During a long appearance on Fox and friends On Friday morning, former President Donald Trump declared himself “the most stable human being” and reiterated his complaint that the network is not solely boosting his reelection campaign and allowing ads to air in support of Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential candidacy. the network. He later outlined how he would take his complaint directly to the network's founder Rupert Murdoch to demand that all negative advertising cease for 21 days.
Trump sat flanked by four co-hosts on Fox News' morning show “Curvy Couch” for much of the program Friday, where he discussed the ongoing 2024 campaign, his rival Harris and Thursday night's charity dinner with Al Smith in New York, an event where he gave a speech with some jokes written by Fox News staff, as he indicated. Unfortunately, he wasn't a fan of their writing and he let everyone in the audience know that on Friday when he was asked about the gags he read from the stage at the event.
“Well, I had a lot of people who helped me,” Trump responded. “Many people. A couple of people from Fox. I shouldn't say that. But they wrote some jokes and, for the most part, I didn't like any of them.”
Later on the morning show, he made a return to his infamous self-description as a “very stable genius” during his 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton when he blurted out, “I'm the most stable human being” in the middle of responding to a question from the host about Harris' attacks being “unstable” and “distraught.”
“Every week they try something else. So far it hasn't worked. I guess that's the offense they have for this week. It doesn't seem to work. I am the most stable human being. Remember they said 'a stable genius?'” Trump asked Fox $ Friends guests.
“I am the most stable human being,” he said. “I've been doing this for a long time. We had four years of greatness. We had the greatest economy in history. We had the biggest border.
Trump's most surprising moment Fox and friends He admitted that he will ask the founder of News Corp, owner of Fox News, to guarantee that no negative ads against his campaign will be published for the next three weeks, i.e. until Election Day. Before he admitted to censoring free speech on an independent cable news network to support his campaign, the Queens native was asked about another event he would be attending on his way home to New York.
“I'm going to see Rupert Murdoch. It's a big event,” Trump told the hosts. “I don't know [if] he's thrilled that he says it. And I'll tell him something very simple because I can't talk to anyone else about it: don't put negative ads for 21 days, don't put them and don't put on their horrible people who come and lie. I'll say, 'Rupert, please do it this way and then we'll have a win, because everyone wants it.'”
Earlier in the show, he said he noticed the negative ads aimed at him and his campaign.
“In the old days, you never saw negative ads. In other words, when I leave here, I'm going to be hit with five or six ads,” Trump said Friday. “When I leave, I'm going to have 12 people from Kamala on, and basically unopposed. For 19 days, I don't think we should do it anymore I think you shouldn't play negative ads.
Election day is November 5, which is 18 days from today.
Fox News also aired a segment featuring Trump visiting a barbershop in the Bronx while in New York on Thursday. The Republican candidate held a brief question-and-answer meeting with staff at Knockout Barbershop in the Castle Hill section of the New York City borough.
Prior to his arrival at the store, a pro-Palestinian protester attracted attention and was seen handcuffed by police after waving a Palestinian flag and attempting and failing to set fire to another flag. The president hadn't arrived yet so the protester probably hadn't committed any crime.
The segment was one of Fox News correspondent Lawrence Jones' barbershop segments, in which he visits locations across the country to discuss major issues impacting the Black community and what is driving votes this election season.