Fox Cuts Away from Trump Speech After He Bashes Network’s GOP Debate

While Fox News remains one of the few cable networks to air live remarks by Donald Trump, it showed Monday that it will still quickly pull the plug if the former president depicts the right-wing network in a bad light.

The network broadcasted Trump’s speech uninterrupted from when he began speaking at 2:52 p.m. EST until thirteen minutes into the next programming block, when he mentioned his absence from last month’s GOP primary debate, which Fox News hosted. “I was someplace else,” he told the crowd, referring to his friendly interview with Tucker Carlson, during which he explained that he bailed on getting on stage with other candidates to avoid being “harassed.”

Trump then dubiously claimed that “we had 271 million people listening to” his conversation with Carlson, who, as The Daily Beast reported earlier this year, has privately feuded with the network that fired him in April. (The 46-minute long video on X, formerly known as Twitter, currently only lists 266 million views, and merely scrolling past the post qualifies as a view, according to X, which adds that “multiple views may be counted if you view a post more than once.”)

Read more at The Daily Beast.