• Some right-wing media pundits are asking questions about Trump’s age and mental acuity. Alex Jones, for example, called Trump a “mean old man.” 
• Candace Owens: “Trump is very clearly under demonic influence.”
• Tucker Carlson on Trump: “Could this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?” 
• Podcaster Tim Dillon said, regarding the war with Iran, “It’s pretty clear to everybody who’s honest that we’ve lost.”
• Podcaster Joe Rogan on Trump’s “terrifying” war with Iran: “Most people that voted for Trump or wanted Trump to be in office, one of the things that was attractive was this no more wars.”

Since President Donald Trump began his misguided war with Iran in February, serious fractures have emerged in right-wing media. Many pundits have broken from the administration, calling the war an “open betrayal of the base.” Some right-wing Christian media figures, however, are continuing to support Trump’s war. 

These right-wing Christian media personalities — including several prophetic figures who claim to share prophecies, or messages from God, with their audiences — have celebrated that “God was brought in” by Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in public messaging of the war, and claimed that “we are on God's side” so “whatever we do would have His blessing.” At the start of the war, some of these figures celebrated that the conflict could signal the “End Times” and claimed, “We are watching an incredible prophecy in this time come to pass.” 

Indeed, Trump and Hegseth have sometimes framed the war in religious terms, drawing support from right-wing Christian media figures for whom Iran is reportedly “not just a strategic adversary but part of a prophetic story.”

Hegseth's framing is not landing in some circles of right-wing media. Megyn Kelly said: “On the subject of theology making its way into the White House a lot, you know, President Trump taking on the pope and posing as Jesus, I've got to talk to you about Pete Hegseth. I'm a fan of Pete's. I helped get him this job. He would be the first to tell you that. However, I am not a fan of the praying and the constant references to God, Jesus, and the Bible from the Pentagon while he's announcing war plans. It makes me very uncomfortable. Very. I do not think those two things belong together.”

• Fox’s Sean Hannity volunteered himself to ask Pope Leo the “tough questions” about war and the Bible. 
• Fox Business host Charles Payne on high gas prices: “I think this will be a flash cost spike that was worth it, because we’re going to get something I call the peace dividend.” 
• Podcaster Tim Pool suggested that Trump may have “intentionally flubbed all of this” with Iran. 
• Newsmax’s Greg Kelly commented on Trump’s since-deleted Jesus Truth Social post, saying, “It’s not blasphemous. If it were blasphemous, I wouldn’t be showing it.”

On Monday, Donald Trump posted a photo to his Truth Social account depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure. Right-wing and conservative Christian commentators quickly denounced the post, calling it “blasphemous,” “horrific,” and “completely inappropriate.” In a rare moment of retreat, Trump deleted the post and claimed it was “supposed to be me as a doctor.” 

This was not the first time Trump has shared posts depicting himself as or comparing himself to religious figures. But something about this post set the right-wing media landscape ablaze. A Daily Wire host and Fox News contributor both said the post was “sacrilegious.” Megyn Kelly called it “blasphemous,” and even loyal Trump toady Benny Johnson said, “I’m also offended when anyone projects themselves as Christ.” While commenting on the post, right-wing radio host Jesse Kelly gave an anemic defense, saying, “Older people, they do struggle with some aspects of social media.” 

The post came in the midst of Trump attacking Pope Leo XIV over comments the pontiff made regarding the war with Iran. Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo said the attack was “sloppy and frankly disrespectful," but Fox’s Sean Hannity said Trump is “right in challenging what this pope is suggesting,” adding, “I don’t blame the president for fighting back.”

• Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane is a vocal supporter of the Iran war from his perch as a Fox News senior strategic analyst, regularly arguing that the United States and Israel should escalate their joint military campaign and avoid diplomatic off-ramps. But Keane also sits on the boards of directors of two defense contractors which potentially stand to benefit from the war with Iran — a fact that Fox appears not to have disclosed to its viewers since the beginning of the war. 
• The proposed 2027 budget released by the Office of Management and Budget is filled with ideas that appear copied and pasted from Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. Russ Vought, the head of the OMB, was an architect of the extreme right-wing media initiative and its signature publication before being hired by Trump.
• Fox’s Jesse Watters said Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate because “the Blacks were burning things down.”

Fox News programs that fixated on the international business interests of Hunter Biden, former President Joe Biden’s son, are utterly uninterested in the voluminous conflicts of interest between Donald Trump and his family members and the Persian Gulf states affected by his strategically disastrous war of choice against Iran. The president, his eldest sons, and his son-in-law are enmeshed in a sprawling set of business deals in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar. 

From just before the beginning of the year, as Trump’s saber-rattling led to U.S. military deployments and became the war launched by American and Israeli forces on February 28 through April 8, Fox’s evening programs that air from 5 p.m. to midnight ET referenced such Trump family conflicts of interest only twice. Both of those instances were only passing mentions, and neither came up during a discussion of the Iran conflict. 

Rewinding back a few years, many of Fox’s highest-rated hosts carried a yearslong obsession with what Fox host Sean Hannity described as the “Biden Crime Family,” mentioning Biden’s son at least 13,440 times over a period of less than 16 months of Biden’s presidency. No substantive evidence ever emerged that Biden ever profited from Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings. But Trump and his family members have adopted influence-dealing on a dramatically larger scale than the Biden family was ever accused of.

I invite you to read more about this in Media Matters’ senior fellow Matt Gertz’ great piece for MS NOW.