Trump and Fox Prepare for Marriage Counseling

President Trump Holds MAGA Rally In Las Vegas
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Tara Palmeri
August 23, 2022

The epic and occasionally saga-like relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News—their lovers’ quarrels and occasional feuds interrupting long periods when only an invisible line separated the network from the West Wing—is the stuff of media legend, the content of best-sellers and documentaries, and the syllabus material of political science courses for the rest of time. Trump, of course, began the relationship as a frequent caller to whom Roger Ailes gifted a weekly slot on Fox & Friends to wax on about politics. Others at the network didn’t take him seriously until they did, ostensibly to the mild vexation of Rupert Murdoch, who nevertheless opportunistically, and then mega-enthusiastically, abetted his election and presidency through various executive orders and impeachments.