Post from Truth Social

Fox recast as a defector

The complaint starts with network coverage in general and narrows to a single interview: "his softball interview by Martha MacCallum." The next sentence shows what actually hurt: "She never interviews me like that." The stated objection is media bias toward Democrats, but the comparison is personal. A host he counts as friendly territory gave a rival warmer treatment than he gets. The post ends on a verdict about the network's moral state, "They have totally lost their way!", which compresses a contamination sequence into one line. An outlet that used to be loyal is now treated as fallen.

Read alongside the same morning's posts, this one completes a ledger. Earlier he wrote that his rally crowds were such that "Nobody has ever seen anything like it" and thanked "the great Networks that are covering the Rallies in full. They are being rewarded with BIG RATINGS." Here the other side gets settled: Fox does not "show my record breaking Rallies the morning after," so Fox is "promoting the Dumocrats." Networks are sorted by whether they broadcast him, and each one is paid in ratings or in public denunciation. The timing helps explain the pressure. A weak September jobs report and a Dayton-area rally held days after nearly 1,400 layoffs left little outside evidence for the momentum story ("We are flipping races all over the place"). Crowds became the proof of that story, so a network that won't air them threatens the proof.

The pattern is familiar from his history. He wrote "@FoxNews is not working for us anymore!" in August 2019, attacked the network over its 2020 Arizona call, and turned on it again when it gave airtime to rivals before the 2024 primaries. Each time, Fox's value depends on unbroken alignment, and one interview he doesn't like is enough to flip it from idealized to devalued.

The religious smear

The second target is Abdul El-Sayed, a physician, former Detroit health director, and Muslim Democrat running for Senate in Michigan. The only basis the post gives for "Jihadist" is who he is. The phrasing also widens the charge as it goes. "The Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates" pairs two categories. "Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed … and the like" then merges them into one class with members beyond him. "Good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again" sits on the other side of a clean split.

Calling a named candidate in a live race a holy-war terrorist puts a violent association on a specific person, and that is what puts this post above routine media grievance. What keeps it from rating higher is the lack of any call to action. Nothing like "get rid of" appears, and the label is used as an insult rather than as an accusation tied to an alleged act. Still, the target is real, identifiable and campaigning in public.

Defenses and audience management

• Devaluation: "Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA."
• Distortion: the post claims the network covers Democrats more than the party it is widely seen as aligned with. That rewrites the facts to fit the injury.
• Rationalization: the clause "but others do, and that's what MAGA is watching" shrinks the loss. If the audience has already moved to friendlier outlets, Fox's snub costs nothing.
• Epistemic closure: the same clause tells followers which outlets count, so even Fox's coverage becomes something MAGA can ignore.

Voice and timing

Posted at 9:50 a.m. Eastern. He was most likely in Washington before the Nebraska trip he mentioned that morning ("I am heading there today!"). Business hours point toward staff, but the text points the other way:

• a host named from what he apparently just watched
• an aside about himself in the middle of a complaint about someone else ("She never interviews me like that")
• the "Dumocrat" coinage and "FoxNews" run together
• a drift from Fox's coverage, to one interview, to his own treatment, to rally broadcasts

The "President DJT" sign-off appears on several of that day's posts, including more polished ones, so it does not help tell him from staff. The Howard Kessler post the same morning, with its brochure phrasing ("bring together the best Doctors, Researchers"), reads very differently from this one.

The syntax holds together. The associative drift fits how he has written for decades and is not a new pattern. "Dumocrat" is a deliberate, repeated insult, not a language error.

Fact Verification

What MacCallum challenged him on:

• She opened with a clip of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani describing socialism.
• She pressed him on Medicare for All, arguing European systems leave patients waiting too long.
• She cited weak fourth-grade reading scores to ask why government would run health care well.
• On terrorism, she asked whether his focus on the causes of attacks implied the U.S. was partly to blame.
• On Iran, she said Iran had been violating the JCPOA and posed a "huge threat", raised the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, and cited a WSJ report on Strait of Hormuz oil flows.
• On money, she confronted him over a Los Angeles fundraiser hosted by Jeffrey Soros and a $30 million Senate Majority PAC pledge, given that he campaigns against big money in politics.
• She interrupted him ("I can't let you filibuster!") and he pushed back ("Can you answer my question?").

