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I am back from Labor Day weekend and here to tell you that the Sadiq Khan tweet was about a Fox Business segment.

Left, Fox Business, 9:16 a.m.

"What's interesting about Khan is that knife crime in London has reached unprecedented levels."

Right, Trump, 10:48 a.m. (orig 10:20)
Khan's name -- misspelled or otherwise -- was not shown in Fox chyrons.
Alright going to look through the tweets since Friday night for livetweets since I was out of town. At first glance, there are... many of them.
Friday night, 8/30

Left, Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight, 7:23 p.m.
Right, Trump, 7:54 p.m.
On Saturday morning, after retweeting a bunch of Republican senators, Trump tweeted another quote from the same Lou Dobbs segment he had tweeted the night before.

Left, Fox Business, 7:22 p.m.
Right, Trump, 8:11 a.m.
Trump had "Just watched Congresswoman Debbie Dingell" on Fox News Saturday afternoon.

Left, Fox, 2:17 p.m.
Right, Trump, 2:29 p.m.
A normal Saturday afternoon watching the Journal Editorial Report.

Left, Fox, 3:23 p.m.
Right, Trump, 4:14 p.m.
Trump started his Sunday morning -- after a gunman killed seven and injured at least 21 in Texas, with a Cat 5 hurricane hurtling through the Caribbean -- by watching Fox & Friends.

Left, Fox & Friends Sunday, 7:18 a.m.

(note the identifying caption)

Right, Trump, 8:25 a.m.
After retweeting the National Hurricane Center and FEMA several times on Sunday, he was back to live-tweeting Fox.

Left, Fox & Friends Sunday, 7:28 a.m.
Right, Trump, 8:58 a.m.
Hey, remember Trump's bizarre Sunday morning attack on Debra Messing, complete with "Sir" story? It was a Fox & Friends live tweet.

Left, Fox & Friends Sunday, 8:56 a.m.
Right, Trump, 9:26 a.m.
The rest of Sunday afternoon and evening was tweets and retweets of Dorian information (some wrong) and retweets of previous Trump tweets that embedded Fox video.
**Deep breath** On Sunday night, Trump livetweeted a segment from the reair of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight. The show originally aired Friday night; Trump livetweeted a different segments that night and Sat morning.

Left, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 7:54 p.m.
Right, Trump, 8:53 p.m.
To be clear:

Friday night: Lou Dobbs Tonight airs; Trump tweets a quote from a segment.

Sat morning: Trump tweets a different quote from same segment.

Sunday night: Show reairs; Trump tweets a quote from a different segment.
Even by the typical standards of my peculiar beat, this is wild.
Trump kicked off Labor Day by tweeting praise of his economic policies from the prior night's edition of Fox's The Next Revolution. Note the split-screen with "Latest on Dorian."

Left, Fox, 9:04 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:36 a.m.
AFter that he apparently caught up with Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace's Fox Broadcasting show.

Left, Fox Broadcasting, 9:32 a.m. (9/1)
Right, Trump, 9:46 a.m. (9/2)
I'm... confused. This long quote from Steve Hilton appears to have come on his program's July 21 edition?

Left, Fox's The Next Revolution, 9:03 p.m. July 21
Right, Trump, 7:57 a.m., Sept 2
Ah, later in the day he retweeted a prior tweet of his that had embedded that video. I guess it's a favorite?
I think that's it. Since Friday night, President Trump has sent 23 tweets in response to Fox News or Fox Business programming, plus five retweets of previous tweets that embedded Fox coverage.

Reminder that he canceled the weekend's trip to Poland to monitor the hurricane.
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