President Trump regularly calls hosts of Fox News shows to discuss segments that he did or did not like, according to a new report. According to the report, the president critiques the network’s news coverage and discusses segments of their shows with the shows’ hosts.
“What he usually does is he’ll call after a show and say, ‘I really enjoyed that,’” a former Fox anchor told writer Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair magazine. “The highest compliment is, ‘I really learned something.’ Then you know he got a new policy idea,” the host is quoted as saying.
But some employees at Fox bristle at the closeness of the relationship between the president and the network. The president will often direct his followers on social media to watch certain segments of Fox News shows. “It’s freaky to see him tweeting at ‘Fox & Friends.” That doesn’t help us. We’re not state television,” a Fox News staff member recently told Variety.