Murdoch’s New York Post calls Trump “Republican Party’s biggest loser”
The billionaire owner of Fox News used his newspapers to roast former President Donald Trump one day after the 2022 midterm elections.
The cover of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post is printing a Thursday cover with an egg-shaped Trump on a brick wall with the headline, “Trumpty Dumpty.” The sub-headline said “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall — can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?”
The online headline for the story, by John Podhoretz, was “Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms” and suggested the nickname “Toxic Trump.”
“What Tuesday night’s results suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history,” Podhoretz wrote. “The British political figure Oliver Cromwell once said about other British politicians who had overstayed their welcome and were ruining the country, ‘In the name of God, go!’ Yo, Toxic Trump: Scram.”
Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal also wrote an editorial on Trump’s role in the midterms.
“Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser,” the headline read. “He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.”
Trump is “screaming at everyone” (except himself) in wake of mid-term failure to perform
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly fuming over the Republican Party’s failure to produce a red wave, but he’s not ruling out an announcement about a 2024 presidential campaign.
The twice-impeached former president’s hand-picked GOP candidates largely flopped in Tuesday’s midterm elections, and Democrats still have an outside shot at maintaining congressional majorities in both chambers, which CNN’s Jim Acosta said leaves Trump and his inner circle pointing fingers at one another.
“’Trump is livid’ and ‘screaming at everyone,’ after last night’s disappointing midterm results for GOP, according to a Trump adviser,” Acosta reported. “The adviser went on to slam the former president’s handpicked contenders: ‘they were all bad candidates.’ ‘Candidates matter,’ the adviser said.”
Trump had reportedly considered announcing a presidential run on Monday, ahead of the midterms, but sources say the election results muddle the timeline for entering the 2024 race.
Republican campaign heavyweights are running away from Trumnp
Republican campaign operatives thinking about their career choices following the midterms are reconsidering signing up for a third White House campaign by Donald Trump.
That detail was revealed in a New York Times report headlined, “Trump Under Fire From Within GOP After Midterms.”
The newspaper reported, “conservative allies criticized Mr. Trump on social media and cable news, questioning whether he should continue as the party’s leader and pointing to his toxic political brand as the common thread woven through three consecutive lackluster election cycles.”
Michael Bender and Maggie Haberman reported, “conservative allies criticized Mr. Trump on social media and cable news, questioning whether he should continue as the party’s leader and pointing to his toxic political brand as the common thread woven through three consecutive lackluster election cycles.”
The unease with Trump could harm his expected 2024 comeback attempt.
“Among Republican operatives who have been open to working with another Trump presidential campaign, a handful said they were reconsidering,” The Times reported. “That could present a challenge for Mr. Trump, who has a handful of trusted advisers but almost no one yet staffing key aspects of a campaign-in-waiting.”