Thread by @MattGertz

Donald Trump sent 65 live-tweets of Lou Dobbs' Fox Business show, quoting from it nearly 40 times from Aug 1, 2018, through his Twitter banning. He loved Dobbs' abject sycophancy.

Trump's final Dobbs live-tweet was December 1, 2020.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1333847089281986566

Dobbs helped shape Trump's policy initiatives. Notably, Trump repeatedly lashed out at Google because of wrong things he had seen on Dobbs' show: mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/trum…

And consulted with him during the 2019-2020 government shutdown over the border wall: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/t…

This is the best thing written about Dobbs' show in the Trump era: "The sinister pro-Trump propaganda of Lou Dobbs," by the late, great @SimonMaloy
mediamatters.org/lou-dobbs/sini…

@SimonMaloy Dobbs' treatment of the "shithole countries" affair "was insane, counterfactual propaganda delivered with maximum outrage and designed to portray Donald Trump as a near-infallible demigod," Simon wrote. "Every episode of Lou Dobbs Tonight is pretty much exactly like this."

Getting rid of Dobbs while simultaneously floating Bartiromo for a prime show on the main network is a pretty good sign that Fox's executives are desperate to stop the ratings bleeding but have no idea how to do it.

Before the Trump era, Dobbs was an early adopter of the birther myth, got canned from CNN because he wouldn't stop talking about it, and then Roger Ailes swooped in to hire him because he was an evil fuck who saw a bigot and had to have him on his network.

I leave you with this. Like most of Dobbs' show over the past four years, it would make a North Korean broadcaster blush.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1172493054483345408

This makes too much sense to not happen. Larry Kudlow and Fox News, two brands that helped kill hundreds of thousands of people from the pandemic, teaming up for a high-profile show.

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1357839137970266114