With a friend like Donald Trump, who needs enemies? At least that’s what Fox News is discovering.
Trump took time out of his very busy schedule to renew his attacks on his favorite news source today, complaining that the network’s pollsters aren’t favorable enough to him after claiming the news organization had been “Proud Warriors” for him in the run-up to the 2016 presidential 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,” he tweeted, using the nickname he has assigned to former Vice President Joe Biden.
.@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
The poll he appears to be referencing shows the president losing a handful of hypothetical matchups against 2020 Democratic front-runners.
The national survey said Trump would lose to Biden by 10 percentage points and to Sen. Bernie Sanders by 6 points. It showed him beating Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, though, by 1 point, slim differences within the poll’s margin of error, which is 3 percentage points.
Biden wasted no time to mock Trump over the results of the poll:
.@realDonaldTrump, we know you love the polls. We’re glad you saw the latest from Fox: Biden 49%, Trump 39. You’re losing by ten. Have a nice day.
— Team Joe (@TeamJoe) July 26, 2019
Trump argued that despite a number of setbacks for has administration like the Mueller investigation, which he ripped as “a three year vicious Witch Hunt, perpetrated by the Lamestream Media in Collusion with Crooked and the Democrat Party,” there is “NO WAY” that he could “be losing to the Sleepy One” because of the strength of the economy under his watch.
Friday’s screed is the latest attack on a network that has constantly boosted the president and his administration.
But he has recently knocked the network for hosting town halls with his potential rivals in next year’s election, events that have been ratings successes, and gone after its news anchors who he has deemed unfairly critical compared with their opinion show counterparts.
But despite his complaints, he continues to appear on the network, phoning into Sean Hannity’s show Thursday night for a freewheeling 25-minute conversation.