Donald Trump may be the only Republican candidate running for president that seems to prefer the more centrist news media over Fox News.
Tuesday on CBS’ “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert, Trump, with a touch of saltiness, sang the praises of Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” who Trump used to regularly mock as “sleepy eyes.”
While playing a game where Trump had to guess whether it was himself who had said a past quote read aloud by Colbert, one was brought up about Todd.
“So many people told me that I should host ‘Meet the Press’ and replace the moron who is on now. Just too busy, especially the next 10 years,” Colbert said, citing something Trump had once wrote on social media.
“The ‘moron’ has become a very nice guy,” Trump said. “I’m starting to like him a lot. That [quote] is me. But I do like the person on ‘Meet the Press.'”
Trump’s compliments for Todd come a day after he took shots at Fox News, a place that is widely seen as a more friendly environment for Republican politicians.
On Monday, Trump took several shots at Fox on Twitter, including the network’s most highly rated anchor.
“[Bill] O’Reilly was very negative to me in refusing to post the great polls that came out today including NBC,” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to a poll of Republican voters released Monday by NBC News that showed him leading the GOP field for the party’s nomination. “Fox News not good for me!”
