Trump Bizarrely Claims Fox News Needs To Ask Permission To Even Say His Name

Donald Trump still has an axe to ground with Fox News, and he took aim at the network this week for not mentioning him in a segment where the hosts discussed Republican presidents using the phrase "Axis of Evil." Trump says that the reason the network didn't talk about his foreign policy during the segment is because they have to "ask permission" to use his name from Fox board member and former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. Donald Trump is fundamentally incapable of telling the truth, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Something weird happened with Donald Trump this week. And I have to laugh at my own statement there because pretty much every day something weird happens with Donald Trump. But this week of course it was a meltdown that he suffered after watching Fox and Friends on Fox News, where they were talking about Israel and Gaza and Palestine and all of that. And here's what happened. Steve Ducey had this decision. I remember growing up, I remember Ronald Reagan was talking about the evil empire. I remember George Bush talked about the axis of evil. Of course, he was referring to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Well, now there's a new axis of evil.

That's okay. That's what Steve Ducey said. This new axis of evil, I'm assuming that he's talking about 'cause he didn't say the name. Uh, Iran, Hamas and uh, whoever else he wants to put in there. New axis of evil. Uh, by the way, let's be totally clear before we get into anything here, that when Ronald Reagan did that in the Evil empire and George W. Bush did his axis of evil, uh, anybody wanna remind Steve Ducey about how good that did not end up, uh, for really anyone on the planet? Like those were horrible foreign policy decisions and Ducey like, well we had this good thing and this good thing and now a new good thing. No, no, those were not good things at all and they didn't end well for anyone including the United States, by the way. But anyway, Duc see's little mild comment there where he mentioned Reagan and he mentioned Bush drew Donald Trump's anger and Trump got on true social and bizarrely said this.

Fox and Friends this morning stated that under Ronald Reagan and George Bush, which one, there was a tough policy against terrorists. They're wrong on Bush, but they left out one person Trump, who took out Isis, Al Baghdadi, Soleimani and everyone else who was in the way of justice and peace. Next time, maybe they could ask their bosses like Rhino Paul Rhino for permission to use my name. The good news is based on the polls the people understand, ask permission to use my name Donald. They didn't name you in that. Not because they didn't have permission from Paul Ryan who sure sits on Fox News's board of directors. But Fox News mentions your name every day and if you had actually done anything worthwhile with regard to foreign policy, um, I'm sure they probably would have mentioned it, but you didn't. Sorry, I know that's a tough pill to swallow, bud. You, you wanna think

That you did all kinds of great things? No, I took out this guy, I took out is ISIS still exists by the way? Sorry you didn't do the things that you're claiming that you did. And I also have to point out that you called him Rhino Paul Rhino, you can't begin an end an insult with the same word. Like if you wanted to call Paul Ryan Paul Rhino, like I get that that is the logical leap for that specific insult, right? Rhino kind of sounds like Ryan. I mean, you know, you can see how you get to that or you can call him Rhino Paul Ryan, that rhymes kind of so I see that. But Rhino, Paul Rhino as an insult. I gotta tell you, just constructive criticism here, bud. Uh, definitely not your best. In fact, not only, not your best, not good, right? Let's just be blunt. Not a good insult. Workshop it get back to us on it.