Former President Trump took a swipe at Steve Doocy, a long time host of the Fox News flagship morning program “Fox and Friends,” saying the broadcaster is not “nice like he should be.”
“You know, Steve Doocy’s interesting because he’s always been so nice to me for years, for years going back to 2016,” Trump said of Doocy during a new interview with The National Pulse. “But I, you know, I am loyal to people and I had a great relationship with him. But I would say over the last year, I don’t know, he just seems to be not nice like he should be. Maybe and maybe I’m wrong about that. But even this morning, Brian Kilmeade was actually very good. He’s actually changed.”
Trump has been critical of Fox for months and is an avid watcher of Fox and Friends, which he acknowledged during the interview with the National Pulse.
Earlier this week, he blasted the show and the network more broadly in a post on his “Truth Social” website calling it “totally unrecognizable.”
Trump, who is the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024, skipped the first GOP primary debate last month, which aired on Fox News. He will not attend Wednesday evening’s second debate, which will be broadcast on Fox Business Network.
Trump has cited a “hostile” relationship with Fox as his reason for skipping the debates, along with his large lead in most GOP primary polls.
The former president has, at the same time, made regular appearances on Fox, sitting for town hall style events with prime time hosts like Sean Hannity and participating in a straight news interview earlier this summer with Bret Baier, the network’s chief political anchor.