. Did Stuart ever apologize for probably purposely mixing up my poll numbers with Ron DeSanctimonious making it look like he was winning when in fact he is being crushed? Varney took a lot of heat, but I still haven't heard the word. Sorry, MAGA knew anyway, they didn't have to look at a fake Fox Post. Trump continuing to weaponize his anger against Fox News, saying, quote, I watched Fox and Friends this morning and it is totally unrecognizable. All they do is gush over job seeking candidates that are 50 points plus down to your favorite president or speak endlessly about people that will never run and without cheating could never win. And whatever happened to Steve? No wonder their ratings are way down, MAGA. And then Trump with a coda to this three troth screed against Fox saying, quote, Fox News was our voice. But sadly, that voice has developed a serious case of laryngitis. So here's the bottom line. Here's what's going on in right wing media right now. If you aren't unflinchingly, unanimously, belligerently pro Trump 24 seven about everything all the time, the man can do no wrong in your eyes unless that's your perspective on Trump over the airwaves. You are disloyal and you are a traitor and you're not worthy and you're supporting losers like the sanctus. OK, and that's the way it is for much of MAGA and certainly for Trump at this point in time. This isn't unique when it comes to media, when it comes to people. If you as Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's former press secretary, she has made some I don't even want to call them anti Trump statements. She's opined that Trump made some mistakes. She opined that when Trump. What was it? Trump did something. I don't remember what it was before. After one of the arrests, she said, I think this is bad strategy. It's not even I don't like Trump. I think this is bad strategy. And Trump turned on her. So with Trump, any departure from a cult like adulation is disloyalty. And you're on his his mean list or whatever the case may be. One thing you can count on from Trump is that he will always end up throwing people that were loyal to him under the bus as soon as they express even maybe like, oh, Trump might be approaching this the wrong way. Now, along these same lines, Trump is going to skip the second Republican debate tonight. This one is on Fox Business. The first one was on Fox News. I will still cover it. And what I'm looking for in tonight's debate is, number one, what is the relationship of the other candidates to Nikki Haley? Not because Nikki Haley's polling has surged so much. It's gone up, but it's modest. She's still polling only about 6 percent. But she is being discussed by Republican elites, for lack of a better term, as the one candidate that really could take down Trump. Is this going to place her as is this going to place a bullseye on Nikki Haley for the other people on the stage? Secondly, what do other people on the stage tonight do in terms of how they relate to Vivek Ramaswamy? Vivek Ramaswamy came out firing in the first debate since then. His unfavorables have gone way up. People find him annoying in many polls. That's the number one term applied to Vivek Ramaswamy. His polling is down about 35 percent. So I'm curious, are the other candidates tonight, rather than engaging with Vivek Ramaswamy, are they going to mostly ignore Vivek Ramaswamy and treat him sort of like as an annoyance? Treat him like that annoying fly that landed on Pence back in twenty twenty twenty sixteen. I remember what it was rather than giving Vivek the attention that he wants. And in addition to that, does Ron DeSantis come up with any way to seem like anything other than the most uncharismatic man certainly on that stage, if not in American politics today? Is there anything he can do? Remember, personnel, personality transplants still aren't a thing, as Donald Trump said a few weeks ago. So can Ron DeSantis do anything to stop the complete and total hemorrhage of his polling support? I will be live starting at 8 p.m. Eastern debates at 9. YouTube, Twitch and Facebook. Join me, because otherwise it'll just be me with a microphone watching the debate. And that'll be really bad and humiliating. OK, so join me tonight.