Trump reportedly 'railed about Fox' more than election results

Donald Trump.
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President Trump has just about had it with Fox News, The Washington Post reports.

Despite maintaining warm relations with individual hosts, Trump's animosity toward what has traditionally been his favorite news network has been building over the last several months, reportedly in part because Fox refused to grant his re-election campaign a bulk discount advertising deal. The cold war may have reached a tipping point last week after Fox made an early call on Arizona for the president's Democratic challenger, now President-elect Joe Biden.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.