President Trump opened the final stretch of the midterm campaign with a public break from the biggest network in conservative media. In a Truth Social post on Monday morning, he accused Fox News of spending more time defending Democrats than at any point in its history, called the network "ridiculous" and "trying too hard to be Politically Correct," and told his supporters to watch his Kansas rally on the Right Side Broadcasting Network instead.
"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!"
The post did not name a specific segment, and no outlet has confirmed a single trigger — several noted it landed minutes after a Fox & Friends segment, but Trump's complaint is the culmination of a month of escalating grievances, not a one-off. On October 4, he said Fox 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. Two days later, he objected to Fox interviews with Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and independent Nebraska candidate Dan Osborn, who is challenging Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts, describing the interviews as soft and saying the network spent more time on those candidates than on Republicans. In September, he had already asked why Fox regularly features Democratic leaders such as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, along with liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov. Of the El-Sayed interview, he said, in remarks reported by Mediaite: "They hardly fight him at all. Why are they putting these people on our television networks? Why?"
The outlet he is steering viewers to, RSBN, was founded in 2015 and built its audience on the right by airing Trump events in full — rallies, speeches and crowd coverage that cable networks often show only in part — streaming on platforms including Rumble and YouTube. Fox News, for its part, had issued no public response to Monday's post as of Monday afternoon. The network remains the dominant force in conservative television and carried Trump's rise for a decade; its silence leaves Monday night as the first test, when its cameras either show up in force for the Kansas rally or do not.
The stakes are the calendar. There are 15 days left before the November 3 midterms, and Trump is treating rally coverage as campaign strategy: the rallies are his turnout engine, and he wants them carried whole. A president publicly diverting his own audience from the largest conservative network to a streaming rival, a fortnight before the vote, is pressure no boardroom ignores. His instruction to supporters was not subtle: "Watch my big Kansas Rally today on RSBN. Great early coverage!"
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