While Donald Trump’s marriage to Melania is obviously not rock-solid, it appears he also caused marital problems for News Corp chairman and CEO Rubert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, who reportedly hates the former president.

The problems for Hall,66, and Murdoch, 92, escalated after Trump was elected president in 2016.

“During dinners we had with Jerry and Rupert, Jerry wouldn’t hold back,” said Tom Cashin, Hall’s friend.

And of course, Trump’s behavior toward the model and actress didn’t improve the situation, OK! News reports. After his election Hall asked him to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline away from Native American reservations that were fighting the pipeline. Trump responded by asking her if she wanted to be his Bureau of Indian Affairs.

“It was horrible,” Hall told friends later. “I couldn’t wait to get away.”

At one point Murdoch wanted to buy a house in Florida to be near Mar-a-Lago but Hall was deadset against it. She told friends that she disliked Trump and was against him being in office.

Murdoch is the head of a vast media empire that includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London, and The Wall Street Journal and even though he wanted to move closer, he wasn’t particularly fond of Trump either.

“Rupert knew he was an idiot,” said an insider with ties to the billionaire.

But that changed when Trump became president and Murdoch widely supported him.

And when he decided to divorce Hall, whom he married in 2016, he coldly informed her of his decision in an email:

“Jerry, sadly I’ve decided to call an end to our marriage,” he wrote. “We have certainly had some good times, but I have much to do…My New York lawyer will be contacting yours immediately.”

This was definitely a chilly way to end a marriage, and Hall was shocked because the couple “never fought.”

Their divorce was finalized in 2022.

Apparently, the couple’s split left Cashin surprised as well. Before the breakup, Murdoch and Hall seemed like a “happy and wonderful fit,” he said.

And Hall told friends “He was an old-fashioned gentleman. We laughed together nonstop.”

Apparently, it was not long before Murdoch began looking for someone else he could divorce later on (he’s been married four times), but he stopped short of marrying Ann Lesley Smith, recently calling off the engagement, perhaps because this is undoubtedly a stressful time for Murdoch.

His baby, Fox News, has been hit with a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company Dominion because the cable news channel continually pushed Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged.

“If we lose this suit it’s f**king bad,” one senior Fox staffer said during an interview.

While $1.6 billion sounds staggering, it won’t put much of a dent in Murdoch and his family’s net worth, which Forbes estimates to be $17.7 billion.

But if it’s “f**king bad if Fox News loses, then I’m all for it. After all, that’s where we get much of our misinformation from, and Media Bias/Fact Check rated it as “low credibility,” and notes it has failed numerous fact-checks. So if Fox News goes down the tubes, the ocean of mainstream media will shrink a little bit. Just a little bit, but anything is better than nothing.