Trump Rages at Fox News For Not Mentioning Him, Calls George Bush Weak on Terrorism: Ask ‘RINO Paul RINO’ For ‘Permission to Use My Name’
Former President Donald Trump raged at Fox News and took a gratuitous shot at former President George W. Bush on Truth Social after Fox & Friends‘ Steve Doocy failed to mention him as during a discussion on counterterrorism policy Monday morning.
After a conversation with Fox’s Trey Yingst, who is on the ground in Israel, Doocy remarked, “I remember growing up, I remember Ronald Reagan was talking about the evil empire. I remember George Bush talked about the axis of evil, of course he was referring to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.”
“Well now there is a new axis of evil,” he continued before playing a clip of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent interview with Shannon Bream.
Somewhat bizarrely, Trump took great offense at Doocy’s failure to bring up Trump.
“Fox & Friends this morning stated that, under Ronald Reagan and George Bush (Which one?), there was a tough policy against Terrorists,” began Trump, seemingly misunderstanding the context of the conversation. “They’re wrong on Bush, but they left out one person—’TRUMP,’ who took out ISIS, al-Baghdadi, Soleimani, and everyone else who was in the way of Justice and Peace. Next time maybe they could ask their Bosses, like RINO Paul RINO, for permission to use my name. The good news is, based on the Polls, the PEOPLE understand!”
Trump’s memory of the Bush administration seemed to fail him the same way his memory of which Bush coined the “axis of evil” label did. George W. Bush’s War on Terror is widely regarded to constitute one of the most comprehensive counterterrorism efforts in the history of the world, and included two invasions of Middle Eastern countries as well as operations all over the globe.
Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is a board member of the Fox Corporation, Fox News’ parent company. Trump is often praised on the network, including by some of its biggest personalities, such as Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. The former president has nevertheless taken to deeming it a “hostile network” and launching frequent broadsides at it.