Fox News hosts are now basically begging Donald Trump to end his boycott of the Jeb News Network because of falling ratings. Despite the daily and hourly bashing of Donald Trump by Fox hacks who are so upset that Jeb Bush is failing so badly, they still realize it’s all about the ratings.
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For all of our Trump fans, a sweet little morsel left over from yesterday’s Gabriel Sherman post about the latest eruption of the Trump/Fox war.
Are there any Fox News hosts so obsequious towards Trump that they might dial him up and beg him to come back, like Johnny Fontane pleading with the Godfather to help him get that part he always wanted? Seems hard to imagine for most of them. Emphasis on “most.”
One reason there likely won’t be peace in our time is that Trump still has not gotten over Kelly’s questioning of him during the opening Republican primary debate. “She caused me a lot of damage, didn’t she?” Trump recently vented to a friend. “He’s really angry,” a source explained…
Both sides are posturing to save face. Yesterday a Fox statement called Trump’s boycott “stale and tiresome.” But a source close to the Trump campaign told me that Trump thinks he has the leverage. Trump has been hearing from Fox hosts who are worried that his boycott will hurt ratings. The calculus seems to be that by shunning Fox, Trump is hoping to drive a wedge between Fox hosts, Kelly, and Ailes. That may be wishful thinking. As an Ailes friend told me today: “Roger can’t turn back. The entire credibility of Fox as powerbroker rests on Trump being destroyed.”
Yes Donald Trump is thin-skinned, but what politician isn’t? It’s not just Bret Baier, Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly. Old GOP-e/Bush hucksters like Brit Hume and Charles Krauthammer just can’t help themselves by not bashing Trump. Add Dana Perino and mental midget Greg Gutfeld and you could understand why Trump, thin skinned and all is so pissed.