President Trump does not want to be subjected to even a minute of news unless it's delivered by Fox & Friends, which is why he flew into a rage when he found a television on Air Force One tuned to CNN.
The New York Times has viewed an email chain between officials from the White House Military Office and the White House Communications Agency, which goes into detail about a recent Air Force One incident involving Trump, a TV, and (gasp!) CNN. After boarding the plane, Trump discovered that first lady Melania Trump's television was set to CNN, which set him off. He considers the network "fake news," and apparently, it's an informal rule that each trip must start with the TVs tuned to Fox News.
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