This summer at the Republican National Convention, the Trump campaign did an elaborate troll of Fox News that saw Donald Trump Jr. bring the exiled Tucker Carlson to a Fox appearance, making a number of Carlson’s old colleagues “clearly uncomfortable,” as NOTUS’ Reese Gorman reported at the time.
It was all part of a very public effort to tear down Fox News’ credibility with the MAGA set after months of frustration. Then-candidate Donald Trump posted in June that “Nobody can trust” Fox, and there was a broad feeling in Trumpworld that the network was backing Ron DeSantis in the primary. Trump Jr. had even claimed he’d been blocked from going on Fox until Sean Hannity stepped in.
That was then. Now, a Fox News gig — or at least regular appearances — seems to be the golden ticket into President-elect Trump’s cabinet.