Trump will not be deprived of his time at Fox News

He got to "the apprentice" too. The notes of the first season were solid; the finale of this season's first show won the week, the only time she would. But in the second season, things faded. Several million fewer people listened to each week than during the previous season, and the finale drew fewer viewers than any episode of the first season. The magic was not exactly part, but the novelty was.

Wednesday night, Politico announced that Fox News, the latest adherents of the "everyone" philosophy of Donald-Trump-Rally Live, withdrew from this policy. Fox News had been a respite for President Trump, who praised the network for presenting his rallies, while other networks were broadcasting another cover. Anyway, we could count on Fox to stick to the riffs and the rants of the president, probably to the delight of his listeners.

But Trump has already held six rallies this month, up to now in 60% of October evenings. It's a lot of time to spend on what is essentially the same thing over and over again. Trump does not talk about the stumps, but he has a stump style. Choose a series of four sentences from any of his recent events and they could probably be inserted, unedited, into any of the others. Why continue to show it? According to Politico, Trump Show ratings began to slide below the usual ratings for the network's prime time shows.

So Trump was hit. On Wednesday night, while Trump was organizing a rally in Pennsylvania, Fox aired the show "The Story With Martha MacCallum."

Asked about the withdrawal of Trump's rallies, White House officials, whose name was not revealed, told Politico that they "planned" to address this issue, pointing out that the current director of communications of President Bill Shine is Fox News' senior programming position.

Whether or not Shine's work, Trump quickly returned to Fox News. At 9:20 pm – a little over an hour after the publication of the article Politico – Fox sent an alert: Trump would be interviewed at 11 am by host Shannon Bream. Thursday morning, another late notice. Shortly before 7 am, the network informed the audience that the president would also call "Fox and Friends", his favorite cable television show in the morning.

Trump's conversation with Bream and his call to "Fox and Friends" – a show Trump had previously agreed to provide a weekly commentary – were stretched for almost an hour, combined. On the morning schedule only, Trump was given more than half an hour to expose on the subject of his choice, vaguely corralled by the ever generous hosts of the show. But since it was an interview and not a rally, Fox broadcast it in its entirety, as well as other members of the media who may not be much interested in a rally. campaign.

To what extent was Trump worried about giving the media the right to ask any questions they wished? Well, a sign that Trump is not particularly worried about Fox News presenters' pressure is that he included Fox News interviews twice last month. in his rallies. He made it clear he was indifferent to "Fox and Friends", especially when he had denigrated fake media during Thursday's interview, citing a limited exception for Fox News and an exception complete for their broadcast. For most journalists, it would be embarrassing to be told that you were so insecure that the topics of your interviews embraced it. The hosts at the Fox laughed with pleasure.

It is important to note that this is a key moment for Trump not to be cut off from access to an audience. Of course, the reason he participates in so many rallies is that the mid-term elections are looming. He needs this audience to bolster his party's electoral chances, just as he took advantage of his own protests for his political success in 2016. This is precisely the moment when Trump can least afford to escape projectors – especially on the network most followed by the base of his party.

So, what did Trump suggest in his two interviews? An uncontrolled stream of rhetoric, largely false. The accumulation of falsehoods and misrepresentations that are part of Trump's speech is now so dense that its dismantling requires more time than Trump's throwing away. This is also part of the plan: overwhelm the security teams so that they become useless.

Take four sentences from one of his interviews with Fox and insert them into one of his rallying speeches. See if you can spot the seams.