Brit Hume, a senior political analyst for Fox News, echoed Mr. Cavuto’s comments and tweeted, “Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you.”
“We have tried to be fair to him in our news coverage,” Mr. Hume said in another tweet responding to someone who had asked why Mr. Trump thought Fox worked for him. “Best example: we didn’t fall for the Russia conspiracy theory that ended in such a fiasco for other outlets. Plus, some of our opinion hosts support Trump. (Others don’t.)”
Fox News declined to comment for this article. The White House declined to comment on Mr. Trump’s complaints about Fox News or Mr. Cavuto’s retort, preferring to leave the sparring to the president himself.
While in office, Mr. Trump has reserved his most cantankerous barbs for other news outlets. This week alone, he has attacked The New York Times, The Washington Post, Axios and NBC.
But the president has increased his criticism of Fox News in recent months. On Sunday, he said the network was “not what it used to be” when he expressed unhappiness with a poll. He has also attacked the Fox News contributor Donna Brazile, the anchors Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace, and the Fox analyst Juan Williams.
Early this month, Mr. Trump said that “watching Fake News CNN” was better than watching Mr. Smith’s show and that “whenever possible” he turned to the One America News Network. When Mr. Wallace interviewed the Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in May, Mr. Trump said Fox News was “moving more and more to the losing side.”
By Friday afternoon, it appeared that Mr. Trump had other targets on his mind.
Over the course of two hours, he had tweeted four videos on the Justice Department’s critical inspector general report regarding the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. All four clips featured guests criticizing Mr. Comey, and all four clips were from Fox News.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/business/media/trump-fox-news.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
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