In addition to “Fox News” is now also “The Sun” to Donald trump’s preferred media. The transmitter and the newspaper belonging to Rupert Murdoch. The two men have a special relationship.
A friendly hug between Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch in 2017 in New York (archive)
“When one enters the courtyard of an Emperor, then it should be, to bring a gift,” writes the British tabloid “The Sun”. Therefore, the Reporter had a Jersey of an English football when they entered the US Embassy in Brussels. And so the “Emperor put it” for the photographers in the Sun with a wide Grin and held the Jersey high, so that the back read: “TRUMP”, including the back number “1”. “Wow, I love gifts,” the newspaper quoted the recipient of the US President.
So it was a friendly atmosphere, in the Donald his single exclusive Interview, Trump gave during his trip to Europe. Friendship, at least the both of them have asserted publicly, the US President is also the owner of the Sun, Rupert Murdoch. The 86-year-old media entrepreneur is calling regularly in the White house, according to the New York Times, often even without Trumps chief of staff knowing about it.
Murdoch’s transmitter is Trumps transmitter
But above all, Trump is known for to look every day for hours, Murdoch’s TV channel “Fox News”. Again and again topics about the Fox reports on scuba diving, a little later in the Agenda of the President. The Fox presenter Sean Hannity is the F. A. for example, as “Trumps phone pastor” and the Financial Times writes that the show “Fox & Friends” take the same role as intelligence Briefings in the case of its predecessors. Sometimes Trump even by phone directly in the shipment. The transmitter is for Trump, there is a direct communication channel to its base, on the other hand, the influence of the “Fox News” on the President immensely. Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch are the two men the benefit without any doubt of their friendship.
Donald Trump with Anna and Rupert Murdoch (archive)
Under New York’s Millionaires
Both of them were born in wealthy entrepreneurial families, both of them took the Profession of the father, and did their business with the media or real estate. And they both attended the services of the lawyer Roy Cohn, after the Australian Rupert Murdoch was in 1976 in trump’s hometown of New York. They ran in similar circles, and both were closely associated with the tabloid New York Post: Murdoch as the owner, Trump headlines Material. The newspaper supplied the New Yorker with a reliable information about trump’s love life. When Murdoch sold the leaf and the Post, under its new owners the Trump sharper turning back begged this in 1988: “Rupert, come on!” Five years later, Murdoch Trumps followed, Please.
He was also with his advice, as the young real estate investor Jared Kushner in 2006, getting themselves in the media industry and the New York Observer wanted to buy. Kushner, who had met at the same time, his present wife, Ivanka Trump, also met privately with Murdoch and his then wife Wendi Deng. The two daughters of Murdoch and Deng scattered on the wedding of Kushner and Trump flowers.
Ivanka Trump, together with Wendi Deng Murdoch at a tennis match (archive)
This friendship pays off
In the tell-all book “Fire and Fury” by the journalist Michael Wolff, Murdoch, Trump called a “fucking idiot” – at any point of the election campaign, the media Mogul is said to have recognised, however, the winning chance of the candidate Trump. After Mediation by Jared Kushner and Fox News began increasingly to support the choice of fighters Trump. In March of 2016, tweeted Murdoch: “If Trump is unavoidable, would not be crazy for the party to unite behind him.”
Rupert Murdoch has traditionally had a big influence on several British Prime Minister, after the recent election 2017 Theresa May did not want to deny that Murdoch had asked her to get her self fired Minister Michael Gove back to the Cabinet. In the White house, Murdoch were able to have such close Links, previously only to Ronald Reagan: On Murdoch’s instigation, the Reagan administration, inter alia, the Fairness doctrine, which had been ensured until then, political balance in TV coverage. So paved Reagan saw produced the track for the conservative opinion journalism, the “Fox News” today. And Rupert Murdoch intensified in time of its ties to Trump in order to make the symbiosis is perfect.
How much Trumps sympathy can pay off, noted Murdoch in December, when he sold much of his entertainment group “21st Century Fox” at Disney: After Trump had assured that “Fox News” is not affected, the Deal is undisturbed of a Review of the Ministry of justice. The merger of AT&T and Time Warner’s CNN, which also is the Trump-critical transmitter, just slows down from the Ministry of justice a second Time.
Donald Trump and Theresa May on the country residence of the British Prime Minister
Trump, Murdoch and the Brexit
And so, it is a remarkable coincidence that a few days after the British Prime Minister, Theresa May suggests a softer Brexit as a last and then, two of her key Ministers to lose, Trump of all people is using the Sun to increase the pressure further. The Sun supports Mays conservative party, but had withdrawn before the vote in June 2016 Position for a hard-Brexit.
In the current Sun-Interview, Trump said: “The Deal that you are working towards, is a very different Deal, for the people have voted.” Trump also said that he had already expected the day before the vote, Brexit would come. He spent the historic day in his Golf Resort in Scotland, Turnberry. Two days after the vote, Trump was photographed there in a Golf-Caddy – hintenauf Rupert Murdoch was sitting.