Donald Trump boycotting Fox News for ‘treating me very unfairly’

Donald Trump decided to go after Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly again last night and this latest round of insults culminated with his decision to boycott the network. He also called pundit Bill O’Reilly's show “boring” on Monday night.

 

image courtesy of INFphoto.comOn Monday, Trump first complained that O’Reilly “was very negative to me” by not mentioning recent NBC News polls that put him ahead in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He also criticised O’Reilly for having the “same old Trump haters” on The O’Reilly Factor.

.@oreillyfactor was very negative to me in refusing to to post the great polls that came out today including NBC. @FoxNews not good for me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015

.@oreillyfactor, why don't you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2015

Trump continued to go back and forth with followers about why he doesn’t like Fox News and then decided to take another swipe at Kelly.

Do you ever notice that lightweight @megynkelly constantly goes after me but when I hit back it is totally sexist. She is highly overrated!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2015

I think @megynkelly should take another eleven day "unscheduled" vacation.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2015

This all led to Trump eventually deciding this afternoon that he will not appear on Fox News for the “foreseeable future.”

.@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2015

It appears that the origin of this latest round of back-and-forth between Fox News and Trump started on Monday, when they cancelled his scheduled appearance on O’Reilly. A spokeswoman for the network told the Associated Press that Trump’s behavior has “grown stale and tiresome.”

Trump and Fox News have been at it since the first GOP debate, when Kelly brought up Trump’s misogynistic comments on Twitter. Trump continued to insult Kelly on Twitter and Fox News chief Roger Ailes demanded an apology. As Politico points out, the two sides did reach a truce, but obviously that is over once again.