Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts responded to criticism from President Trump on Tuesday.
Virginia Del. Ibraheem Samirah interrupted the president’s speech honoring the 400th anniversary of Virginia’s first representative legislative assembly. He shouted, “You can’t send us back, Virginia is our home,” while Trump spoke.
The president complained about how Roberts discussed the president’s speech and the heckler.
“You gave the protester 100% of the time. I don’t care about coverage. The last thing I need is coverage. But listen, hey, John, 100%, not one word of the speech, and we were there about the speech. The protester didn’t look so good to me. I’m gonna be very nice. You give them 100%,” the president said.
Roberts responded to the president’s remarks about him on Shep Smith Reporting.
He said, “In my 1:00 report, we did not show anything from the president’s speech because we were focused in that report on the ongoing feud between the president and Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland and the fallout from that, but it should be pointed out that in our 11:00 hour the Fox News Channel carried that speech in its entirety.”
Trump was also critical of Fox News earlier this month.
Just last week the president was critical of the network for their poll that had him losing to both 2020 front-runner Joe Biden and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams,” the president tweeted on July 7. “Like CNN, NBC is also way down in the ratings. But @FoxNews, who failed in getting the very BORING Dem debates, is now loading up with Democrats & even using Fake unsourced @nytimes as a ‘source’ of information.”
