DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Not for nothing was Donald Trump inducted into the WWE wrestling hall of fame in 2013. The man knows how to stage a fake fight—like his current brawl with the Fox News Channel. On Wednesday [8-28-19], he mounted a three-tweet attack on Rupert Murdoch’s channel. He savaged it for covering the Democrats, for hiring Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, for keeping Juan Williams and Shep Smith on the payroll, and he invited its viewers to stop watching his once-favorite channel…This tantrum followed a similar surge of fury from Trump in March, when he denounced Fox’s weekend anchors, asking whether they had been trained by CNN. Happy to play the fall guy in the match, Fox anchors pushed back on this latest iteration of Trump’s bogus ‘Fox is being mean to me’ storyline. Three minutes after Trump’s first Wednesday tweet, anchor emeritus Brit Hume charged onto Twitter to throw the president in a headlock. ‘Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you,’ Hume wrote.”
–Jack Shafer, “The Fake Feud Between Trump and Fox,” Politico, August 30, 2019