"@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future," Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday.
It's on — again.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday he won’t be appearing on Fox News Channel any more because the “fair and balanced” network isn’t fair and balanced with him.
“@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future,” Trump tweeted.
The bombastic billionaire, who for weeks blasted the network for its treatment of him during the first GOP debate in August before agreeing to a truce, has in recent days escalated the feud.
On Tuesday evening, Trump again took aim at Megyn Kelly, the Fox anchor who moderated the first GOP debate and questioned him about his treatment of women.
“Do you ever notice that lightweight @megynkelly constantly goes after me but when I hit back it is totally sexist. She is highly overrated!” he tweeted.
On Monday, he lashed out at another Fox News personality, Bill O’Reilly.
“@oreillyfactor, why don’t you have some knowledgeable talking heads on your show for a change instead of the same old Trump haters. Boring!” he tweeted.
But he apparently still watches the cable channel.
During Wednesday’s “The Kelly File,” National Review editor Rich Lowry suggested Carly Fiorina’s debate performance had a castrating effect on Trump.
“Let’s be honest, in the last debate Carly cut his b---s off with the precision of a surgeon,” Lowry said, prompting a slew of tweets from The Donald.
“@FoxNews owes me an apology for allowing clueless pundit @RichLowry to use such foul language on TV. Unheard of!” he tweeted.
A representative for the channel said it had canceled an appearance by Trump on “The O’Reilly Factor” scheduled for Thursday, which prompted the outspoken magnate’s “subsequent tweet about his ‘boycott’ of Fox News.’ ”
“When coverage doesn’t go his way, he engages in personal attacks on our anchors and hosts, which has grown stale and tiresome,” the network said in the statement.
O’Reilly commented on Trump’s attack during an appearance on Tuesday’s “Today” show, saying, “I’ve known Trump a long time. He wants people to like him. When people criticize him, he takes it personally.”
Despite Trump’s relationship with the network, he remained at the top of a Fox News poll released Wednesday. The real estate mogul led the pack with 26% support among GOP primary voters. He was followed by Ben Carson at 18%.
Fox and Trump have been on shaky ground since the Aug. 6 debate, when Kelly asked the mogul pointed questions about his personal insults against women.
Afterward, Trump said Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever,” during the debate, a meanspirited barb that many assumed was a reference to her menstrual cycle.
Later Wednesday, Trump, who has been blasted for his disparaging remarks about minorities, touted his popularity among black voters.
Speaking at a black business conference in South Carolina, Trump cited a poll from SurveyUSA that showed him getting 25% of the black vote against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
