Over the course of his first few months back in the White House, Donald Trump has made no secret of his irritation with Fox News personalities and other key cogs of Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire that he believes aren’t showing him the proper amount of loyalty and obsequiousness.
With the president’s poll numbers cratering amid a spate of self-imposed crises and accusations of authoritarianism, Trump has increasingly lashed out at Murdoch world for allowing some form of criticism against him to seep through Fox and News Corp’s pages and airwaves.