President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on Fox News early Monday morning, accusing the conservative-leaning network of defending Democrats and trying “too hard to be Politically Correct” — and telling his supporters to watch his Kansas rally on the rival outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network instead. It is the latest escalation in which Trump attacks Fox News ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
The broadside, posted on his Truth Social platform on October 19, 2026, marks a sharp escalation in Trump’s weeks-long feud with the network that has spent years providing extensive coverage of his political movement. It also arrives at a delicate moment: with just 15 days until the November 3 midterm elections, Trump is crisscrossing the country to rally Republican voters — and now he is publicly steering those voters away from the cable giant.
“Fox spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at any time in the History of FoxNews,” Trump wrote, using his familiar insult for Democrats. “It’s ridiculous! FoxNews is trying too hard to be Politically Correct! Watch my big Kansas Rally today on RSBN. Great early coverage!”
- What Trump Wrote on Truth Social
- Why Trump Turned on Fox News
- Right Side Broadcasting Network: The Outlet Trump Wants MAGA to Watch
- The Trump–Fox News Feud Has Deep Roots
- Midterms Stakes: 15 Days Until November 3
- Fox News Has Not Responded
- What’s Next
- Additional Details
What Trump Wrote on Truth Social
Trump’s post went up Monday morning and followed a familiar pattern: a grievance about media coverage, followed by a call to action for his base. Next Gen News reported that the president accused Fox News of giving Democratic politicians more favorable coverage than Republicans, then encouraged supporters to watch coverage of his planned Kansas campaign rally on Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative streaming outlet known for broadcasting his speeches and political events. The episode is another in a long line of moments when Trump attacks Fox News rather than aiming his fire at liberal outlets.
The full text of the post, as reported by multiple outlets, read: “Fox spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at any time in the History of FoxNews. It’s ridiculous! FoxNews is trying too hard to be Politically Correct! Watch my big Kansas Rally today on RSBN. Great early coverage!” Cumhuriyet Daily confirmed the same wording, noting that the president “called the network’s editorial approach ‘ridiculous,’ asserting that it is ‘trying too hard to be politically correct.'”
What exactly triggered Monday’s outburst was not immediately clear. Particle News reported that the post arrived minutes after a Fox & Friends segment, but journalists have not confirmed a direct cause — and Trump’s post did not point to any particular program or segment. His claim that the network has shifted toward defending Democrats and featuring their views more heavily is his own characterization — the latest in a series of grievances in which Trump attacks Fox News.
Why Trump Turned on Fox News
Monday’s rant did not come out of nowhere. It continues a series of public complaints against Fox News this month that suggest the president’s patience with the network is wearing thin — even as his relationship with the network was already one of the most closely watched dynamics in conservative media. It is the latest in a series of Truth Social posts in which Trump attacks Fox News over coverage he dislikes.
On October 4, Trump said the network had failed to adequately cover his rallies in Ohio, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma, and warned that supporters would stop watching if the network did not focus more on those events, The Crosswire Daily reported. Two days later, he objected to Fox interviews with Democratic and independent Senate candidates. He specifically criticized coverage of Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and independent Nebraska candidate Dan Osborn, who is challenging Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts. Trump described the interviews as soft and said the network spent more time on those candidates than on Republicans.
The complaints go back further. In September, Trump asked why Fox regularly featured Democratic leaders such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, along with liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov, claiming those voices received more airtime than pro-Republican guests. Earlier this month, Trump complained that Fox was failing to provide sufficient coverage of his campaign rallies, which he believes are important for energizing Republican voters. The September complaints were an early sign of the rupture in which Trump attacks Fox News almost daily.
The pattern is a familiar one: each time Trump attacks Fox News, the president treats the network’s editorial choices as a loyalty test. Fox News remains a leading conservative media organization, but its willingness to interview Democratic candidates and occasionally scrutinize the president has repeatedly drawn his anger — and the conflict has intensified as the midterms approach.
Right Side Broadcasting Network: The Outlet Trump Wants MAGA to Watch
Right Side Broadcasting Network, the outlet Trump urged his supporters to switch to on Monday, is no stranger to controversy — and no stranger to the president’s orbit. Founded in 2015, RSBN built its following on the right by airing Trump events in full, from rallies to speeches, and has become a fixture of his campaign-trail ecosystem. The network has benefited each time Trump attacks Fox News and points his audience elsewhere.
That history comes with baggage. In 2017, the network apologized after host Nick Fuentes — now a prominent white nationalist — said he wanted the people who run CNN “arrested and deported or hanged.” YouTube suspended the network at least twice in 2021 over Trump speeches it aired, including ahead of a July rally in Florida; RSBN said an earlier suspension was over his CPAC speech, which YouTube said violated its election misinformation rules, Opera News reported.
Trump’s Monday post is effectively a marketing push for the smaller outlet: a direct call for his supporters to switch their attention to RSBN, which regularly streams his political events. Raw Story, via 247US, noted that the dispute could fragment conservative viewership and raise questions about platform moderation and the spread of more extreme voices to larger audiences. The post came hours before the Kansas rally Trump promoted, where he told followers to tune in to RSBN for “great early coverage.”
