The Daily Blast: Trump Rage at Fox Backfires as Aides Leak Humiliating Motive Behind It

Donald Trump rages regularly at Fox News. But Axios now reports (axios.com/2026/10/08/trump-fox-news-tension-el…) that there’s more behind this than meets the eye: White House and GOP operatives have privately pressured Fox for months to change how it’s covering Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The problem? By giving El-Sayed airtime and covering him in a somewhat factual way, it’s made it harder for Trump and the GOP to smear him as a crazy radical jihadist. Translation: Don’t let voters learn the truth about this guy; it’ll make it harder for us to beat him! That is so deeply humiliating. But it also gets at a bigger story about how the manly men of MAGA get so whiny when the electoral going gets tough. We talked to Jennifer Rubin, editor-in-chief of The Contrarian (contrariannews.org). We discuss her new piece on the flimsiness of MAGA machismo (contrariannews.org/p/trump-the-whining-weak-wimp), probe the deeper reasons Trump can’t allow the truth about El-Sayed to be told, and dissect a new Pew poll (pewresearch.org/politics/2026/10/08/trumps-app…) showing Trump’s approval down to an abysmal 30 percent.

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