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For years it has been speculated that Donald Trump is creating a station to broadcast his message. Meanwhile, the rumors go more in the direction of the Internet medium, because it is cheaper. One thing is for sure: Trump will not disappear.
Four years ago there was speculation: What will Donald Trump do if he loses the presidential election? It is not known if he asked this question in 2016. After the elections he got a job.
The most popular rumor at the time: Trump founds a television station. “Vanity Fair” reported at the time that he had already spoken with his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner about plans. “Whether we win or lose, we achieve something here,” the magazine quoted the then presidential candidate. What did you find? To the people who wanted to see it. About the audience. It bothered him, according to the magazine, that it raised media ratings and thus generated income for them, but he himself got nothing.
Trump will now have to quit the job he landed in 2016, even if he is still reluctant. That he withdraws from the public eye and paints pictures like George W. Bush did, or that he dedicates himself to a foundation like Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama, no one would believe it. “Win or lose, you will not be quiet,” wrote the New York Times the day after the election, when the outcome was still unclear. Trump has long been toying with the idea of starting his own television station to compete against Fox News.
“He wants to destroy Fox News”
This momentum is likely to have been further strengthened after election night. Even before CNN or MSNBC, stations that Trump calls “enemies of the people” and “fake news,” Fox News announced the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in Arizona. On election night, Trump is said to have called the station owner, Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and yelled at him. The break that had been on the horizon for some time now seemed complete.
Fox News has been one of the president’s most loyal and important supporters in recent years. During the election campaign, the station’s moderators raised their spirits against the Democrats with wild tirades and slandered them as “radical leftists.” As president, Trump himself kept calling the morning show “Fox & Friends” to talk to the moderators about all sorts of things, about the fact that he had not received a birthday present for his wife and also about politics. The questions, as Trump believes they should be for decent journalists, were not critical but submissive.
Trump has apparently abandoned the idea of his own television station. The news website Axios reports that Trump has a new plan: He wants to found a digital media company because it is cheaper and less expensive than a television station. That sounds plausible, especially since the outgoing president’s finances are said to be in poor shape. But it’s still about Fox News: Trump wants to “destroy” the station, Axios cites a source.
The crack goes through the ego
But maybe everything is completely different. The Washington Post, for example, speculates that Trump might go to Fox News as a commentator, because there was actually no rift between the two. It’s a kind of love-hate relationship on both sides: Radical Fox News commentators applaud everything the president does, while the news faction in the House occasionally lets out skeptical tones (this faction is said to have been responsible for Arizona as Victory for Biden was declared).
With Trump, on the other hand, the rift runs through your own ego. He’s still tweeting clips of his followers on Fox News: Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraha, Lou Dobbs. CNN journalist Brian Stelter even believes that Trump may be taking over a talk show on Fox News, for example inheriting Hannity. Stelter describes the relationship between the president and Murdoch as follows: “Trump and Fox partriarch Rupert Murdoch had a marriage of convenience for the past five years. Trump is threatening a divorce, but Fox is already familiar with these troublesome phases. “.
There could be a completely different solution. The “New York Post” revolver, which also belongs to the Murdoch empire, spreads the rumor that Trump could succeed Alex Trebek, the longtime host of the “Jeopardy” question and answer program who just passed away. For Trump, whose own television career began in 2004 with the reality show “The Apprentice,” it would be a return to the entertainment business, though of course it could be argued that he never abandoned it. Anyway, only one thing was and is important to Trump: that he has an audience to which he can tell how great he is and how bad everyone else is.
