Former President Donald Trump on Thursday morning went on an angry tirade against the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal for being insufficiently supportive of his 2024 presidential bid.
On his Truth Social page, Trump accused the WSJ's editorial board of being "globalists" and fumed that they were giving more positive coverage to rivals such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
"The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page is really a MESS!" Trump raged. "The Globalist 'paper' sucks, its influence is badly waning, and the concept of, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, is not exactly music to their ears. They fought me hard in 2016, but when I WON, Rupert Murdoch was the first to call. 'Great going,' he said, 'lets have lunch.' He called often, never getting what he wanted to get, or hearing what he wanted to hear. How did that work out, Rupert? Now he’s given up on a hopeless Ron DeSanctimonious, who became Florida’s Governor because of me, only to be pushing Nikki 'Birdbrain' Haley, an even more disloyal candidate than Ron."
Trump then predicted that he would triumph over the "globalists" lined up against him.
"Just like 2016 (In 2020 I got millions of more votes than I did in 2016, but the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!), 2024 will be a GLOBALIST DEFEAT, and a rebuke to the losers at the WSJ, who have gotten almost nothing right for years," he wrote.
In fact, the 2020 election was not "rigged" and Trump lost to President Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes in the popular vote and by 74 votes in the electoral college.
