FOX News host Bill O'Reilly confronted Republican front-runner Donald Trump on several issues during a Wednesday night interview, calling the real estate mogul "too thin-skinned" at one point. As Trump complained that CNN's line of questioning for the other candidates "was really unfair" in the way that questions appeared to invite them to bash Trump, O'Reilly asked if he believed CNN was biased against him, according to FOX News.
"Do you think CNN dislikes you, the news organization itself?" asked O'Reilly. Trump responded, "Well, honestly, I think I get better press from CNN than I do FOX, Bill. If you want to know the truth."
"[O]ur job is to be tough," said O'Reilly. "You want power."
"I get covered better, I think I get covered better, I think I get covered better on CNN than I do on Fox," Trump continued.
"You are too thin-skinned," O'Reilly said.
However, Trump took issue with that claim, saying he can "handle" accurate criticism.
"I don't mind bad things about me if it's true, I can handle that. But when people say untrue things, I don't like it. I don't think I'm thin-skinned, no," said Trump, Politico reported. "I like to have the truth told about me. And you know what? If I do something wrong, I know it's wrong, and if somebody goes after me, including you, I don't mind it at all. But when I didn't do something wrong and they make it up, and they make things up, that I don't like, Bill."
Earlier in the show, O'Reilly and conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer had a tense moment over Trump's suggestions that the U.S. should "take out" the families of terrorists in which O'Reilly defended Trump, Mediaite reported. Krauthammer called the idea "nonsensical," but O'Reilly tried to dismiss it.
“You believe that Donald Trump would murder people if he were President of the United States?” asked O'Reilly. Krauthammer shot back, “If he doesn’t want to, why did he say it?”
Trump and O'Reilly have had multiple episoides of heated back-and-forths on the host's show, including on Trump's claims about thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and on his mass deportation plan, Business Insider reported.
