President Donald Trump melted down at Fox News host Shannon Bream after her Sunday broadcast failed to flatter him.
The TV-obsessed president appeared to have tuned into Bream’s program on Sunday morning, where the Fox News host grilled Trump’s handpicked attorney general Todd Blanche over the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization” fund and pressed him on why the president is building the White House ballroom without congressional authorization.
Trump, 80, erupted at Bream, 55, in a 340-word Truth Social tirade after the show, fuming, “Watching Fox News with Shannon Bream is always like watching the Worst of Fake News CNN.”
He continued, “I don’t know Shannon, but she always seems to pick guests, charts, and ‘polls’ that are negative, never talking about all of the incredible things that the Trump Administration has done.”
He rattled down a list of dubious supposed accomplishments, including claiming that the United States is “more RESPECTED throughout the World than at any time in Memory” and that he achieved “the essential Denuclearization of Iran.”
“Yet, week after week, I see Shannon ‘interviewing’ hostile guests,” he wrote, singling out Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, who had called Trump an “unpopular president” on Bream’s program on Sunday.
“In any event, Shannon’s ‘show’ is beyond redemption,” the thin-skinned president said. “Fortunately, MAGA, which is close to 100% of the Republican Party, understands that, and watch her ‘Ratings’ start to fall.”
In reality, ratings for Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream have remained relatively steady, with the show drawing roughly 1 million viewers each Sunday, according to USTVDB.
“Oh well, it couldn’t have had too much of an impact,” Trump wrote, seemingly trying to shrug off Bream’s influence, before boasting that he was heading to the Oval Office to work on more “TRIUMPHS” and “SUCCESSES” for the country.
During Bream’s show, however, Williams pointed to Fox News’ own poll showing Trump’s popularity underwater, with just 39 percent of Americans approving of his performance as president compared to 61 percent disapproving.
But Bream may have hit a particularly sensitive nerve when she questioned Trump’s ballroom, which has emerged as one of his top priorities even as Americans struggle with soaring prices amid his quagmire war with Iran.
“Why not just go to Congress?” Bream asked Blanche in reference to a court ruling that ordered Trump to halt construction on the ballroom because Congress has not approved the project.
“We don’t believe we have to go to Congress,” replied Blanche, the president’s former personal lawyer. “We believe Congress has already given us the authority to do what we’re doing.”
Trump has gotten into the habit of launching personal attacks on female journalists who ask questions he doesn’t like, repeatedly telling CNN host Kaitlan Collins to “smile more,” calling 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O’Donnell a “disgrace,” and barking “quiet piggy” at Bloomberg News correspondent Catherine Lucey.
The Daily Beast has reached out to Fox News for comment.
