Despite joining the President as a guest in the Oval Office earlier this month, the 93 year-old Murdoch has used his papers to condemn both the style and substance of Trump’s second administration.
The Post, once Trump’s “favourite newspaper”, has now extended its hostility to X owner Musk and the government efficiency drive headed by the world’s richest man.
It concluded: “So, Mr. President, let’s leave the sophomoric triumphalism for cognitively impaired lib gerontocrats, social-media nobodies and the whole crowd of MAGA kibitzers. (And tell Elon to knock it off, too.)”
Murdoch joined the world’s richest man and other Republican-supporting billionaires at a private dinner, days before the November election.
But there is an inherent tension in the Murdoch-Musk concord. “Elon is 15 times richer than Rupert (Musk is worth $380bn) and he represents the all-powerful new tech oligarchs. Rupert’s business is legacy print and TV, old media,” a News Corp insider said.
In a sign of how little regard Trump has for the Post’s call to cool the glee over drop losses, the President urged Musk to be even more aggressive in his mission to shrink the US government. Musk replied on his X platform that he would.
Murdoch’s New York Post sent sent a direct message to the President“Turning the truth completely upside down ought to be beneath him,” the Post had said of the President’s accusation that Zelensky provoked the conflict with Russia. The paper said it would be “despicable” to “squeeze war-crippled Ukraine for all we can”.
Murdoch, whose Fox News makes huge profits by appealing to Trump’s electoral base, scrambled to get back on board with the ex-President when his re-election campaign took off.
'It's personal': Rupert Murdoch's American newspapers turn against Trump again
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