President Donald Trump tore into Fox News on Sunday after the network aired what can only be described as a *free political advertisement* for the Democratic Party — courtesy of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and an astonishing lack of pushback from alleged “conservative” correspondent Peter Doocy.
Kelly used his Fox platform to parrot the most hysterical DNC talking points possible: blaming Republicans for the shutdown, accusing the GOP of wanting Americans to “die,” and pretending illegal immigrants aren’t draining taxpayer-funded programs. And Fox News, Trump argued, just sat there and let it all flow.
The exchange began when Doocy teed up Kelly to attack Republicans — and the Democrat happily obliged.
“We could sort this out next week… or as early as Monday,” Kelly claimed, insisting that if Speaker Mike Johnson simply dragged the House back from the negotiating table and surrendered to Democrat demands, the shutdown could end. Kelly then escalated into full fear-mongering mode.
“Millions of people will lose their healthcare… When people lose their healthcare, they die,” he said, in classic Democrat panic-politics fashion.
When Doocy finally asked a question — whether Democrats were trying to extend benefits to illegal immigrants — Kelly dismissed the concern as a “red herring,” pretending federal law protects Americans from exactly the abuses Democrats have been demanding for years.
That’s when Trump, watching the segment in real time, erupted.
“Why is Fox News and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, healthcare?” Trump blasted. “The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN.”
Trump then shifted his fire to Fox News itself — a network he says is happy to profit off MAGA viewership while pushing anti-MAGA narratives.
“They suck up the Ratings because of us,” Trump wrote, “and then spin them in the Democrats’ direction.”
He accused the network of suppressing accurate polls that show him with sky-high popularity — including a 65% approval rating among Republicans — while eagerly broadcasting “fake bad polls,” including those Fox commissions itself. “One of the worst pollsters out there is the Fox News Poll,” Trump added.
In a scathing final jab, Trump slammed Fox for trying to appease Democrats:
“Republicans are so tired of this fight with Fox always trying to be so ‘politically correct!’”
Trump’s frustration is not without merit. Despite branding itself as a right-leaning network, Fox has repeatedly given Democrats a platform to spread unchallenged narratives during critical political moments — and conservatives have noticed. The Mark Kelly segment was only the latest example.
Ironically for Kelly, the shutdown ultimately ended without Democrats securing the healthcare benefits for illegal aliens or expanded Obamacare subsidies they hoped to sneak into the negotiations — making his breathless warnings about millions dying even more ridiculous in hindsight.
But the episode revealed something else: conservatives are running out of patience with a network that profits off MAGA while undermining it.
And Trump made it clear: Fox can “get on board, or get off board” — but he isn’t letting this slide anymore.
