{"id":157496,"date":"2025-07-19T00:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-gets-nasty-in-fox-news-tirade-you-won-man-what-gives-opinion-the-arizona-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:46:56","slug":"trump-gets-nasty-in-fox-news-tirade-you-won-man-what-gives-opinion-the-arizona-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-gets-nasty-in-fox-news-tirade-you-won-man-what-gives-opinion-the-arizona-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets 'nasty' in Fox News tirade. You won, man. What gives? | Opinion – The Arizona Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often surf the Sunday morning talk shows, in part because it\u2019s a job-related chore, though sometimes it feels like penance.
I don\u2019t know what my sins were, but they must have been grave. Because on Sunday, June 29, I found myself watching Donald Trump on \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d hosted by Maria Bartiromo \u2014 again<\/a>.
Her show is what you might call a safe space for Trump. Bartiromo was once a serious financial journalist (and the subject of a song by the late Joey Ramone) before turning into a MAGA enthusiast and election denier. It was a weird turn, but honestly, at this point, just add it to the list.
I\u2019ve seen enough of these \u201cinterviews,\u201d<\/a> in which Bartiromo brings up some of the issues of the moment and just lets Trump go, to know how they work. There is occasional mild pushback, as there was Sunday on a couple of topics, but in general it\u2019s an interview subject\u2019s dream \u2014 for Trump, especially: a set-up that looks like a real interview but is in fact just a platform for you to espouse boasts, lies and attacks and not be held accountable for them.
So it was Sunday, when Bartiromo ran down a list of items and Trump, in between complimenting his host (\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing your show a long time, nobody like you\u201d), talked like he was still running for president<\/a> \u2014 in 2024. Who knows, in his mind, maybe he is.
For him, the campaign never ends.
The news, as such, was another threat against journalists. Trump\u2019s insistence that U.S. bunker-busting bombs \u201cobliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities in a June 21 attack was called into question almost immediately<\/a>. CNN and the New York Times reported on June 25 that preliminary intelligence reports showed the damage ranged from moderate to severe, and that Iran\u2019s nuclear program had not been set back years, but months.
Trump sent his attack dog, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth<\/a>, out to attack reporters in a bizarre media briefing on June 27. But on Bartiromo\u2019s show, Trump went further. He claimed that Democrats leaked the report, and \u201cthey should be prosecuted.\u201d He wouldn\u2019t name names but said it would be easy to identify them.
\u201cWe can find out,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they want to, we can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, \u2018National security, who gave it?\u2019 You have to do that, and I suspect we\u2019ll be doing things like that.\u201d
And I suspect any reporter worthy of the name will tell him no. It\u2019s tempting to say, \u201cSee you in court,\u201d but that\u2019s not such a safe bet these days<\/a>.
What a chilling proposition \u2014 chilling but not surprising. It\u2019s all part of a continuing effort to silence any criticism<\/a>, any suggestion that anything Trump does isn\u2019t perfect. In MAGAland, this isn\u2019t allowed. It\u2019s all praise<\/a>, all the time.
At least when it comes to Trump. When it comes to his favorite punching bag, Joe Biden, Trump just can\u2019t stop talking. Perhaps someone should remind him that Biden wasn\u2019t the Democratic candidate<\/a> in 2024 \u2014 it was in all the papers. But there Trump was Sunday, railing against Biden and \u201cthe lunatics\u201d who worked in the Oval Office during Biden\u2019s term.
\u201cI don\u2019t think Biden knew what was happening,\u201d Trump said, repeating an oft-used attack. He called Biden\u2019s use of an autopen (a machine that copies a signature) one of the \u201cbiggest scandals in the history of the United States,\u201d despite presidents as far back as Thomas Jefferson using a version of it \u2014 Democrats and Republicans<\/a>.
Among the other attacks:
\u201cBiden is a disaster.\u201d
\u201cBiden was so stupid. He said everybody had to have electric cars by 2030.\u201d (He didn\u2019t. He signed a mostly ceremonial executive order<\/a> setting a goal for 50% of new cars and trucks sold by 2030 to be zero-emission.)
\u201cIf I didn\u2019t get elected, I\u2019m telling you, we wouldn\u2019t have a country left,\u201d Trump told Bartiromo, a repeated boast. \u201cYou know that better than anybody. Nobody covers it better than you.\u201d
What a proud moment for Bartiromo.
She did offer mild pushback about deals with China. \u201cHow do you negotiate with obviously a bad actor and trust them on economics?\u201d she said.
\u201cYou don\u2019t think we do that to them?\u201d he said of various nefarious acts. \u201cWe do. We do a lot of things.\u201d
\u201cThat\u2019s the way the world works?\u201d Bartiromo said.
\u201cThat\u2019s the way the world works,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s a nasty world.\u201d
Is it, though? Or is that what you say when you\u2019re trying to make yourself look like a tough guy at the expense of everyone else, and you have a \u201cjournalist\u201d willing to go along with you? The answer seemed pretty clear on Sunday.
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