• Right-wing media figures, including former Fox News hosts, are calling out Fox for its sycophantic coverage of the Iran war. 
• After Paula White-Cain (Trump’s personal spiritual adviser and senior adviser in the White House) likened Trump to Jesus during an Easter event, right-wing media figures lashed out at her, labeling her an “unabashed heretic.” 
• Podcaster Tim Dillon called Trump’s second term “the greatest con in history.” 
• Podcaster Dave Smith on Dan Bongino: “He’s dumb. He’s corrupt as shit. He’s a liar, and he’s trying to ruin good people.” 
• Podcaster Megyn Kelly: “The president’s messaging on Iran has been particularly erratic over the past week.” 
• Several right-wing media pundits criticized Trump’s threats against Iran, with Alex Jones and Piers Morgan calling the treats “genocide.” Tucker Carlson said, “We’re going to use our military to kill the civilians of this country who didn’t choose war.” On Thursday, Trump posted a rant against right-wing pundits who have criticized his war with Iran.

On Tuesday, after days of making threats that included potential war crimes, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire. The U.S. has not achieved many of its objectives (to the extent that objectives were ever clearly defined by the Trump administration) leaving the war with many loose ends. Additionally, the ceasefire appears to already be fraying, leaving it entirely unclear whether or not major hostilities will imminently resume. 

Both critics and supporters of the war have criticized the terms of the ceasefire, saying it is a “defeat” and that “Iran practically got everything that they wanted.” Still, some right-wing figures framed the ceasefire as a “victory” for the Trump administration. 

• Fox’s Sean Hannity said Iran is “demoralized and now apparently ready to agree to terms.” 
• Fox’s Jesse Watters: “Trump just got Iran to cry uncle. They’ve been calling him crazy for making threats, but guess the threats worked. The strait’s on its way to being opened and Iran’s promising to stop firing missiles and drones.” 
• Newsmax host Rob Finnerty said Trump “negotiated the deal of his life” and that Iran “blinked.” 

But other right-wing media figures framed the ceasefire as a defeat for the U.S. 

• Fox host Mark Levin, a leading proponent of the war, said that “this thing’s not over” because “this enemy is still the enemy. They’re still surviving.” 
• Podcaster Megyn Kelly, who has been a vocal opponent of the war, said she was “not willing to pretend that this is some huge victory,” arguing that instead, “It really could be an amazing victory for Iran.” 
• Jack Keane, who has been in favor of the war, said: “I wouldn’t have done what we’re doing. I wouldn’t have gone to the ceasefire, because I think we should take control of the Straits of Hormuz.” 

Right-wing media figures have spent the war moving the goalposts on how long the conflict would last, with some figures saying the U.S. already won the war before this week’s ceasefire.

On Friday morning, Fox's Ainsley Earhardt asked if “we could build a canal through Oman” to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. Fox correspondent Trey Yingst had to let her down gently: “Likely not.” 

• Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on gender and aliens: “You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie.” 
• Newsmax host Rob Schmitt: “If a few bridges are lost in the process of liberating a country of 90 million people, I sincerely doubt most Iranians would mind at all.” 
• Fox’s Greg Gutfeld said women can’t make good leaders and that “there is proof” they “make better fascists than men.” 
• Fox News host Griff Jenkins tried to combat Trump’s “TACO” trait: “Let me give you another acronym — NACHO. Never avoids confronting hard obstacles.”

A year since the announcement of Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs and just over a month since he launched his war against Iran (without congressional authorization), it’s clear that both policies have been utter disasters. Trump’s economic policies have resulted in reaccelerated inflation and anemic job growth, while his military misadventure in Iran cost huge sums of federal funds, spiked fuel prices, and resulted in American casualties. There is also mounting evidence that Trump’s approaches have failed or backfired in spectacular ways by alienating U.S. allies and emboldening adversaries. 

Despite all of this, Fox News personalities have repeatedly urged Americans to bear the consequences of Trump’s chaotic policies as a “sacrifice” for promised economy and national security benefits that have not come to pass. 

• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “The civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States.” 
• Newsmax host Carl Higbie responded to Trump’s threats against Iran, saying, “War crimes — get bent, I don’t care. I don’t really care about it.”
• Megyn Kelly: “I actually believe that Mark Levin would like to have me killed.”

On March 31, Donald Trump issued an executive order “that seeks to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state” and instructs “the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified voters.” Election law experts responded to this executive order by saying it is “likely unconstitutional.” Figures involved in promoting false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, however, have praised this executive order. These figures call it a “major win,” saying Trump is “stepping to the plate” and issuing the order “while the iron is hot,” and claiming, “The Democrats are toast.” 

Trump and his right-wing media propagandists have spread misinformation about mail-in ballots for years. Some Trump allies have proposed that Trump issue an executive order to declare a “national emergency” to prevent supposed election fraud. And over the past few months, we’ve been seeing right-wing figures call for Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents to be sent to the polls during this November’s midterm election.