How it was covered:

• Mediaite called it a "fiery marathon interview" in which the two "slugged it out" over Iran.
• Raw Story (left-leaning) framed El-Sayed as having "wrecked" her.
• Fox's own account and RedState (as cited by a Substack critique) treated the donor questions as tough, with RedState calling the Soros exchange damaging to him.
• Outside Trump's post and outlets echoing it (Gateway Pundit), no account found calls it soft.
• The next day, October 6, MacCallum pressed Republican Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers on his shifting Iran statements ("So, which is it?"). That undercuts the idea that she goes easy on Democrats only.

The only kernel behind Trump's complaint is the interview's length. He said at his Grand Island rally that "They let this guy talk, talk, talk." A long segment gave El-Sayed substantial airtime, but the record shows sustained, pointed questioning, not softballs. | | "Fox does not show his rallies the morning after while other networks do" | Mostly False | Media-monitoring evidence shows Fox did air rally coverage, including the morning after, though briefly and rarely live or in full.

What Fox aired:

• Rally night, October 3: Fox did not carry the Vandalia, Ohio speech live. It ran a report at the top of the hour and showed Vivek Ramaswamy warming up the crowd.
• Morning after, October 4: a Snapstream search reported by Mediaite and TheWrap found that Fox & Friends Weekend aired a segment on the rally, focused on Trump's remarks about AI data centers. It aired before Trump's 9:11 a.m. post claiming the show was "not covering" it, and was the only mention of that rally on the network.
• Hannity cut in and aired 36 uninterrupted minutes of the October 1 Oklahoma rally.
• On Monday, October 5, after Trump's complaints, Fox opened The Five and The Will Cain Show with rally clips.
• For the Grand Island, Nebraska rally (the night before this October 6 post), Fox News streamed it live on its X account ("WATCH LIVE: President Trump holds midterm election rally in Nebraska"). Foxnews.com also posted rally clips dated October 5 and 6, including one of Trump signing the diesel executive order onstage.
• No record was found of what Fox & Friends aired specifically on the morning of October 6.

What other outlets did:

• Pro-Trump streamers such as RSBN carried the rallies in full.
• NBC's Today ran a roughly two-minute segment on the Ohio rally.
• Omaha station WOWT said the full Grand Island rally would not air on broadcast television and streamed it in its app instead.
• Mainstream networks (CNN, MS NOW) generally aired only short or critical clips.
• CNN's Brian Stelter guessed Fox sees the rallies as "not a ratings magnet right now," which he presented as speculation.

The kernel of truth: Fox rarely carries the rallies live or in full, and its morning-after coverage was thin. The claim that Fox doesn't show them, while others do, is contradicted by the documented segments. | | "His rallies are "record breaking"" | False | Trump names no record, and no outlet, venue or local official reports one for any rally in the October 2026 swing. The venues were small by his own past standards, and some were not full.

The rallies:

• Durant, Oklahoma (October 1): the Choctaw Event Center was configured for about 3,000 to 4,000 people. It filled, and some supporters were turned away.
• Denton, Texas (October 1): a ticketed factory-floor event at a Peterbilt plant. No attendance estimate was found.
• Mobile, Alabama (October 2): about 8,000 people in the roughly 10,000-seat Mitchell Center, per the Alabama Reflector. The New York Times reported the arena was not full, with some upper sections almost entirely empty. In 2015, about 30,000 people attended his rally in a Mobile stadium.
• Vandalia, Ohio (October 3): a high school gym the Ohio High School Athletic Association lists at 4,500 capacity. The Washington Post put the crowd above 4,000. NBC reported several stretches of empty upper bleachers when Trump took the stage, and more by the end of his 93-minute speech. His 2016 visit to the same town drew about 10,000. At this rally Trump himself said that "when I don't run, they draw 44% less people."
• Grand Island, Nebraska (October 5): the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center filled to its fire-code capacity of about 5,800, and police said several thousand more were turned away. This is a genuine full house, but a small venue, and no one reported it as a record.

A Daily Beast/PunchUp analysis found crowds as much as 75% smaller than at comparable events a decade ago. Trump said at the 2024 Vandalia rally that "a small rally is 20,000 people," and every 2026 venue holds well under that. Trump disputes reports of empty seats ("I never have empty seats"), but offers no figures.

Some rallies were packed, but nothing supports "record breaking." |

Overall Veracity: 8%