Trump Targets Fox News in Profanity-Laced Tirade While Texting Network

Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News as polls began closing in the 2026 midterm elections, branding the network’s exit-poll questions “BULLS***.”

The president had appeared on Fox earlier on Election Day, but later turned to Truth Social to criticize the network’s election coverage.

His anger centered largely on Fox’s “Voter Poll,” which found that 87 percent of respondents were worried about gas prices and that 62 percent attributed those costs to Trump’s policies.

“The FoxNews Poll, always the worst, is so insulting with the questions they ask,” Trump wrote. He claimed that every question amounted to a “hit job” and dismissed the responses as “BULLS***,” saying he had been making the complaint for years.

The survey also put Trump’s approval rating at 38 percent, roughly matching figures reported in comparable CBS News and CNN polling.

Trump then directed his criticism at Jessica Tarlov, the liberal co-host of Fox News’ “The Five” and a frequent target of his attacks.

While watching the network’s pre-election coverage, Trump said he could not tolerate Tarlov’s voice and insulted her intelligence. He added that he would switch channels until she was off the air before returning to Fox News later.

He even sent a message to fellow “The Five” host Greg Gutfeld during the live broadcast, prompting Gutfeld to read it on air.

In the message, Trump instructed Gutfeld to tell Tarlov that gas prices were lower than during the Biden and Obama administrations. He also accused the previous administration of allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, said he had inherited historically high prices and inflation from “Sleepy Joe,” and insisted that costs were falling rapidly. Trump claimed inflation stood at 1.7 percent and said there would be no “nuclear bomb.”

The president’s criticism then expanded to Fox News’ overall audience figures and performance.

Trump claimed Fox News ratings had fallen by 27 percent because the network was spending too much time covering what he called “Trump Deranged Dumocrats.” He argued that former viewers who had stopped watching the channel understood the network was responsible for the decline.

“It’s them, not me,” Trump wrote, insisting that his own numbers were stronger than ever. He cited a CNN poll that he said showed him with 99 percent support among Republicans and 53 percent among Republican presidents, compared with 18 percent for Ronald Reagan and 8 percent for Abraham Lincoln. Trump added that Fox News was aware of those figures.

He also accused Fox Corporation, the network’s parent company, of donating money to Democratic politicians and left-leaning political groups.

Trump questioned why Fox Corporation was contributing to figures and organizations including Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, Pete Aguilar, the California Democratic Party, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, the CHC Bold PAC and the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund.

He warned that Fox News’ ratings would continue to fall, arguing that the decline was not caused by him but by the network’s opposition to his presidency. Trump said a similar breakdown had happened before, nearly bringing Fox to the brink, and claimed the same pattern was now repeating.

He continued to work the phones before results came in, telling CBS News that Trump ‘is prepared to use “tremendous powers” if Democrats take control.’ 

Trump closed his barrage by pointing to what he described as his greatest source of political power: the presidential veto.

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Meanwhile, Fox News’ Jesse Watters was predicting a blue wave and wondering how bad things could get. 

‘I don’t feel great. I feel like I’m about to play a game that I know I’m gonna lose. I’m just trying not to get hurt. And getting hurt would mean you lose the Senate. And right now the Senate is very much in play! And it’s making me angry! But I knew this was coming. Everybody knew this was coming. It’s just, how bad is it going to be?’ 

Control of Congress hangs in the balance as Americans rush to the polls to cast their final ballots in the 2026 midterm elections.

In the Senate, Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats to gain control. In the House, they need to pick up just three seats.

Americans have headed to the polls in droves to make their voices heard on a slew of issues, including the cost of living and the war in Iran, while chaos erupted in several key battleground states.

By the end of Tuesday, over 100 million people will have voted in House and Senate races across the country, determining whether Democrats can capture control of both chambers.

Predictions have included that Republicans will be swamped by a ‘blue wave,’ even a ‘blue tsunami’ – but other experts have been more sanguine, suggesting the polls could be wrong. It’s happened before.

Across the country, in conversations with voters, the Daily Mail has found the cost of living, gas and diesel prices, and disillusion with the Iran war to be the major issues, cutting across party lines.

Much of the frustration is aimed at President Trump, whose approval rating recently sunk to a record low of 36 percent in an average of polls, with disapproval topping 60 percent.

The President embarked on a frenzied last month of campaigning, holding 30 rallies in vulnerable states during October to get the GOP vote out.

However, some believe the gains may be offset by his presence and rhetoric putting off independents, what one expert called a ‘red undertow.’

Some Republican candidates walked a political tightrope, embracing parts of Trump’s agenda while distancing themselves from him on the Iran war.

Should Democrats take the House and Senate it will lead to Trump spending his final two years in office blocked from getting much of his agenda through, and engulfed by congressional corruption investigations into himself and his family.

Held in the middle of each four-year presidential administration, the midterms see all 435 seats in the House, and about one third of the 100 Senate seats up for grabs. This time it is 35 Senate seats. Three dozen governorships are also being decided on Tuesday.

Currently, Republicans hold a majority of 218-214 in the House. There are two vacancies and one independent who caucuses with Republicans.

That means Democrats need only to flip three red seats to take control and all reputable experts have them as overwhelming favorites to do so. It is mainly a question of how high they can push their majority in order to give Hakeem Jeffries, who would become Speaker, more capacity to rein in the democratic socialist wing of his own party.

Prediction market Kalshi put the Democrats at about 94 percent odds of winning the House and at 77 percent of taking the Senate, on Election Day

With the House almost certainly going Democrat, all eyes are on the Senate, where Republicans ⁠hold a majority of 53-47.

A 50-50 result after November 3 would mean Republicans keeping control, with Vice President JD Vance holding a casting vote. Republicans would retain control of the committees Democrats hope to use to investigate Trump.

For victory, Democrats must make a net gain of four seats, taking them to 51.

Of the 35 seats being fought, Republicans currently hold 22, and Democrats 13.