According to a new study from Media Matters for America, a nonprofit media watchdog, President Donald Trump tweeted in response to Fox News or Fox Business programs he was watching at least 657 times in 2019 — nearly 10% of his total tweets that year.
Media Matters’ review of Trump’s tweets shows how the president’s Fox fixation drove federal policy and national politics all year long.
The study found that:
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Trump live-tweeted all networks 681 times in 2019. Of those, 559 tweets responded to Fox News, 98 to Fox Business, and 24 were scattered across other broadcast and cable networks.
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Trump’s 657 live tweets of Fox programming represent 9.5% of his total tweets that year and an average of nearly two live tweets per day.
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Trump’s highest one-day total was 10 on December 18, the day the House of Representatives voted to impeach him. He sent 97 Fox live tweets in December, the most of any month in 2019.
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Trump live-tweeted 36 different Fox shows.
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As the year went on, Trump increased both the range of Fox shows he live-tweeted and the frequency of his live tweets.
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Trump sent 206 live tweets about Fox & Friends, his highest total of any show by a factor of more than three.
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Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade was the person he quoted most frequently.
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Trump sent 136 live tweets combined about Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight and Fox News’ prime-time block of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Ingraham Angle.
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Of his Fox live tweets, 45% were about either the Russia investigation or Ukraine scandal.
The full study is available here: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/study-trump-sent-657-live-tweets-fox-programming-2019
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