Former President Donald Trump has had it with Fox News. He is now accusing the network that formerly toadied to his every wish, even allowing him a regular morning call on “Fox & Friends” during his presidency that at times lasted almost a full hour, of trying to undermine his 2024 campaign by deliberately using bad photos of him.
Anyone would think that a man who is dealing with countless lawsuits, indictments, upcoming trials and daily revelations of his misdeeds would have a lot of serious issues on his mind.
An exclusive and ongoing USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in thousands of legal actions in federal and state courts over the past three decades. The latest count is an astounding 4.095. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits.
But apparently that is not so. While most would agree that Donald Trump is far from being a handsome man, he does not agree, and he wants to make sure that the world sees him the way he sees himself.
As is his habit of frequently using the expression “everybody knows…”, ranting on his Truth Social platform he claimed it’s not just him who’s noticed. To believe him, his supporters are equally indignant about Fox’s unflattering coverage.
“Three people in New Hampshire asked me why FoxNews uses such ‘horrible’ pictures of me when doing or promoting a story,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“The coloring, distortions, everything are just so bad. They must sit and look at 100 different shots, and then take the 10 absolute worst. My staff has even complained about it for months, but to no avail. Fox is just bad news, but I’m leading in the Polls by record numbers, so perhaps their bull…. is just not working. They are down 37% for a reason!”
Trump is notoriously vain, to the extent that he reportedly had his official presidential photographer carry a stool so that she could take photos from angles that made him look taller and slimmer.
His noted biographer, Michael D’Antonio, author of several books on Donald Trump and reputed to know him better than anyone, stated, “Trump never seems satisfied with his status. In a particularly tacky move, he frequently called the editors of Forbes, who publish the annual list of the richest Americans, to say that he should be included when he was not, or that his fortune was bigger than they reported.”
So it should come as no surprise that Trump, who has inadvertently admitted to being perpetually immature by saying, “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same…the temperament is not that different” is still bullying publishers and networks to make him look good—and when they don’t, he makes sure they hear about it.
