'#FoxNews is dead': Trump spends morning going after Fox News in retweet spree

• President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Fox News on Thursday morning, retweeting several Twitter users' complaints about the network and registering his own.
• Trump criticized the network's daytime and weekend ratings, saying the network "forgot the Golden Goose."
• "The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!" Trump tweeted.
• Trump retweeted people who said they were switching to Newsmax and one user who tweeted "#foxnews is dead."
• Insider reported last month that Jared Kushner was floating the idea of a Trump-branded media outlet.
• The president is reportedly now looking into starting his own digital media company to get revenge against Fox News.

President Donald Trump went on a Twitter tirade against Fox News on Thursday morning, escalating recent attacks against his long preferred cable network.

".@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE," Trump tweeted.

"Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what made them successful, what got them there."

—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2020

Trump also said the network "forgot the Golden Goose," possibly a reference to himself.

"The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!" he said.

Insider's Tom LoBianco and Lucia Moses reported last month that Jared Kushner, Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law, was floating the idea of a Trump-branded media outlet. Axios reported on Thursday that the president was now looking into starting his own digital media company to get revenge against Fox News.

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Trump has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Fox News — the president regularly live-tweets its programs and tweets clips of guests or hosts praising him, but he has also been critical of the network.

Election week was more of a turning point. The White House and the Trump campaign lashed out against the network for calling Arizona for Joe Biden on Tuesday night. And Fox News' calling the election for Biden on Saturday shortly after the other major networks only made things worse in Trumpworld.

Trump retweeted several Twitter users on Thursday morning. A few said they wanted to switch from Fox News to Newsmax, a less widely distributed but more explicitly pro-Trump network.

—Ryan W. McCormack (@GWashington1788) November 12, 2020

—nbartovic (@nbartovic) November 8, 2020

Another user put it more bluntly.

"#Foxnews is dead," they said.

—Charles Rutledge (@CharlesRutled18) November 8, 2020