‘Fox & Friends’ anchor confronts Trump over his attacks against the network – By Mike Brest (Washington Examiner) / Aug 29 2019
Kilmeade interviewed Trump on his radio show Thursday morning. The interview took place a day after the president slammed Donna Brazile, Juan Williams, Shep Smith, and Sandra Smith for her interview with Democratic National Committee communications director Xochitl Hinojosa on Twitter.
“I’m not happy with Fox,” Trump replied after Kilmeade asked him about the tweets. “Look, Sean and Laura and Tucker have really been good — well, Tucker is a little tricky but that’s ok. But he’s been very good. Many of them, you guys in the morning, Ainsley, and Steve and you — I used to say you, you were a solid 6, maybe a 7. But you’re getting much better.”
The Fox & Friends host pushed back on the president arguing that there was a time where “we’d disagree” and it wouldn’t result in attacks.
“So I don’t understand,” he continued. “If Fox comes on and if somebody comes on and they’re critical of one thing about you. It never used to bother you like this. Now yesterday I read those tweets … I thought to myself what’s bothering you about it, because our channel prides itself on diversity and getting everybody in so you don’t have to flip around.”
Trump responded by shaming MSNBC and CNN for their coverage of him arguing that “they don’t have diversity meaning my view, they never put my view on.” He went on to claim that CNN is “begging me to do an interview” but he thinks “it would be disloyal to my followers.”
Kilmeade then agreed that he doesn’t think the president should do an interview with a different network.
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