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THIS IS WHAT TRUMP FASCISM LOOKS LIKE!
Former President Trump criticized Fox News in an interview Friday for airing negative political ads attacking him, saying he would appeal directly to media mogul Rupert Murdoch to remove them from the network.
“In the old days, you never played negative ads. In other words, when I leave here, I’ll then be hit by five or six ads,” Trump said Friday during an in-studio interview on “Fox & Friends,” the network’s flagship morning show.
“You mean Fox News?” host Brian Kilmeade interjected.
“When I leave, I’ll have 12 people from Kamala on, and pretty much unopposed,” Trump said. “For 19 days, I don’t think we should do that anymore. I think you shouldn’t play negative ads. It’s very tough.”
“You do a show — and I complain all the time. I love complaining,” he added. “I like to have everything perfect. But when I leave here … it’s sort of a net neutral.”
Before the former president left the show’s signature couch, he said he plans to meet Friday with Murdoch, the founder of Fox Corp. and the company’s longtime executive chair, and voice his displeasure with ads the network airs that are critical of him — and bringing on a myriad of guests on shows who are not supportive of him.
“I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch,” the former president continued. “I don’t know if he’s thrilled that I say it … and I’m going to tell him something very simple … don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days and don’t put on … they’re horrible people that come on and lie. I’m going to say, ‘Rupert, please do it this way.'”
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@stevejamieson8468 “I am a victim,” he said in his speech announcing his presidential run. “I will tell you I’m a victim.”
“V” used to be for victory. For Trump, it stands for victimhood, a status that conservatives disdain in every other context but that the former president has used to his advantage.
Trump has created a dynamic for his supporters where the more seemingly victimized he is, the better.
He’s a victim because he’s strong and has stirred the hornet’s nest in a way no one else would dare.
He’s a victim because the system is rigged against him and anyone who challenges it.
He’s a victim because he’s so closely identified with his supporters, who have been, likewise, allegedly treated unfairly by large-scale economic and social forces. “We will be attacked,” he told his fans at his announcement. “We will be slandered. We will be persecuted just as I have been.”
In other words, Trump’s self-described victimhood accords with his populism, which tends to see people, writ large, as being victimized by a corrupt elite.
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