The economics of that ask matter. Cable news networks like Fox News generate the bulk of their revenue from carriage fees and advertising — both of which depend on viewership. A sitting president telling millions of supporters to abandon the network, even for a single event, is the kind of pressure that gets noticed in boardrooms. Whether Trump’s audience actually follows is another question: Fox’s morning and primetime ratings have historically dwarfed RSBN’s streaming audience.
The Trump–Fox News Feud Has Deep Roots
Monday’s attack — the latest public broadside in which Trump attacks Fox News — is only the latest chapter in one of the most turbulent media relationships in modern American politics — a relationship that has swung between mutual dependence and open warfare for more than a decade.
The friction dates back to the 2015 Republican primary, when Trump clashed with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly over her debate questioning and spent weeks attacking both Kelly and the network on social media. After he took office, the relationship became symbiotic: Fox’s primetime hosts championed his presidency, and Trump routinely called into Fox & Friends and treated the network as his de facto communications arm.
But the breaks were real and consequential. On election night 2020, Fox News’s early call of Arizona for Joe Biden infuriated Trump and his allies, sparking a viewer exodus to smaller rivals like Newsmax — a warning shot about how quickly a president can move an audience. In 2023, the network settled the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million over false claims about the 2020 election aired on its programs, a humbling episode that Trump has never let the network forget.
What makes the current moment different is the timing. Past ruptures were about past grievances; this one is about the next two weeks. Trump is treating Fox’s rally coverage and guest bookings as midterm strategy, not just media criticism — and the Kansas rally he promoted on RSBN is part of a broader midterm blitz that has already taken him through Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Kentucky and Georgia this month, as Zeale reported.
Midterms Stakes: 15 Days Until November 3
The Fox News attack lands with exactly 15 days to go before Americans vote in midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress for the final two years of Trump’s term. Democrats need a net gain of four seats in both the House and Senate to overturn Republicans’ narrow majorities, and Reuters reported Monday that Democrats are widely expected to win control of the House while the Senate remains too close to call.
Trump’s approval rating sits at the lowest of his presidency — a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released October 18 put it at just 33 percent — and the president has responded by leaning hard into campaign-trail energy. Read StateLineDaily’s full breakdown of 2026 midterm predictions, where prediction markets give Democrats 90 percent House odds, for the wider forecast picture.
Tonight’s Kansas rally is part of that push. Trump is scheduled to appear in Wichita, Kansas, at 6 PM CDT to campaign for Sen. Roger Marshall’s reelection bid, urging Republicans to “pretend I am on the ballot” — the strategy he announced on Truth Social on September 28. The Wichita stop follows Saturday’s rally in Highland Heights, Kentucky, where Trump rallied for Senate candidate Andy Barr and House candidate Ed Gallrein; see StateLineDaily’s coverage of the Trump Kentucky rally for what that event signaled about the closing message.
That is the context for the latest broadside in which Trump attacks Fox News: a president who believes rally coverage energizes Republican voters, using the hours before a rally to punish a network he thinks is not covering those rallies — and to promote an outlet that will carry the event in full.
Fox News Has Not Responded
As of Monday afternoon, Fox News had not issued a public response to the latest Truth Social post in which Trump attacks Fox News, The Crosswire Daily reported. The network has historically drawn strong viewership among conservative audiences and provided extensive coverage of Trump during his previous campaigns — which is precisely what makes the president’s public rebukes so unusual.
The silence may be strategic. Responding directly risks turning a one-day Truth Social post into a multi-day story; ignoring it risks looking like the network accepts the president’s framing. Either way, the relationship will be tested again tonight: how Fox covers the Wichita rally — and whether its cameras are there at all — will be watched closely by both the White House and the network’s own executives.
What’s Next
Will Trump escalate the feud further?
If past patterns hold, Monday’s post — the latest in which Trump attacks Fox News — is unlikely to be the last word. Trump has repeatedly returned to Fox News criticism when rally coverage or guest bookings displease him, and with 15 days of campaigning left, there will be many more opportunities.
Will viewers actually switch to RSBN?
That is the open question. Trump’s endorsement can move a meaningful audience — the 2020 Newsmax surge after the Arizona call proved it — but Fox’s ratings advantage over streaming alternatives is enormous. Tonight’s Wichita rally will be the first real test of Monday’s call to action.
How will Fox News cover tonight’s Kansas rally?
The network’s coverage decisions will now be read as a response to the president, whether Fox intends that or not. Heavy coverage would look like deference; light coverage would look like defiance — and either choice could trigger another Truth Social post.
Does this matter for the midterms?
Indirectly, yes. Trump is betting that rally energy and turnout decide close races. A fragmented conservative media ecosystem — with the president actively diverting viewers from the biggest conservative network — is an experiment no one has run this close to an election before.
Additional Details
Description: President Donald Trump attacked Fox News on Truth Social on October 19, 2026, accusing the network of “defending Dumocrats” and trying “too hard to be Politically Correct,” while urging supporters to watch his Wichita, Kansas rally on Right Side Broadcasting Network instead. The post escalates a weeks-long feud over the network’s rally coverage and guest bookings — including October complaints about its coverage of rallies in Ohio, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma, and interviews with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and independent Nebraska candidate Dan Osborn — just 15 days before the November 3 midterm elections. Fox News has not publicly responded. It is the latest in a string of posts in which Trump attacks Fox News ahead of the midterms.