Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo in September for trying to get Trump’s election integrity speech covered.
Now they're giving Democrats uncontested airtime while ignoring Trump's sold-out rallies across four states.
This morning Trump named the person responsible – and told MAGA to stop watching.
Trump Demands Fox News Fire Jessica Tarlov While the Network Ignores His Rallies
Donald Trump packed arenas in Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma on Thursday and Friday – then filled the house again in Ohio on Saturday.
Fox News covered none of them.
Other networks did.
Trump noticed and went straight to Truth Social.
"Sad to see that Fox & Friends (Sunday) is not covering our packed house and incredibly enthusiastic Rally that took place in Ohio last night, or the ones in Alabama, Texas, or Oklahoma over the past two days," Trump wrote.
"These Rallies are the hottest things out there, tremendous love in those sold out arenas, and nothing shows up on Fox!"
Last week Trump blasted Fox for giving Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries uncontested airtime. This week he woke up to four sold-out rallies going uncovered and The Five liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov still on the air.
Trump has demanded Fox executives fire Tarlov for months.
Fox signed her to a new three-year contract instead.
"We don't like stupid Jessica Tarlov, and all of the others, that are forced down MAGA'S throats," Trump wrote Sunday.
The Five – the show Tarlov co-hosts – averaged 4 million daily viewers in the first quarter of 2026.
Fox is using that audience to give a megaphone to the one Democrat whose job is to argue against everything they believe.
Suzanne Scott Fired Maria Bartiromo and Is Still Running Fox News
In September, Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo – one of the network's most loyal Trump allies and the host of its top-rated Sunday morning program.
The reason: she leaked an internal company memo to the White House.
That memo instructed Fox talent not to cover Trump's July primetime address.
Fox executives privately called his election claims "delusional."
Bartiromo did exactly what a MAGA-aligned journalist should do – she canceled senior trade adviser Peter Navarro's scheduled appearance and handed him the Fox executive's memo.
Navarro published it. The West Wing called Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, and Bartiromo was gone by that afternoon, her shows renamed before the day was out.
JD Vance walked to the White House podium and said publicly, "I love Maria." Fox said nothing.
Trump went straight for the answer.
"Who makes these decisions at FoxNews?" he wrote. "Probably the same loser that fired the great Maria Bartiromo because she complained about not being allowed to cover 'TRUMP.'"
Trump is telling his entire base that one executive – still in place, still controlling programming – is responsible for both firing Bartiromo and blacking out four consecutive rallies.
Navarro has already named her publicly: Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.
In a Washington Times op-ed last month, he demanded every Cabinet secretary, agency head, and White House official stop appearing on Fox entirely.
"Why are we feeding them talent anymore?" Navarro wrote. "Fox News is much more dangerous to MAGA, much more dangerous to the Republican Party, because they wear our colors when they're helping the other side undermine the president."
He called Fox "CNN with better lighting, a fake slogan and a flag graphic."
The Fox News Boycott Is Already Underway and Trump Knows It Works
In November 2020, Fox News called Arizona for Biden before any other network – and MAGA turned off the channel in rage.
Newsmax and OAN exploded overnight.
Fox's ratings cratered.
The network spent the next four years slowly, painfully winning back the audience it threw away in one night.
Trump warned that the collapse is coming again if Fox doesn't change course.
"Fox tried this act once before, and almost went out of business," he wrote. "That can happen again!"
He is right – and every executive in that building knows it.
MAGA doesn't need Fox. Fox needs MAGA. The audience goes wherever Trump points, and they proved it in 2020.
Navarro is running a coordinated campaign inside the administration to cut Fox off entirely – no guests, no access, no legitimacy.
Fox News spent 12 years and millions of dollars building Maria Bartiromo into one of cable news' most-watched anchors.
They fired her in a single day for being too loyal to Trump.
That is who decides what Fox's audience is allowed to see.
Suzanne Scott hasn't moved, Trump's rallies still aren't on Fox, and he posted about it this morning and will post about it again.
Sources:
- Jordan Conradson, "JUST IN: Trump Goes Off on Fox News for Not Covering Massive Rallies on Fox and Friends," The Gateway Pundit, October 4, 2026.
- "Fox News Gives Terse Response to Report Tying Maria Bartiromo to White House Leak," The Wrap, September 4, 2026.
- David Folkenflik, "Fox News Abruptly Parts Ways with Scandal-Tarred Star Maria Bartiromo," NPR, September 4, 2026.
- "President Donald Trump to Fox News Execs: 'Take Jessica Tarlov Off the Air,'" Barrett Media, April 2026.
- "Trump Official Suggests Administration Boycott Fox News for 'Helping the Other Side Undermine the President,'" Mediaite, September 2026.