Donald Trump vows to boycott Fox News after ‘unfair treatment’

That most mercurial of tweeters, Donald Trump, is once again in a fight with Fox News after the network canceled his scheduled appearance on the O’Reilly Factor, the Star-Ledger reports.

“Let’s be honest: Carly cut his b**** off with the precision of a surgeon – and he knows it”, Lowry said on The Kelly File.

Following the first Republican debate, Trump famously attacked Fox News commentator and the debate’s host Megyn Kelly.

Following the controversy, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes came to Kelly’s defense but according to Trump, called him to assure he would be treated fairly on the network.

On Wednesday night, Trump finally moved on from his anti-Fox tweets and announced that he would be appearing on CNN and MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, two networks he is not boycotting – yet. But Fox emailed a statement to media outlets Wednesday to say Trump’s nose was out of joint over a scheduling conflict.

This incident is another example of the unfair treatment that Trump claims he has been subjected to by Fox.

Fox consistently has the largest audience in cable news, but Trump has other options in the endlessly fragmented media universe.

“I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future”, Trump wrote on Twitter.

This week Trump took to Twitter to declare that Kelly was “highly overrated” and added that Bill O’Reilly features “the same old Trump haters” on The O’Reilly Factor.

Too bad Ailes doesn’t live by the advice of the Erik Wemple Blog, which instructed the TV genius and former Republican operative to simply cover Trump and stop negotiating with him.

On Wednesday, a Fox News source argued that Trump was antagonizing Fox in order to create controversy and draw attention to himself because of his decline in the polls. A new Fox poll indicates that his rise has stalled.

And he was on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night.

Trump won’t have much luck getting Lowry to pay up for his anatomical comment, as the Federal Communications Commission only polices indecent programming on radio and television – not cable television, where viewers have greater control over their programming options.