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I think the real question is always which one Trump is watching, used to be able to tell because he'd tweet on the same "topic of the day" that fox was playing
led to a feedback loop where fox would bring up one of their ridiculous talking points in the morning with the usual "some people are saying", trump would tweet about it, then the messaging on fox would switch to "the president says"
Exactly, and the founder of Newsmax (Christopher Ruddy) has been a close friend of trump for 20 years. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Trump is approving stories before they go out, if not directly telling them what to report on.
More likely that the control flow goes the other direction, and it's the Newsmax guy telling Trump what to think.