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Fox News commentator tries to rail against Trump's latest Twitter rant, ends up looking even worse

Fox News commentator tries to rail against Trump's latest Twitter rant, ends up looking even worse
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Donald Trump's love affair with Fox News seems to have come to an abrupt end this week, after the president went on a Twitter rant complaining the network was reporting on the news, rather than serving as his personal cheerleader.

Trump's ire appears to have reared it's rage-tweeting orange head after the news organisation aired a segment on Wednesday that he considered to be promoting his Democrat rivals. So enraged was the president that couldn't stop himself from blasting a stereotypically furious tweet complete with randomly capped up words where he noted:

The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn't working for us anymore! [sic]

Fox commentator Brit Hume calmly tweeted back at the president, stating the obvious fact that media outlets are supposed to report on news, not offer blind support to a single candidate.

Which is a fair point.

This could have been a mic drop moment, however Matthew Dowd, a political analyst at ABC News, was unimpressed with Hume's comment, and pointed out that Fox has a history of pandering to the president.

Others have since chimed in echoing Dowd's argument.

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