Trump began his brief acceptance speech by alluding to his complaints about the network and noting that he doesn’t like “a couple” people on its staff. But despite Trump’s gripes about Fox’s coverage of his political rivals and of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, the event was a reminder of the long-standing, occasionally troubled and often mutually beneficial relationship between Trump and Fox.
Trump has spent the weeks since Election Day mostly entrenched at his Mar-a-Lago Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, and his decision to fly to Long Island to accept the award from Fox Nation, the TV network’s streaming service, highlights the influential role Fox is poised to play as Trump returns to the White House.
Days before the event, which also honored military veterans, first responders and other community leaders, Trump posted on Truth Social that he looked “greatly forward” to receiving the award, calling the accolade “so nice!” In that post, he took a different tone than he had less than two months ago, when he criticized Fox News’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and wrote the network has “grown so weak and soft on the Democrats.”
“FoxNews has totally lost its way!” he wrote at the time.
Throughout Trump’s first term, the president’s public statements and policy decisions often were influenced by Fox and its popular hosts. Trump watched the network religiously, often calling in by phone himself and tweeting responses to its reports in real time or after watching its shows on DVR.
Ahead of his return to the White House, Trump has tapped many of the network’s former hosts, contributors and frequent guests to serve in key roles in his administration, including Pete Hegseth, his embattled pick for defense secretary.
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