Washington (CNN) - There appears to be another sign business mogul Donald Trump is at least considering a White House bid:
He's landed a regular gig at Fox News.
Called "Monday Mornings with Trump," the unlikely presidential candidate will be featured in a regular weekly segment on the morning show Fox and Friends, the network announced.
"Bold, brash and never bashful, The Donald now makes his voice loud and clear every Monday on Fox," says a network promo.
A spokesman for Fox tells CNN Trump is not being paid for the new segment.
Still, the weekly segment could draw criticism in light of the fact the network has or currently employs no less than five Republicans who have at least said they are considering a White House bid.
Last month the network formally suspended former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum as contributors – two men that have criss-crossed the country for months ahead of likely presidential bids. But continuing in roles at the network are former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, host of a weekend show on Fox News, as well as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a regular Fox News contributor – both of whom have expressly left open the possibility of a presidential run.
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Well we knew this was coming...
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the room when Roger Ailes and Donald Trump are having a business meeting, the size of egos in that room must show up as a huge blimp on all the radars, satellites and even the doppler weather radars...
Fox is paying Donald what he is worth.
Trump joins the birther crowd and then FOX hires him. Coincidence?
Great, a phony politician like Trump should fit in well with a phony "news" channel like Fakes News.
AHHAHAHHA!!!! All he had to do was spout some 'Birther' nonsense, and they are falling over themselves to get him AND the dead squirrel stapled to his head on the air! How long did it take for them to Sign him up !??
Will he have to quit again in a few weeks when he announces that he's running for pres on the GOP-TeaParty ticket?
HEY FOX NEWS: I can make stuff up about the President, too! In fact, i think he's from another planet! Can I get a gig on your channel now?
Oh neat, another FOX employee for President.........I thought prostitution was illegal???
If you want free advertising in a bid to run for President, go to FOX. It is the media arm of the Tea-Publican Party. They have no problem telling lies to promote their agenda. They have FOX NEWS and it is their own Special Operstions Department like the CIA that will even invent their own facts to support their lies.
Even if Trump can stop at Fox every single day until Nov.2012; he will never get votes from Dems and Independents. Which will sum up as a bid failure and wastage of time!
So I guess the newest, best way to get a job on Faux Snooze is to become a birther and T-Bag devotee
NOW we know what he was really campaigning for!
A secure income stream from Murdoch!
Not surprising...you can't really, if you are a republican, run for president unless you are employed by Fox "News".
If you want to be a Republican President you better pay your dues and work for FOX which is the GOP. Other wise you might not bet their endorsement and you might be put on the enemy list like all Democrats are.
Well, surprise, surprise.....it seems as though the Donald has finally revealed his true colors, in all their psycodelic glory. Maybe this will finally lead to Trump finally being reduced to what he deserves: irrelevancy. People who's fortunes are based in their ancestors being slumlords and who see destroying people as entertainment does not set a right tone for the White House.
Time to trot out all the news clips of him denouncing Bush only 3 years ago!
Trump's going for the low hanging fruit. First the birthers and now those who can't distinguish opinion from news.
FAUX NEWS can have him!
it's good to know that you have all of the right-wing lying scumbags on one network!!!!
Great place for someone who likes truthiness (what you want the facts to be and not what they are). It is the place for opinions that aren't being held back by the facts.
Another GOP Presidential hopeful on Faux News...What else is new?
Trump doesn't do anything for free because with him everything has a trade-off and I bet the trade-off is he won't be contributing or raising money for any of these potential GOP candidates.
Yet another reason not to watch Fox News. Do they really consider themselves a credible news source still???
It pains me greatly to say this. The old Donald Trump was way better than this. This is now a perfect fit. I hope Fox brings Donald down or he brings them down.
Really?? Donald Trump is now, officially, a joke.
He officially part of the Beck, Hannity, Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee, O'Reilly dysfunctional family of political pundits that American's would never elect to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I'd expect someone that says he is REALLY, REALLY smart to know that, before he challenges the legitamacy of President Obama, he would know that by virtue of JUST ONE OF HIS PARENTS [in this case, his mother] being an AMERICAN citizen and because she lived in America prior to his birth, SECTION II of the Constitution, in conjunction with numerous Case Law Precidents, CLEARLY states that Barack Hussien Obama is a "NATURALLY BORN US CITIZEN", and therefore MEETS every Constitutional requirement to be President.
Trump is a loud mouth blowhard. If he is so pro-American, why is he on a network owned by a citizen of the UK?
With the blatant lies he's been spreading lately, he'll fit right in with the others in the Faux News lineup. It's sad that so many Americans believe the nonsense.
Can you say "conflict of interest"? Sure you can. I knew you could.
Just as I suspected. A publicity stunt for another Tv show. Donald, the little bit of respect i had for you has goneout of the window. So you've got a show on NBC, Comedy Central and now Fox. The sad thing is that they all suck and your Fox profram hasn;t even begun to air yet.
