“He really gets the word out,” President Trump says of the Fox Business Network anchor.
By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Manuel Roig-Franzia Feature reporter Email Bio Follow Robert Costa Robert Costa National political reporter covering the White House, Congress and campaigns Email Bio Follow April 27 at 6:00 AM One day in mid-March, President Trump gathered his top economic team at the White House to get its read on the state of the nation’s financial health.
Born just nine months apart, the 70-somethings share a penchant for schoolyard-style name-calling, grumbling about enemies seen and unseen, an apocalyptic view of illegal immigration and a deep embrace of hair-color shades not found in the natural world. Harvey S. Rosen, who chaired the council in 2005, said Bush never made such calls either, but added, “the president is entitled to seek advice from whomever he wants and whenever he wants.”
Trump’s affection for all things Fox is well-established, as demonstrated by his metronomic references to the morning program “Fox & Friends” and his private chats and cheerleading for prime-time Fox News host Sean Hannity. But in Dobbs, Trump also finds a certain special wisdom. “Lou has a very strong opinion on the border, and I do listen to that opinion,” Trump said in a phone interview Tuesday evening from the Oval Office.
But Dobbs “doesn’t care,” the friend said. “He’s at the end of his career, and he’s going to do what he wants to do.” In 1999, his long tenure imploded spectacularly in a fit of pique when Dobbs ordered his crew to cut away from then-President Bill Clinton’s speech in Colorado after the Columbine school shooting massacre. When CNN executives forced Dobbs to go back to the speech, he peevishly announced on air that “CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton.”
Some of Dobbs’s associates theorized he was crassly capitalizing on the market for conservative viewers Fox News had so deftly recognized. The end for Dobbs at CNN came around the time the network released a major documentary titled “Latino in America” that showed immigrants in a positive light, and was spearheaded by O’Brien. BastaDobbs, a protest movement using the Spanish words for Stop Dobbs, was spawned around the idea it was hypocritical for CNN to promote O’Brien’s production while also giving such an important forum to Dobbs, who the demonstrators accused of spreading lies and misinformation.
Dobbs decided against an Oval Office run. In 2010, he took a job at the Fox Business Network. It was a big step down to an offshoot network from the broader platform of CNN. Yet in the years since, he’s become the most-watched host on business television, a position he’s held since before Trump took office, according to the network, which says he’s also had good ratings with Hispanics.During Dobbs’s early years at Fox Business, Trump didn’t have a close relationship with him.
On his nightly show the month before the election, Dobbs urged Americans to “rouse themselves from a long slumber . . . and vote. Vote for your country or lose it. That’s where we are.” The phenomenon of Trump and Dobbs as almost a single brain connected not by neurons, but by cable wires, has been reinforced by repetition.
“The president noticed that, and that was the start of Bill’s problems, in some ways,” the official said.“This is the president of the United States,” Dobbs told his audience in January. “He says a wall should be built. That it’s a national emergency. At that point the nation should rally behind him.”Shine, in office for just eight months, was out of a job before the national emergency went to a vote in Congress.
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