Barring a last-minute change of heart, Donald Trump is set to snub Fox News this week in a sign of how deeply the relationship has fractured between the former US president and the television channel that helped propel his ascent to the White House seven years ago.
Rupert Murdoch’s cable powerhouse is hosting the first Republican primary debate during primetime Wednesday evening, unofficially kicking off a frenetic US presidential election media cycle that is a crucial period for the Fox News profit machine.
Yet Trump is skipping the proceedings in Milwaukee and reportedly plans to upstage the network by giving an interview to Tucker Carlson, the former Fox star who was fired earlier this year. Carlson is expected to stream the pre-recorded interview on Elon’s Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, The Wall Street Journal reported.