Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle are BANNED from media spin room after Trump skipped debate: Ex-President’s top surrogates are turned away as Republicans bicker over former president
- Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle were told they were not allowed in the spin room after Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate
- The couple blamed Fox News as a security official from the venue whispered something in Trump Jr.’s ear
- Fox had previously said only candidates participating in the debate could send surrogates to the spin room, but later added media orgs could invite them too
MAGA power couple Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle were blocked from entering the media spin room in Milwaukee after Wednesday night’s Fox News Republican primary debate.
Prior to the debate, Fox News Channel said that only presidential candidates participating in the debate would be allowed to bring surrogates into the spin room – meaning that team Trump was out of luck, with the ex-president snubbing the first GOP candidate showdown.
Fox later clarified to say that media outlets could provide access to individuals from campaigns not participating in the first Republican primary debate.
But as Don Jr. and his fiancée proceeded toward the roped-off entryway, they were approached by a member of the Fiserv Forum security team, who whispered in the former first son’s ear.
‘Fox won’t let me into the spin room,’ Trump Jr. said. ‘They’re telling him, he works for security here, but they’re telling him that I’m not allowed to go in there.’
Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle were told they were not allowed to proceed into the spin room when they showed up at the media filing center after Wednesday night’s Fox News GOP primary debate
‘Just so we understand what we’re dealing with here. It shouldn’t surprise any of us and it’s also why Trump was 100 percent right to not go to this debate,’ Trump Jr. said
‘How un-American,’ Guilfoyle then commented.
By then a group of reporters had swarmed Trumpworld’s top couple.
Trump Jr. reasoned that he was being blocked by Fox ‘because the candidates that they’ve been boosting while simultaneously trying to cut down Trump for the last two years didn’t perform as they had hoped.’
‘So they can’t have someone who can maybe be a representative of my father,’ he continued.
Fox News didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.
‘Just so we understand what we’re dealing with here. It shouldn’t surprise any of us and it’s also why Trump was 100 percent right to not go to this debate,’ Trump Jr. said.
Don Jr. also bashed the candidates by saying the debate was ‘like watching high school kids do a bad model UN.’
Trump opted out of the debate to instead have an interview he pre-taped with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson be broadcast on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Trump opted out of the debate to instead have an interview he pre-taped with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson be broadcast on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter
Trump asked why he should get on stage with rivals ‘screaming at me shouting questions at me’ during a debate
The ex-president has been feuding with Fox for months.
‘It’s beneath him and when you know that you’re walking into a setup, because of exactly these kinds of circumstances, you understand exactly what’s going on in mainstream media, even conservative,’ Trump Jr. said of his father’s decision to not participate in the debate.
Eight other Republican candidates participated in the two-hour long event, moderated by Fox’s Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
‘I’ve gotta call balls and strikes, this is no different than what we see from the Democrats,’ Trump Jr. added.
‘It’s very un-American, it’s against the First Amendment,’ Guilfoyle said.
Fox is a private company and not the government, and thus the First Amendment does not apply.