Donald Trump Taunts Roger Ailes: ‘Ask Him Who Won’

It doesn’t look like the Donald Trump/Fox News heavyweight fight for Republican domination is over yet.

Yesterday, I wrote about Fox’s surprisingly vicious attack on Trump after he took credit for Megyn Kelly’s 10-day vacation. Kelly’s unusually long vacation announcement was made less than a week after her tough confrontation with Trump during Fox’s Republican primary debate – and, of course, following a series of sexist attacks made by Trump on her.

That was Friday.

Yesterday, at the Iowa state fair, Trump boasted about besting Ailes. When asked by a reporter if he had made any mistakes “so far,” Trump said, “I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. I mean, every time somebody says I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up. So I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.”

Trump cited his comments about Mexico and John McCain as supposed mistakes that didn’t hurt him. Then he got to his war with Fox News.

TRUMP: And this last thing with Fox. I mean, I love Roger Ailes but all you have to do is ask Roger Ailes who won. So I don’t think I’ve made any mistakes. I am sure I will at some point, but so far you would have to say, has it worked out badly, right?

Watch Trump taunt Ailes below, during his August 15^th appearance at the fair.

And keep that popcorn going!

(H/T Mediaite)

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commented 2015-08-16 18:37:02 -0400 · Flag

Donald Trump is a living, breathing WWE pro wrasslin character. Seriously. He is 99 percent bluster, and beneath that bluster there isn’t a whole lot of serious thinking going on, other than how to “get over” with the voters. In wrestling terms, Trump does nothing more than cut promos on people.

commented 2015-08-16 17:38:25 -0400 · Flag

Aria, I have never seen Kelly “punished” on Fox. I don’t think she was in this instance either, FWIW. She’s their rising star and golden girl. As to whether Ailes picked her so he could blame her if the questions got too hard… well, Chris Wallace was tough, too. Trump complained about him as well but didn’t get into sexist attacks.

commented 2015-08-16 16:44:54 -0400 · Flag

It’s not hard to best Kelly- And I’m not talking about shouting matches/abrupt ends when she gets a question she doesn’t like. As I said elsewhere, Kelly seems to get suspended for lent- She goes off-script, she’s punished. It’s in the script, but good came out of it, she’s punished. Ailes does NOT have her back, and the other hosts seem to end it at on-air civility.

I’m even a subscriber to the theory that the reason Kelly was picked to moderate was because they’d have the easiest time throwing her under if their plans on Trump backfired. If Bill O’Reilly, or Dana Perino was the moderator, you bet your ass Ailes would have gone to bat for his host. Then again, it’s not implausible that he put that weak sauce up because it’s her.

commented 2015-08-16 12:13:30 -0400 · Flag

Remember! Megyn is the Fox News star who admitted on screen that Jon Stewart made her cry!!!
She’s probably off on rehab somewhere wrapped up in a straight jacket right now!!

commented 2015-08-16 11:21:49 -0400 · Flag

Hilarious watching faux Fox News ‘media watchdog’ Howard Kurtz spin like crazy the GOPTV – Trump feud. Clearly unbiased Howie is comically walking a tightrope. He can’t cheese off The Donald angry fan base who are a large chunk of his audience but he knows he can’t stand up to Roger Ailes and, like any loyal lap dog, must go to bat for the home team (cutting him a fat paycheck).

So Howie informs us the official Fox News story is – despite every other independent source reporting the curious timing of Megyn’s vacation as being unplanned – Kelly’s “family vacation” has been on her calendar for the longest time. Wink. Wink.

Oh, and there’s no way manly-man Roger Ailes played the doormat to The Donald and completely caved. No, the Howie version is it was a “truce” amongst egotistical equals. Roger don’t forget to include an extra dog biscuit in loyal lap dog Howie’s next paycheck.

Who needs Jon Stewart to point out the obvious humor in all this when “Media Buzz” is a satire that writes itself? ;^)

commented 2015-08-16 10:44:08 -0400 · Flag

Fox needs Trump. Trump doesn’t need Fox. This is no contest.

commented 2015-08-16 09:29:32 -0400 · Flag

The political marriage of Tampax T-Rump and Jabba the Ailes is starting to fray. Two bloated egos is one too many.

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Keep that popcorn going!