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Daily Mail
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Trump hits out at Fox News hosts
Published: Updated: President Donald Trump has hit out at Fox News hosts who were analyzing his first 100 days in office. The president lashed out at both Howard Kurtz and commentator Karl Rove in separate Truth Social posts Sunday night, after they discussed some of his recent actions. He argued that Kurtz, 71, has to 'retire' after the Fox News host tried to defend him on his show. Kurtz was joined by contributor and Trump supporter Ben Domenech and liberal Democrat strategist Leslie Marshall on his show, Media Buzz, for a discussion on the president's decision to fire national security advisor Mike Waltz. They also discussed Trump's falling approval ratings. Throughout the segment, Kurtz defended the president - but because he featured clippings from other outlets, Trump claimed Sunday night that the Fox News host did a poor job speaking up for him. After Rove offered his suggestions for Trump to improve his poll ratings, the president called the former deputy White House chief of staff a 'total loser.' In his post hitting out at Kurtz, the president suggested, 'It is time for Howie Kurtz to retire. 'Every Woke Anchor in the Business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSDNC and others are plastered all over his show with all really negative and fake statements and then I am weakly "defended" by Howie and his group (although Ben Domenech has been strong!' he wrote on his Truth Social page. Trump then claimed that Kurtz's 'case' for him was not good enough. 'The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if he didn't say anything,' the president concluded. Kurtz has since responded that he isn't worried about the president's criticism as he lamented on X that there were 'lotta trolls out today. 'I've known President Trump for 35 years and if I hated him, he wouldn't keep giving me interviews,' he wrote. 'Some people [are] not interested in fairness.' Trump was again left offended several hours later, after apparently watching Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy. The host had invited Rove to discuss the lessons of Trump's first 100 days in office, and what the former White House deputy chief of staff thinks he should learn as he loses favorability. 'He's got to be focused on those two things, I think, that people wanted, which was a strong and prosperous economy and inflation being wiped up,' Rove said, noting the high cost of gasoline and consumers' concerns about his upcoming tariffs. But Trump did not take the criticism likely, writing on Truth Social: 'I don't need Karl Rove of Fox News to tell me what to do. 'The guy's a total Loser who's been wrong about almost everything,' he claimed.
Daily Mail
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Trump turns on Fox News hosts as he demands one retires immediately and blasts another as a 'total loser'
President Donald Trump has hit out at Fox News hosts who were analyzing his first 100 days in office. The president lashed out at both Howard Kurtz and commentator Karl Rove in separate Truth Social posts Sunday night, after they discussed some of his recent actions. He argued that Kurtz, 71, has to 'retire' after the Fox News host tried to defend him on his show. Kurtz was joined by contributor and Trump supporter Ben Domenech and liberal Democrat strategist Leslie Marshall on his show, Media Buzz, for a discussion on the president's decision to fire national security advisor Mike Waltz. They also discussed Trump's falling approval ratings. Throughout the segment, Kurtz defended the president - but because he featured clippings from other outlets, Trump claimed Sunday night that the Fox News host did a poor job speaking up for him. After Rove offered his suggestions for Trump to improve his poll ratings, the president called the former deputy White House chief of staff a 'total loser.' In his post hitting out at Kurtz, the president suggested, 'It is time for Howie Kurtz to retire. 'Every Woke Anchor in the Business, people that no one watched from CNN, MSDNC and others are plastered all over his show with all really negative and fake statements and then I am weakly "defended" by Howie and his group (although Ben Domenech has been strong!' he wrote on his Truth Social page. Trump then claimed that Kurtz's 'case' for him was not good enough. 'The case Howie makes for me is so pathetic that it would be a lot better if he didn't say anything,' the president concluded. Kurtz has since responded that he isn't worried about the president's criticism as he lamented on X that there were 'lotta trolls out today. 'I've known President Trump for 35 years and if I hated him, he wouldn't keep giving me interviews,' he wrote. 'Some people [are] not interested in fairness.' Trump on Sunday said Howard Kurtz, 71, needs to 'retire' and hit out at Karl Rove for offering him suggestions on how to turn his poll numbers around Trump was again left offended several hours later, after apparently watching Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy. The host had invited Rove to discuss the lessons of Trump's first 100 days in office, and what the former White House deputy chief of staff thinks he should learn as he loses favorability. 'He's got to be focused on those two things, I think, that people wanted, which was a strong and prosperous economy and inflation being wiped up,' Rove said, noting the high cost of gasoline and consumers' concerns about his upcoming tariffs. But Trump did not take the criticism likely, writing on Truth Social: 'I don't need Karl Rove of Fox News to tell me what to do. 'The guy's a total Loser who's been wrong about almost everything,' he claimed.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump Rages at Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow in Unhinged ‘MSDNC' Rant
President Donald Trump proved over the weekend that even good news can't keep him from his manic late-night rageposting. After it was revealed that MSNBC was canceling progressive stalwart Joy Reid's show, The ReidOut, as part of a sweeping overhaul of the network's primetime line-up, the president could have quietly basked in the satisfaction of his on-air foe's removal. Instead, Trump went off on a bizarre Sunday night rant on his social media platform Truth Social bashing the network and its talent, and randomly demanding MSNBC pay 'vast sums of money' for the 'damage' it's caused. 