Fox News personality ridicules Trump’s obsession with her: ‘Why is this man not busier?’
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Fox News personality ridicules Trump’s obsession with her: ‘Why is this man not busier?’
President previously called Jessica Tarlov ‘one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television’
Isabel Keane in New York Sunday 20 September 2026 22:42 BST
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Fox News’ lone liberal host clapped back at President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of her, asking, “Why is this man not busier?”
The 80-year-old Fox fanatic has often shared his opinions of the network online, especially of its outspoken left-leaning host Jessica Tarlov, who he called “one of the worst ‘personalities’ on television” in April — as well as “a real loser” in July.
Trump has also called Tarlov “one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television.”
Tarlov, 42, addressed his frequent criticism on the podcast Pod Save America, saying, “Why is this man not busier? There are better things to do.”
“If I had a son I would definitely teach him that when you grow up you should write about how a woman looks on television and sounds, and then call her ‘a big dummy,’” Tarlov retorted.
Tarlov was on the podcast promoting her book, I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends, which hit bookstores on Tuesday. The book, which is a mesh between memoir and advice, details how she handles that type of criticism.
“By the president coming after me and looking at the content of the criticism, I actually got to a place where I genuinely feel like when people pick on you because of style, that you’ve just done really well on substance,” she said.
“That feels good, the inner monologue feels good. It’s still sad and crazy,” she added.
Tarlov, who joined Fox News as a commentator in 2017, is known as the primary liberal voice on the network’s “The Five.” She recently signed a three-year contract with the network — despite Trump’s suggestion that the show would be better off without her.
“I’m trying to show that a Democratic voice like mine can exist there, without an apology,” she told the Los Angeles Times about her Fox position. “And that a person with strong liberal beliefs can bring that same perspective to a host of outlets and places.”
When asked about Trump trying to get her fired, she recently told The Guardian, “I think that [Fox CEO} Suzanne Scott and the entire leadership team know exactly who I am, and that they want me to keep doing what I’m doing.”
She continued: “And if it aggravates him – he would just get annoyed at somebody else, anyone. If he’s in a bad mood, he’s in a bad mood. And I think he understands that as well.”
“I’ve never had a conversation with him, but the idea of posting ‘Dear Fox executives, fire Jessica Tarlov’ or calling into The Five and saying the show would be better without her, I don’t think he thinks that means that I’m going to get fired from my job. … But yes, in general, we don’t respond to it, and there’s no reason to, and honestly it just makes it worse.”
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