• Commenting on Trump’s statement he isn't considering Americans’ financial situations during negotiations with Iran, Fox News’ Marc Thiessen said Americans have to accept higher inflation and gas prices or “we’re not a superpower anymore.” Fox News and Fox Business had ignored Trump’s statement — but one Fox show did air parts of Trump’s press gaggle where he made that comment, with Trump’s remarks about Americans’ financial situation edited out.
• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, one of more than two dozen Fox alums Trump has nominated or appointed to senior administration posts, announced on a Fox News appearance last Friday that he had teamed up with his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy (a current Fox host) to produce a reality TV show. The show they shot while Duffy was a public employee serves as a brand-building exercise for future for-profit endeavors. Newsmax’s Greg Kelly said “it does disappoint me” that Duffy made a reality show, but he also claimed that “the deep state” set Duffy up.  
• When asked how long American consumers can weather higher energy prices and inflation, Fox’s Larry Kudlow said, “How about a year.”

While President Donald Trump accuses news outlets of committing “virtual TREASON” by producing reporting that suggests the United States is losing his war against Iran, the president’s loyal Fox News propagandists keep telling him that he’s doing a great job, saying he’s on the verge of victory, and suggesting he can fail only by backing down. 

Ten weeks after U.S. and Israeli forces attacked Iran, Iran’s regime remains intact and in control of both its nuclear stockpile and the Strait of Hormuz. With his war at a standstill and the Iranians rejecting his demands for a negotiated settlement, the president has repeatedly lashed out at the press for undermining the effort with “treasonous” reporting. 

But Trump’s hawkish sycophants on Fox — who encouraged him to launch the war in the first place — are still telling the president that he’s doing everything right. 

Media Matters’ Matt Gertz has a great breakdown of this which you can read here.

• Real America’s Voice host Eric Bolling said Trump is “being overly optimistic to suggest that gas prices will come down anytime soon. They won’t.” 
• A C-SPAN Republican caller said Trump is “taking a 180-degree turn on his priorities from what he promised us.” 
• MAHA influencers voiced their support for embattled Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary amid reports that his job may be in jeopardy. On Tuesday, Markary resigned his position. 
• Nick Fuentes said Steven Crowder and others on the right defend Trump with “plan-truster talking points.”

As concerns about the spread of hantavirus emerge, right-wing and far-right figures are spreading conspiracy theories on podcasts and social media that the virus came from a lab and may be a new “plandemic” (planned pandemic) created to push vaccines, disrupt upcoming elections, or achieve other nefarious goals. 

In early May, a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean experienced an outbreak of hantavirus, a typically rodent-borne virus, causing at least three deaths and at least eight others to become ill or test positive for the virus. The World Health Organization has said that “the risk of hantavirus spreading to the general population is ‘absolutely low,’” with the organization’s head of epidemic and pandemic preparedness saying, “This is not the start of an epidemic, this is not the start of a pandemic.” 

Despite these assurances, some right-wing and far-right figures on podcasts and social media have been baselessly claiming that hantavirus is the beginning of a planned outbreak. Others were more specific, saying that organizations like the World Health Organization were responsible for the spread of the virus. Another emerging talking point is the suggestions that the virus was released to disrupt the 2026 midterm elections. 

These claims about hantavirus are essentially recycled versions of what right and far-right figures pushed during the coronavirus pandemic. Conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 helped drive down COVID vaccination rates and primed people to reject other vaccines. Recycling the same claims could help further entrench vaccine resistance and erode public trust in health institutions at a time when the Trump administration has already been cutting federal resources for pandemic preparedness.

• A Newsmax guest said Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) “should be hung for treason.” 
• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said Martin Luther King Jr.’s “fake pastor voice” sounds “phony and ridiculous.” 
• Fox’s Lisa Kennedy Montgomery called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “the Fuhreress.”

Donald Trump’s war with Iran has caused oil prices to surge, spiking gas prices across the country. Local news outlets have spotlighted the various impacts these record high prices have had on Americans and the people and industries we rely on, from farmers and truckers to first responders, small business, and even our schools, among many others. 

• California’s ABC30 Action News spoke to a farmer and ag transporter paying $20,000 more a month on diesel: “I worry every day we’re going to go broke.” 
• A reporter from South Bend, Indiana’s WSBT 22 said “many are worrying about how they will adjust their budget just to buy gas.” 
• A reporter from Peoria, Illinois’ WEEK Peoria 25 heard from a local resident that “she has had to cut down on her trips to visit her husband in his nursing home from weekly to once every two weeks.” 

Local news stations are also covering how communities are trying to provide support to families losing their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits due to newly imposed restrictions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Meanwhile Fox News, which advocated for work requirements and other restrictions, celebrated the resulting loss of benefits for millions, and is also helping the Trump administration push other changes to the food stamp program. 

• Rockford, Illinois, station WIFR News reported that “putting food on the table will soon be harder for thousands of people around Rockford” due to SNAP cuts. 
• CBS News Chicago: “Food pantries across the Chicago area are racing to prepare for an increase in demand as changes to the SNAP program are set to have a major impact starting May 1.” 
• Portland, Oregon, station KGW News 8: “New SNAP rules push more Oregonians to food pantries.”