Why does Fox News never allow President Trump on their network?
They’re propping up the other candidates shamelessly.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 27, 2023
Fox News is also in on the Democrat conspiracy to promote Ron DeSantis as the Republican nominee so that when the Democrats hoax the next election no one complains about it.
Also, they might even actually make Ron DeSantis president to start a war with the Chinese (something which Trump would not be interested in). CPAC is happening right now and the whole thing is about the Chinese.
Fox News has imposed a “soft ban” on Donald Trump appearing on the channel, his inner circle is reportedly complaining, even as the broadcaster extends a warm invitation to other Republican hopefuls in next year’s presidential election.
The news startup Semafor reports that the cooling of relations between the former president and his once-beloved cable news channel has gone so far that a “soft ban” or “silent ban” is now holding Trump at arm’s length. The former US president has not made a weekday showing on Fox News since he chatted with his closest friend among the network’s star hosts, Sean Hannity, in September.
Meanwhile, Trump’s rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are currently frequent guests on Fox. Media Matters for America, a watchdog that keeps a close eye on the network’s output, has counted seven weekday appearances by the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley since she launched her presidential bid last month.
Even the lesser known right-wing activist and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who threw his hat into the ring last week, has appeared four times on Fox. Florida’s rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, who is widely expected to compete with Trump though he has yet to declare, is also repeatedly seen on the network.
Semafor said it based its story on information supplied by four members of Trump’s circle. It quoted an unnamed individual “close to Trump” saying: “Everyone knows that there’s this ‘soft ban’ or ‘silent ban’. It’s certainly – however you want to say, quiet ban, soft ban, whatever it is – indicative of how the Murdochs feel about Trump in this particular moment.”
The Guardian asked Fox News to confirm or deny the existence of such a ban, but did not immediately receive a reply.
I will say this about Trump: he is dumping all of his own potential publicity by refusing to use Twitter now that he’s unbanned. No one goes on Truth Social, so no one has any idea what he is saying, and because no one knows what he’s saying, the media doesn’t feel a need to report on it.
I actually can’t believe how stupid of a decision it is to not use Twitter.
Probably, Trump’s advisors are telling him Truth Social gets more traffic than Twitter.
(He has some exclusive deal on the site, but whatever that is worth, the publicity he’d get by being on Twitter is worth millions of times more. This is really just very goofy decision-making.)
Sen. Schumer: “[Trump’s] a duplicitous character. But my strong belief is that if there were no Fox News, his ‘Big Lie’ wouldn’t have gotten anywhere. Fox News was the giant megaphone.” https://t.co/jjoIPXX5Ua pic.twitter.com/X6rym757NY
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 3, 2023