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Fox News Casually Ignores Trump’s Arnold Palmer-Genitalia Rant

The network didn’t even air the remark live.

Donald Trump‘s Saturday rant about Arnold Palmer’s penis dominated media coverage, even making it into an Associated Press headline. But one wouldn’t know that if they read Fox News.

Fox News‘s digital story on the rally made no mention of Trump’s genitalia-laced remarks in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, instead characterizing the Palmer comments as “a tribute to his late friend and PGA golf legend.”

As a result, it left out the most incendiary of the former president’s comments: “This man was strong and tough. And I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros. They came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.”

The network also never aired the remarks. Halfway through Trump’s ramble on Palmer, the network cut away from his remarks before he made his innuendo, according to CNN media analyst Brian Stelter. In its coverage since, it has made no mention of the remarks.

Fox has aligned itself even closer to the former president in the closing weeks of the election, even as Trump has trashed some of its talent. Fox hosted Trump for an all-women town hall last week with Harris Faulkner, who largely guided him across the hour in front of a supportive crowd.

Trump also appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday, where he demanded the network censor negative ads against him. During the interview, he also said he would raise the issue with Fox News titan Rupert Murdoch.

“I am going to say, ‘Rupert, please do it this way.’ And then we are going to have a victory,” Trump said. “Because I think everyone wants to have a victory.”

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