• Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy gushed over Trump’s presence at Davos, saying “nothing starts until President Trump arrives — until daddy’s home, as so many people say.” 
• During a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day appearance on The View, actress Pam Grier recounted witnessing lynchings as a child in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh suggested Grier must be “insane or lying or both,” and went on to claim that “lynching was not synomous with racial terrorism,” while The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles claimed that lynching was a “pretty minor phenomenon.”

President Donald Trump has, once again, made a series of threats to take control of Greenland, a move which threatens the continued existence of the NATO alliance. Trump has mused about the possibility of buying Greenland from Denmark or taking the country by force.

As of now, Trump has said his administration will not pursue military action against Greenland and has, instead, resigned to work out a more peaceful deal. Commenting on the deal, Fox’s Brit Hume said, “It’s not entirely clear to me, at least, that what he’s gotten here is any different from what he already had.” 

While some in conservative print media came out against Trump’s deranged threats, many right-wing media personalities began rattling their sabers in support. 

Figures supportive of Trump’s quest for conquest are torn between buying Greenland and taking it by force. 

• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said that it’s “worth talking about” taking over Greenland by force because “that’s the only way that America exists in the first place.” 
• Fox’s Sean Hannity announced his support for giving $100,000 to every person in Greenland in exchange for the island. 
• Fox’s Jesse Watters declared, “What is good and proper for the United States of America is adopting the world’s biggest island: Greenland.” 
• Newsmax’s Greg Kelly said he supports the U.S. acquiring Greenland, saying, “I personally vote yes. I’m still learning about it but it seems like yea, I like it. I like it. It’s about time.” 

Some conservative outlets — mostly in print — came out against annexing Greenland. 

• Conservative pundit Rich Lowry wrote an op-ed in National Review headlined “Don’t Annex Greenland” and argued that Trump’s “foreign policy needs to distinguish between friend and foe.” 
• An editorial in The Washington Examiner argued that “Trump’s deranged text on Greenland is damaging and dangerous.” 
• The Wall Street Journal editorial board criticized Trump’s attacks on Greenland, calling it “Trump’s lesson in how to turn U.S. allies into China’s friends.” 

Of course this is all obscene. Trump is making absurd threats that are fracturing the NATO alliance in pursuit of some imperialistic mission to acquire an island. But we can be sure that Trump’s loyal bootlickers will cheer him on no matter what dystopia he drags the world towards.

• After the AP reported on a memo instructing ICE agents to enter homes without a warrant, Newsmax’s Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano said, “The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American.” He also said, “This is a direct and profound violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
• Newsmax host Rob Schmitt said he questions Trump’s “tactics” toward acquiring Greenland. 
• Podcaster Shawn Ryan, who supported Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, on the Epstein files: “Listen up, everybody. The fucking White House is protecting pedophiles.”
• A host of the Spanish-language right-wing show Cada Tarde responded to ICE detaining American citizens by saying, “I voted three times for Trump, and I have all the moral right to make a criticism, because I have given him too much praise.” 
• Fox host Brian Kilmeade responded to Trump’s inclusion of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a “Board of Peace” by saying, “He has nothing to do with peace. He’s created most of the violence over the last 20 years.”

This week we passed the one year anniversary of Trump’s second administration. From the start of the administration, Fox News has defended and whitewashed the president’s abuses of power, domestic crackdowns, and authoritarian tendencies. 

But over the years, Fox personalities have been quick to call out tyranny and dictatorial behavior where they saw it. On Fox’s airwaves, things like Planned Parenthood, the metric system, pandemic safety measures and regulations on gas stoves in new buildings have all been symptoms of tyranny. Fox personalities have also asserted that permitted and standard actions of Democrat leaders, such as issuing executive orders, exemplified their “dictatorial powers,” and amounted to “a serious crime.” 

Here are just a few examples of things Fox has previously called tyrannical: 

• Former Fox host Tucker Carlson: “Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny — the metric system.” 
• Fox’s Laura Ingraham likened former President Barack Obama’s actions to the “homegrown tyranny” of a “king.” 
• Fox’s Will Cain said that the Biden administration’s push for COVID-19 boosters was an example of “anti-science tyranny,” claiming that “the push for a third shot is not science. It is proclamation. It is an edict by experts.” 

We are witnessing an administration bent on crushing dissent, engaging in violent crackdowns, and punishing its political opponents. On Wednesday, the AP reported on a memo from Immigration Customs Enforcement that instructed agents to enter homes without a warrant.

• As ICE continues its fear campaign in Minnesota and expands to other states, right-wing media have continued spreading the blatantly false claim that the agency is only targeting the so-called “worst of the worst.” This claim is directly contradicted by data showing that many people ICE is apprehending have no criminal record. Additionally, there have been numerous documented arrests of legal residents and U.S. citizens. 
• Tucker Carlson: “The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” 
• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh called for Republican candidates to “pledge to defend white men from the onslaught of racial discrimination that they will face if and when Democrats regain power.” 
• Fox’s Jesse Watters instructed ICE to move from Minnesota to California.

Far-right media figures including Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes are rallying around the Florida gubernatorial campaign of James Fishback, a hedge fund manager who rails against “white genocide,” praises the extremist “groyper” movement, and is currently polling at about 5% in the Republican primary. 

Fishback, the 31-year old CEO of the anti-“woke” investment firm he co-founded, has been on a tour of the right-wing political factions in recent years. After launching his campaign in November, Fishback subsequently positioned himself as what The Bulwark’s Will Sommer described as “the first groyper candidate” — with a media profile to match. 

Fishback has worked his way through interviews with white nationalists and groypers before breaking through with a fawning treatment from Carlson. As right-wing extremism expert Ben Lorber reported, Fishback represents “an ascendant, Gen-Z America First wing of MAGA openly suspicious of Israel, economically populist and steeped in a white Christian nationalist worldview that scorns Jews, women, and nonwhite immigrants.” 

If you would like to read more about Fishback’s candidacy and what it means for the right-wing media ecosystem, I invite you to check out Matt Gertz’s piece breaking it all down.