President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News.Pool / ABACA / GTRES
The turning point occurred on election night.
Ivanka Trump relived the 2016 elections on Twitter and the red-tinted Republican map filled Donald Trump's campaign team with optimism.
But at 11:20 p.m. and with 73% of the vote counted, Fox News awarded Arizona to Democrat Joe Biden.
It was the first state to change parties with respect to what was voted four years ago and the fact that the president's favorite television station announced it so early, even before the major progressive media, ended up ruining the evening.
The outrage escalated to the point that Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, phoned Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch to complain.
Since then, Trump has started a smear campaign against the company, encouraging his followers to watch other news channels;
some who do not recognize Biden as president-elect.
The biggest difference for Trump between the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, curiously, is not the result, but Fox News.
So he said this morning in a tweet in which he referred to the drop in viewership in daytime programs and the "even WORSE" figures for the weekend.
"They forgot the Golden Goose," he wrote, an expression whose free translation would be the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Apparently he was referring to him.
In addition to the criticism, he retweeted a battery of messages from his followers who complained about the coverage of the conservative chain since last Tuesday: some said it was being "unfair", others "dishonest", and there was one that even assured that Fox News was "dead."
Most of the tweets reproduced by the US president mentioned that he would leave the network and start watching OANN or Newsmax TV.
The latter is characterized by extolling the figure of Trump and in the last week has promoted the unfounded accusation that there was electoral fraud, in addition to other conspiracy theories.
Although because of their small size they don't have to project who the winner is, in the world of Newsmax TV Joe Biden is not the president-elect.
It is to the right of Fox News and the promotion that the president is doing of its content is working.
Finally, there are hundreds of thousands of Trump followers who believe that there was some type of irregularity in the vote counting and that in the largest television networks they cannot find a speech that reflects their anguish.
Late-night Newsmax TV shows such as
Spicer & Co
and
Greg Kelly Reports
barely scored 100,000 viewers before last week's election.
Now they are reaching between 700,000 and 800,000 viewers.
His numbers have nothing to do with the 1.86 million Fox averages, but he possibly has Murdoch's channel taking notice.
Trump has reason to take some of the credit for Fox News' high viewership numbers.
The network bet on the Republican long before his first nomination for the presidency.
Since then, they have fed back.
When 60% of Republicans identify the network as their most trusted outlet, the two win when a close relationship is cultivated.
But that union that was literally visible during the four years of Administration seems to be reaching its decline.
This week Fox News cut off the transmission of a press conference by the White House spokeswoman for spreading unfounded accusations of fraud and as
Axios
published this Wednesday
, Trump intends to start his own digital media company and undermine Fox News.
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