[Reporter] Inside the White House President Trump stills fumes.
[Trump] Don't talk to me that way.
You're just a lightweight.
[Reporter] Railing against the 2020 result
calling out traitors and commending his patriots.
As the media critique his failure to concede.
[Fox Host] Will he ever concede?
[Reporter] Even Fox News.
[Fox Host] Are you one hundred per cent sure of that call?
[Reporter] The first on election night to call Arizona for Biden
which sent Trump into a fury.
Since then a steady stream of Tweets denigrating Fox
Fox News daytime ratings have completely collapsed.
They forgot the golden goose.
Urging his followers to change the channel.
Fox News daytime, virtually unwatchable.
Watch OAN and Newsmax or almost anything else.
And retweeting actor Randy Quaid’s bizarre video.
Fox News daytime ratings have completely collapsed.
Good evening welcome to Washington.
[Reporter] Fox, the number one cable channel has certainly not collapsed
but in Trump land hard core loyalists are disgruntled.
Even Fox News is crooked.
[Reporter] After the election supporters surged into Washington.
Tens of thousands.
Their loyalty firm.
Some eager to switch to media that parrots Trump’s claims
the vote was stolen and he won.
We are seeing a shift that is coming from a kind of revolt against
the conservative media establishment
and we see that mostly with something like Fox News.
[Reporter] Nicole Hemmer, a political historian
has written extensively about conservative media and the far right.
That is really empowering these other right wing outlets.
Newsmax, one American news on television, but even conservative talk radio as well
to kind of go after Fox and try to claim to be a better authority
a better version of conservative media than Fox News is.
And when you say better, in their eyes, what’s better?
It's more pro-Trump.
Don't believe this garbage in the mainstream media.
[Reporter] OAN, One America News, is a digital channel on the conservative fringe.
Newsmax, a small cable player.
Trump’s promotion is pumping up Newsmax numbers.
Program's like Greg Kelly’s show which reached over a million the week after the election.
The mainstream media relentlessly trying to convince us, trying to at least
that this thing is over.
How many times have they tried to convince us that Donald Trump was finished?
[Reporter] Also on Newsmax, Spicer and Company.
cohosted by the former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
We saw an absolutely astonishing astronomical rise starting the week before the election.
[Reporter] You remember Spicer who in his first briefing chastised the press
for misreporting the size of Trump’s inaugural crowd.
These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm for the inauguration are shameful and wrong.
[Reporter] After 6 months he was out.
Wrote a couple books and
did a spin on Dancing with the Stars.
He started his talk show on Newsmax in March.
I wonder Lindsay if we knew what we know today
in terms of vaccines, the stock market and so much more
how much different the election would be.
Look Susan, I'm not a journalist.
I don't pretend to be one and I've said that over and over again.
The idea is to inform viewers, plain and simple
but I'm very clear about where I stand personally.
I worked for the president, I worked for the Republican National Committee.
I'm a proud conservative.
But we have Democrats on the show all the time.
Did President Trump lose this election?
My thought is, he's got a case.
Whether or not it's strong enough, I don't know, I'm not an attorney.
Ihaven't seen the evidence.
What I'm trying to get at, Sean, is whether you believe that Joe Biden is the president-elect
at this juncture?
If the president overturns these electoral votes in this thing because of some impropriety
because of a constitutional question, what have you, then he will have won.
Is that likely? I think it's an uphill battle, there's no question about it.
But does he have a legal right to pursue these challenges? Yes.
[Reporter] Newsmax's CEO Chris Ruddy is close to Trump
who called him two weeks ago to congratulate.
Just incredible the ratings you're getting.
Newsmax still not acknowledging Trump lost.
What's happening inside Newsmax?
Is this going to be a vehicle for Donald Trump when he leaves the White House?
Chris has been building up Newsmax for quite some time.
And I think he, as he's mentioned in the past
loves having the president come on as a guest in some way, shape or form.
But he's not looking for a partnership.
[Reporter] Behind barricades and construction for Biden's inauguration
Trump continues to peddle he is not the loser, and there’s a ready audience.
Conservative media is growing and splintering.
These are pretty fringe networks and a lot of ways.
They don't have a strong reporting wing, they're primarily producing propaganda
and having more and more Americans consuming more and more propaganda
is a real problem for our political system.
We're going to see this in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
The millions of Americans who won't see Joe Biden's presidency as legitimate.
[Trump] I'm the President of the United States, don't ever talk to the president that way.
[Reporter] But Trump’s time as president is almost up.
Determined to rewrite his ending...
[TV Host] By all indications today the president wants to keep fighting
all the way to the Supreme Court.
[Reporter] He continues to jack up election conspiracies
and hype the media who will help him.
Alright, going forward Susan
how do you expect Trump to actually use those platforms when he's out of office?
Well, firstly important to note, he's not going away.
He will leave the White House in January or before
and go to Maro Lago but from there he will continue to use this conservative media
to help keep his really incomparable political brand alive.
During his presidency, the demand for conservative, right wing media
has only increased so he will pick and choose among them
depending on what he's trying to sell
whether that is as a Republican kingmaker
or as a potential candidate going into the 2024 election
which he has been hinting about in the last few weeks.
As for Fox, once Biden gets in the White House
they will resume a familiar footing as a kind of the official or unofficial really opposition
so with likeminded conservative media they will be keeping a very close eye on this government
and that has worked very handily for them in the past
but don't expect Donald Trump to fade away of course
he will not remain on the outside in the media platforms at all.
Alright, senior correspondent, Susan Ormiston in Washington, thanks Susan.