‘It Sucks!!!’ Trump Bitterly Rages Against Fox News and Calls for Heads to Roll at The Wall Street Journal in Truth Social Tirade
President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick listen and Rupert Murdoch listen in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Washington, as Trump prepares to sign an executive order. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump raged against both Fox News and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, targeting two of the most influential conservative media outlets in the country, both of which are owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so,” wrote Trump in a Truth Social tirade. “This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years. Also, and while he’s at it, he should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal. It sucks!!!”
Trump’s comments come one day after a new Fox News survey suggested that has the lowest approval rating (44%) of any president at the 100-day mark of his term of term in the poll’s history. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they affirmatively disapproved of Trump’s job performance to date.
The survey also showed that voters disapprove of the president on nearly every issue, with the lone exception being border security. He is well underwater on foreign policy (40%-54%), the economy (38%-56%), tariffs (33%-58%), and inflation (33%-59%).
The Journal‘s editorial board, meanwhile, has stood out as one of Trump’s most consistent right-wing critics in the early days of his term, knocking him on a wide variety of subjects including his friendly treatment of Vladimir Putin, his “layers of intellectual confusion” over monetary policy, and, most notably, his tariff-heavy trade policy.
In one recent editorial, the Journal characterized Trump’s tariffs as “the biggest threat to the world economy,” arguing that it “a sign of the magnitude of Mr. Trump’s tariff mistake” that investors are considering betting against the United States.
