Rupert Murdoch told News Corp.’s shareholders that former President Donald Trump needs to get over himself.
"The current American political debate is profound, whether about education or welfare or economic opportunity,” he said at Wednesday’s annual meeting. "It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate, but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past. The past is the past, and the country is now in a contest to define the future.”
Murdoch is the founder and executive chairman of News Corp., and its primary U.S. holdings are Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the Wall Street Journal; the New York Post; and book publisher HarperCollins. Murdoch also met with shareholders of another one of his companies, Fox Corp., last week. Fox, of course, owns lots of things named Fox, including Fox News. Murdoch didn’t mention Trump at the Fox gathering.