This should completely erase any notion that Fox News is a credible, fair and balanced news organization or that Donald Trump is a viable candidate for the President...Trump will promptly insert his foot in his mouth and swiftly disqualify himelf from consideration. Instead of the Presidency, Mr. Trump should be in contention for the Circus-Clown Of The Year award...but wait that honor is already being shared by Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann.
On second thought, at least this makes all that birther crap make some sense he was interviewing for his new gig when he spewed that stuff.
And then he gets to launch a political campaign. This is perfectly legal folks. You can thank "Citizens United" for this practice. Business can dump as much cash as they wish into a politician and not even have to report it. Media outlets can hire them and put them on the air, which amounts to political air time.
In a normal world, you would think the politician would have to pay for his air time. Now he gets paid to do it. This is only the beginning of what the SCOTUS decision will do to this country. It has opened the door to businesses demanding, and getting, the right to vote. Once that happens, they will get more than one vote per business. Just watch and see. There is nothing in the "Citizens United" vote to make me think it won't, and a lot support the argument that they will.
Donald Trump is a MORON with money His opinion about politics or any other subject is of no importance for people with an IQ above 100 . I remember the time that CNN was more serious in their report ; you have become a tabloid of stupidity , please go back to basis to the time that we all use to say when something important happens "Go to CNN channel"
Fox News has had various individuals on the air complaining about the "mainstream media". They have even had some of their hosts distinguish themselves as not being part of the "mainstream media", and that Fox News is "fair and balanced". I have often wondered why they are so proud of not being part of the "mainstream media".
If you are part of the mainstream, where does that leave you? The only space left over outside of the mainstream is the extreme.
FOX News and the conservative extreme right radical media is incredible....
Rating ratings, ratings...money, money, money, that's all the Trump's, Palin's et al, are really after
The american conservative public is incredibly naive...they swallow it whole...based on their hate, not on thei belief
The GOP really and we mean really hates President Obama...doesn't matter what he does, they will always be against him...
Once again the young, minorities, and the rest of America who has common sense and an open mind...willl make the difference and have Mr President Barack Obama ree-elected for "FOUR MORE YEARS"...swallow that GOP!!!!!...
Wow. What a surprise. I guess his recent birther nonsense was just part of his audition, right?
Lovin it, anything to drive the Liberals crazy sounds good to me!
This must be an April fools joke?
LOL!! Of course!! All that birther nonsense was just a ploy to get his foot in the door of Fox Propaganda!
They don't have to be paying him cash for this to be unethical and potentially illegal. The free air time and, essentially, advertising they are giving him has an immense value. How many pairs of Depends do you think the GOPers/Teatards would run thru if CNN suddenly stuck Obama on TV every Monday morning for free? Issa would issue subpoenas in a heartbeat.
Don't all republicans get a fox gig?
Well I guess he needs to do something since NBC did not renew Celeb Apprentice.
the supreme court says corporations are individuals.
FOX News has just announced that FOX News is running for president of the united states as a republican.
this country is such a sad joke !!!!
it really sucks more and more
Sounds about right.
Cash rules everything around me.
Donald, please continue to murk up the current GOP candidate race with your bafoonery. Join the ranks of Bachman, Mitt, Palin, Pahlenty and the rest of the clown parade, preying on the ignorance of America to get their name in the news and vacum up as much of their idiot followers money as possible.
See you in '12 when the Dems celebrate the progress of the country and the GOP scurries back to the drawing board to figure out new and improved ways to obstruct and disrespect The President of The United States for yet another four years...
"Do they really consider themselves a credible news source still???"
They never did. Think it through.
These rethugs are one joke after another and faux news and the koch brothers just can't have enough of these cretins around!
I guess bad hair man gave up his consideration to the president. Not that he had a chance in he ll, but . . . . .
Match made in heaven.
GREAT. Just were he belongs – along with all the other moronic losers.
This is exactly why i never watch Fox News....they hire all the wanna be idiots.
I don't watch Fox, I don't watch Apprentice, and I don't care what Trump does. I do know that all the money in the
world will not buy class, dignity, nor respect, so he will fit right in with this bunch of vapid wannabes.
It is useful to remember that the high-profile figures (e.g. Trump, Bachmann, Palin, Limbaugh) are only chesspieces doing what they are assigned to do . The players are people like Murdoch for whom REAL money starts at a billion dollars and who genuinely, sincerely believe that the average American is neither more nor less than livestock, good only for pushing commodity prices and being used in life and death for profit.
Which was probably his plan all along. he has no intention of running for President because he knows he would get slaughtered. He just wants his ego stroked. He's vain, vapid and a loudmouth – a perfect match for Fox.
Another nutjob joins Faux Newz - this time a born-again birther.
What else is new?
I didn't believe that it was possible for Fox News to loose any more credibility.
I was wrong.
FIRST, they get crazy, THEN they get a job on FOX News. So does anyone really wonder why NO ONE with a room temerature IQ doesn't take FOX seriously?