Did you hear that? It was the sound of Donald Trump completely losing his shit after what his frenemy Rupert Murdoch said to a roomful of News Corp stockholders this week.
The 90-year-old media mogul told the group that the ex-president’s constant complaining about the 2020 election is getting in the way of conservatives moving their agenda forward, adding that it’s time for him to put on his big boy pants and move on from the the past.
“The current American political debate is profound, whether about education or welfare or economic opportunity,” Murdoch, whose family controls Fox News’s parent company, Fox Corp, told stockholders. “It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past.”
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Trump has spent most of the last year obsessing over his loss in the 2020 presidential race. On a near-daily basis, he’s has made false allegations about massive voter fraud contributing to his ego-crushing defeat.
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There has been no substantive evidence of widespread fraud, and GOP officials in multiple key states have maintained that their elections were properly conducted.
Murdoch doesn’t often publicly comment about his relationship with Trump, though in his 2018 book Fire and Fury, author Michael Wolff wrote that the Fox News founder once dismissed the then-president as a “f*cking idiot.”
In 2015, when Trump was first running for president, Murdoch tweeted: “When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?” His tone, of course, changed once Trump’s candidacy surged.
When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let
alone the whole country?— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) July 19, 2015
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
Countries where Murdoch owns media have had a corresponding rise in right wing, Neo Nazi behavior. Republicans changed the laws to allow him to consolidate his media empire here and he has been paying them back ever since.
Jim
Rupert Rupert Rupert. Donald will never stop embarrassing the country. The only question is can it survive him..
Careful what you wish for Rupert.
Mister P
When will Rupert stop taking money for damn lies?
barryaksarben
Britain kicked RUperts ass out of England because of his illegal methods of getting or inventing news. too bad we cant get rid of him to. He is why we had trump in the first place. he is a racist facist pig and cant go away soon enough
Mr. Stadnick
Rupert Murdock plus a whole lot of other ignorant racists are part of the reason we had trump. This is an extremely hate filled country. The education system has failed us and “christian” brain washing has taken over.
Openminded
Jeez people. Rupert just called out Trump for exactly the right reason and you people accuse him of lying. Everything this article states he said is spot on the truth. I don’t care if Trump grows up or not, but the Republican party better be listening to Rupert on this as it is their only chance of survival.
Please read and comprehend before getting your panties in a wad.
redzebra1
He isn’t lying here. The point was that his media outlets peddle right–wing lies for his corporate and political interests. e does. They’re tabloids
WSnyder
This is a modern-day example of the cautionary tale of compromising truth and values to use people and agendas for your own ends and then getting bitten in the ass for doing so. The ‘Conservatives’ got behind Trump ignoring the danger and not understanding or caring about his self-obsession with ego and power. They thought that they could use and also ‘control’ him. They saw his self-obsession before and during the campaign but he was able to say things that fomented the hate of the ultra-right and in turn the bigotry and racism that played well enough to wake up enough of the GOP base to galvanize the party.
They wanted someone to push the Conservative agenda, get more right-wing judges into office [looking at You Mitch McConnell], moving the Conservative beliefs of Pro-Business/Pro-Corporate policy [looking at you Kevin McCarthy] and Conservative values against the liberal left [looking at you Steve Bannon]. They just didn’t care who could do it and once Trump came closer to locking in the GOP nomination, they ignored his worst impulses and jumped onboard his bandwagon. Trump in turn, running to build his ‘Brand’ [and not initially in it to become President] was only to happy to accept their backing. After all, that vindicated and contributed to his Brand building. The Conservatives thought they could contain him. Both sides had their agendas, and they were moving in the same direction because they were appealing to the same ‘Base’ of people. It’s just the Conservatives sold their souls to a man for which ‘Truth’ and ‘Honor’ meant so little.
redzebra1
Word1 You’ve summed it up perfectly. I’m sure the German Right complained about Hitler outmaneuvering them after the passage of the Enabling Act in 1933! Sour-grapes from these right-wing pricks is always the same. They thought they could control the political monster then bitch afterwards when it breaks free and endangers their electoral prospects afterwards because they’re tainted. Pathetic!
Openminded
Very true, Snyder. I’m just dumbfounded that the right wing supporters can’t open their eyes and realize just how badly Trump has taken them for a ride. It appears the GOP is willing to stay on his train all the way to the bottom of the canyon.
CityguyUSA
Maybe Trump could be elected in Nicaragua!