The front page of the New York Post on Donald Trump’s announcement confirming the war declared by the Murdoch empire

“Florida Man Makes an Announcement”. The second headline on the front page of this Wednesday of the newspaper New York Post, one of the insignia of the media empire of Rupert Murdoch, is dedicated to the launch of Donald Trump the presidential race of 2024. But, in a clear sign that the Australian tycoon’s media group will no longer accompany the former president, the the headline had only four words, and did not even mention the name of the protagonist of the news which was just on page 26.

“There are just 720 days left until the next elections, A retired Florida retiree made a surprise announcement on Tuesday night that he would run for president”, begins the news –just a box on page 26-. In the short text, the New York tabloid cites the former president as an “enthusiast golfer” and for being “famous for his halls of gold and for chasing people on reality shows”. Right in the last of the five paragraphs it says: “Trump was also the 45th president” from the United States.

Murdoch’s empire, which also includes Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, has made his distance public, and criticism of Trump has proliferated. since the midterm elections in which the Republicans had a much worse election than expected – the Democrats have maintained control of the Senate, and the Republicans are preparing to obtain a narrow majority in the House of Representatives -, a performance of which the former president is held up as the great responsible.

“Future” was the cover of The New York Post the next day, in express support for the governor of Florida, Ron De Santis, who won his re-election with a landslide victory and thus became Trump’s great rival in the Republican fight towards the 2024 elections.

The Wall Street Journal it was much more frontal. “Trump is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser”, was the title of an editorial, published the day after the election. “Since his improbable victory in 2016 against the much-hated Hillary Clinton, Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeats,” the newspaper said, recalling the intermediate of 2018, the presidential elections of 2020 and last week’s elections.

In a message about the midterms on his social network Truth last Thursday, Trump lashed out at DeSantis, but also aimed some barbs at Murdoch: “Now that the midterms are over, and they’ve been a success. .. NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the not-so-good New York Post (reports Col! [en referencia a Col Allan, director durante 15 años]), addressed Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, a mediocre Republican governor with great public relations, who didn’t have to shut down his state [durante la pandemia]but that he did, unlike other Republican governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican were just averages — heap averages — including Covid, and who [dirige un Estado que] It has the benefit of the sun, where would the people of the poorly governed Northern states go, no matter who was the governor, as I did!

“This is the same as 2015 and 2016, a media attack (collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the bitter end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive. At the Wall Street Journal the encantaba Low Energy Jeb Bush [el mote que le dedicó a su rival de las primarias de 2016: sin energía, con batería baja] and a number of other people, quickly disappearing from sight, aligned themselves with me after I easily eliminated them, one by one. We are now in exactly the same position. They’ll keep coming for us, MAGA, but… in the end we will win. Put America first and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he also said.

This week, according to British media reports, Murdoch made it clear to Trump that he will not support him in his ambitions to return to the presidency. “Mr. Murdoch made it clear to Trump in recent days that the poor performance of the Republican candidates he supported in the US midterm elections last week They put an end to their political career.assured the source to the British journalist.

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