Trump Slams Fox News for Mentioning Polls That Show Him Losing 2020 Election to Joe Biden

There is no better evidence that President Trump thinks of Fox News as his own personal propaganda organ than these two Friday morning tweets excoriating the channel for conducting polls that show him trailing in his run for re-election:

.@FoxNews is at it again. So different from what they used to be during the 2016 Primaries, & before – Proud Warriors! Now new Fox Polls, which have always been terrible to me (they had me losing BIG to Crooked Hillary), have me down to Sleepy Joe. Even considering…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2019

….the fact that I have gone through a three year vicious Witch Hunt, perpetrated by the Lamestream Media in Collusion with Crooked and the Democrat Party, there can be NO WAY, with the greatest Economy in U.S. history, that I can be losing to the Sleepy One. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2019

Fox had apparently just aired a segment in which Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade noted that a new poll has Joe Biden crushing Trump by 10 points in a head-to-head election match-up. Trump, obviously, wasn’t buying it:

Here’s the video. Watch how Hegseth jumps in to shut down the idea that Trump’s reelection might be in jeopardy. pic.twitter.com/xANjklgIgc

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 26, 2019

This is what happens when an angry old man turns on the TV for his morning dose of ego-stroking, only to have the TV not tell him what he wants to hear. If the angry old man is president and has come to expect a certain deference from his TV.

A savvier politician would read Kilmeade talking about these polls as a warning sign from a network that has shown nearly unwavering support for his entire presidency. Trump instead tries to play programming executive.

One America News Network has been openly angling for the job of favorite Trump propaganda organ. Given the president’s relationship with Fox and his closeness to some of its personalities such as Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, Friday’s tweets read like a warning shot across the bow: tell the president what he wants to hear, or else.