President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Fox News and anchor Martha MacCallum on Tuesday, knocking MacCallum for her interview with Abdul El-Sayed.
MacCallum sparred with El-Sayed, the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. Senate, during a heated interview on her show Monday. Trump, however, panned the exchange as "softball" and lamented, "She never interviews me like that."
In a Truth Social post, the president accused the network of favoring Democrats over Republicans.
"FoxNews spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum, and the like," Trump wrote.
He continued, "She never interviews me like that. They don't show my record breaking Rallies the morning after, but others do, and that's what MAGA is watching. Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA. They have totally lost their way!"
The broadside comes despite the long-standing close relationship between Trump and Fox News. The leading cable news network features some of the president's closest allies in the media, including veteran hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Trump did not stop there. In a follow-up post, he turned his fire to the network's coverage of a Senate race in Nebraska.
"FoxNews is long form interviewing the sleazebag, Dan Osborn, right now, who is running against our GREAT Republican Senator, Pete Ricketts, from Nebraska. Why are they doing this??? The 'other side' doesn't give our people any positive exposure or airtime. It is a miracle that I won, the last by a landslide, three Presidential Races! President DJT," he wrote.
It is not the first time in recent weeks that the president has gone after the network. In late September, Trump took issue with the Democrats he said were appearing on Fox.
"Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans," he wrote on Truth Social.
"This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It's truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on!" Trump added.
He later followed up with another message: "Our Nation is doing really well, in many ways, better than ever before, but the Public just doesn't know how well we're doing. The Fake News Media refuses to disseminate our Record Setting Numbers, so I'm doing the best I can to do it myself!"
Notably, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., very rarely appear on the network. Jeffries last appeared on the Sunday Briefing in June, while Schumer has not been on in years.
The president also fumed at Fox after it parted ways with Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo allegedly relayed internal guidance about some of Trump's recent election rigging claims to Trump aide Peter Navarro.