'Lowlife Chairman of 'Concast,' Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenged NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television, the mentally obnoxious racist, Joy Reid. Based on her ratings, which were virtually non-existent, she should have been 'canned' long ago, along with everyone else who works there,' Trump wrote late Sunday night. (MSNBC is currently being spun off from parent Comcast as part of a new entity that will include CNBC, USA Network and other cable channels called SpinCo. MSDNC, a portmanteau of MSNBC and the Democratic National Committee, is Trump's go-to insult for the network.) During Trump's first term in office, Reid's scathing criticism of the president both on the air and on social medial led the New York Times to declare her 'a heroine of the resistance to his leadership.' Her usual 7 p.m. broadcast will air for the final time later this week, a source familiar with the changes confirmed to the Daily Beast. It will reportedly be replaced by a new show co-anchored by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, who currently helm MSNBC's The Weekend and represent a wider spectrum of anti-Trump constituencies. Trump's Truth Social post went on to trash Rachel Maddow, who he said 'rarely shows up because she knows there's nobody watching, and she also knows that she's got less television persona than virtually anyone on television except, perhaps, Joy Reid,' and 'LOW IQ Con Man' Al Sharpton. In fact, Maddow is back to hosting her hourly 9 p.m. show five days per week for the first 100 days of the new Trump administration, after only airing on Mondays starting in 2022. Originally host Alex Wagner was supposed to return to the 9 p.m. time slot four days per week starting in late April, but with the shakeups that hosting job is now up in the air. MSNBC's ratings dropped after the election but have rebounded since Trump was sworn into office. In the four weeks since Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, the network's weekday primetime audience average was 1.4 million viewers, up 77 percent from pre-inauguration viewership of 799,000 from December 30 to January 19. 'This whole corrupt operation is nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democrat Party. They should be forced to pay vast sums of money for the damage they've done to our Country,' Trump wrote. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump launched her own Fox News show on Saturday less than three months after stepping down as co-chair for the Republican National Committee. 'Fake News is an UNPARDONABLE SIN!' Trump concluded his rant. It was quite a bold statement from a man who just last week claimed Ukraine had started its own invasion by Russia in 2022.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rachel Maddow's ‘Decorative' Presidency Slam Blisters Trump
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's assessment of the Trump administration appears to have gotten under the Republican president's skin. Maddow called President Donald Trump's leadership 'decorative' on the Friday night broadcast of The Rachel Maddow Show, suggesting that 'First Buddy' and DOGE director Elon Musk is truly holding the power and the public's attention. As Maddow put it to her viewers, 'The dynamic between them is weird, in which the president is effectively sidelined while Elon Musk takes centre stage.' She alleged that Trump has been made to look 'weak' and 'sort of beside the point' as Musk continues to 'regularly upstage' and even 'talk over him' in interviews and conferences held at the White House. She added, 'that would be hard to take for even the least egotistical president.' Maddow also suggested has left the business of government up to Musk while he golfs and focuses on publicity stunts, including his 'cartoonishly outsized interest in posing with big maps,' upon renaming the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America.' 'He appears to be sort of decorative at this point,' she said, adding 'the person who's really working double-time to make the government actually do things appears to be his top campaign donor, who is getting all the attention, and all the credit.' Trump appeared to address her comments on Saturday morning as he launched a series of rage posts targeting the network. 'MSNBC, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MSDNC, IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY,' wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform. 'SUCH LYING AND MISREPRESENTATION. BAD PEOPLE AT THE TOP!' As if in further defiance of Maddow's comments, Trump also called for Musk to 'GET MORE AGGRESSIVE.' He also claimed that his administration has the 'HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS EVER,' amid multiple reports that his approval ratings have dipped.
Fox News
22-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump slams MSNBC as a ‘threat to democracy' in wake of NBCUniversal's lawsuit settlement
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Saturday morning to blast MSNBC as a "threat to our democracy." "MSNBC, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MSDNC, IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY. SUCH LYING AND MISREPRESENTATION. BAD PEOPLE AT THE TOP," Trump wrote. Trump railed against MSNBC last month as well, questioning whether the news outlet should "even have a right to broadcast". "MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn't even have a right to broadcast — Only in America!," Trump posted to Truth Social, responding to a report from Mediaite about CNN facing layoffs. These comments from Trump come amidst battles between the president and multiple other news outlets. The Associated Press was barred from White House Events after the outlet ignored Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its reporting. The White House's barring of the news outlet was listed as the primary reason the outlet is now suing the White House. Trump is also involved in another lawsuit against CBS, in which he is seeking damages for what he claims to be deceptive editing of the now notorious "60 Minutes" interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. MSNBC's parent company, NBCUniversal, recently settled a lawsuit against them after the outlet claimed Georgia gynecologist Dr. Mahendra Amin performed unnecessary hysterectomies at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center. The "uterus collector" lawsuit saw Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes' programs make "verifiably false" statements against the Georgia gynecologist. The parties have agreed to, and signed, a term sheet to settle the lawsuit, according to a joint notice of settlement obtained by Fox News Digital. The parties are working to finalize the language of the settlement agreement and are expected to effectuate the settlement within the next several weeks. The settlement comes weeks after a Florida jury found that CNN committed defamation against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young and was responsible for punitive damages. The six-person jury ruled Young was awarded $4 million in lost earnings, $1 million in personal damages such as pain and suffering and said that punitive damages are warranted against CNN. As the jury was gearing up to determine punitive damages, 14th Judicial Circuit Court Judge William S. Henry announced that Young and CNN reached a settlement for the amount that would be awarded to the Navy veteran. Fox News Digital has reached out to MSNBC for comment, but did not immediately hear back.
