Key Trump administration officials appeared on Fox networks over 500 times in his first 100 days in office. President Donald Trump's “border czar” Thomas Homan led all officials with at least 59 appearances while Fox News' Hannity led all shows with 71 interviews.

Trump officials appeared on Fox networks on 96 of the administration's first 100 days. The number of daily appearances by key officials was highest on both February 3, following Trump's announcement of his first set of tariffs, and March 4, seemingly to prime the Fox audience for his congressional address that evening, with at least 13 appearances on each day.

Media Matters looked at Fox appearances by key nominated or confirmed Trump officials during the administration’s first 100 days. Trump's “border czar,” Thomas Homan, remains the most prominent administration official on the networks, appearing at least 59 times in total. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (40 appearances), deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller (40), and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin (33) followed. Rounding out the top five most frequent officials who appeared on Fox is former counselor to the president Alina Habba who had 29 appearances before she left the administration when Trump appointed her interim U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey on March 24.

Trump himself has also been on Fox News several times since his inauguration, appearing at least 8 times in: 2 multiepisode interviews on Hannity, 1 multiepisode interview on The Ingraham Angle, 1 interview on Special Report with Bret Baier, and 1 interview on Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.

Hannity far outpaced all other shows with at least 71 appearances from key Trump officials. Host Sean Hannity interviewed at least 19 unique Trump officials, with Miller (14 appearances), Homan (11), and Leavitt (11) appearing the most. Hannity reliably fawned over guests and the Trump administration, often playing clean-up for controversial actions and laying the groundwork for guests to attack critics.

Following Hannity were Fox & Friends (52), The Ingraham Angle (48), and Jesse Watters Primetime (34), alongside the network's so-called “news-side” shows The Story with Martha MacCallum (34), America's Newsroom (31), and America Reports (28). 

On Fox Business, Kudlow (36 appearances), Mornings With Maria Bartiromo (33), and Varney & Company (28) featured the most appearances by key Trump officials. The administration often turned to Fox Business for economic-related news, with the network providing a friendly environment for officials to defend Trump's often "chaotic" economic policies.

Several of the officials featured on the Fox networks were former employees: former contributor Thomas Homan (59 appearances), former contributor Michael Waltz (21), former network host Sean Duffy (17), former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth (14), former contributor Tulsi Gabbard (6), and former contributor Marty Makary (4). (Trump has tapped many other former Fox employees to be part of his second administration as well.)

Overall, cabinet members made up more than half of the total appearances by Trump officials across both networks, with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appearing at least 33 times, the most of any cabinet official. Attorney General Pam Bondi (24 appearances), Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (24), Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (22), and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins (20) followed close behind.

Every confirmed Cabinet member appeared at least twice on Fox.

Fox hosts and anchors reliably offered a safe space to Trump officials. The Daily Beast said Hannity “tossed” Stephen Miller “softball after softball while reassuring him his shouting and over-the-top rhetoric had been perfectly justified.” An interview with JD Vance on Fox & Friends was described as "extremely friendly." The Arizona Republic's Bill Goodykoontz has described Fox interviews of Trump as a "disgrace," "sycophantic," and "humiliating." And Quinnipiac University professor Mordechai Gordon described Fox hosts as “the President's poodles,” adding that during an interview with Mike Waltz, Waltz and Ingraham “used this opportunity to trash” a perceived enemy of the administration.  

And the hosts always have time to try to get a friend out of trouble. In a Fox & Friends interview with their former colleague Pete Hegseth, now the secretary of defense, host Brian Kilmeade raised baseless conspiracy theories surrounding Hegseth's Signalgate scandal, saying, “Do you think ... there's some type of deep state forces that want to make sure you don't stay there?”

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel for any of the terms “Bessent,” “Bishop,” “Bondi,” “Burgum,” “Carr,” “Collins,” “DeRemer,” “Duffy,” “Gabbard,” “Gorka,” “Greer,” “Habba,” “Hassett,” “Hegseth,” “Homan,” “Kennedy,” “Leavitt,” “Loeffler,” “Lutnick,” “Makary,” “McMahon,” “Miller,” “Navarro,” “Noem,” “Oz,” “Patel,” “Ratcliffe,” “Rollins,” “Rubio,” “Stefanik,” “Turner,” “Vance,” “Vought,” “Waltz,” “Wright,” and “Zeldin” within close proximity to any of the terms “phone,” “guest,” “spoke,” “interview,” “in studio,” “with us,” “with me,” “bring in,” “to discuss,” “to talk,” “let's welcome,” or “calling in” or any variation of the terms “speak,” “react,” or “join” from January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, through April 29, 2025.

We included guest segments, which we defined as instances when Fox Business or Fox News hosted any key member of the Trump administration (including nominees) on one of their shows. Their appearances could be as solo interviews or as a part of panels.

Media Matters also searched our internal database of all original, weekday programming on Fox News Channel (shows airing from 6 a.m. through midnight) for segments that analysts determined to include any of the key members of the Trump administration.

We included the following key nominated or confirmed administration officials: Scott Bessent, Dan Bishop, Pam Bondi, Doug Burgum, Brendan Carr, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Doug Collins, Sean Duffy, Tulsi Gabbard, Sebastian Gorka, Jamieson Greer, Alina Habba, Kevin Hassett, Pete Hegseth, Thomas Homan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Karoline Leavitt, Kelly Loeffler, Howard Lutnick, Marty Makary, Linda McMahon, Stephen Miller, Peter Navarro, Kristi Noem, Mehmet Oz, Kash Patel, John Ratcliffe, Brooke Rollins, Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik, Donald Trump, Scott Turner, JD Vance, Russ Vought, Michael Waltz, Chris Wright, and Lee Zeldin.