• Newsmax’s Greg Kelly dismissed Trump’s remark on empty shelves and rising prices, saying, “Kids in America - rich kids, poor kids, middle-class kids - probably have too many toys.” Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro said Trump’s comment was a “tremendous commercial for Democrats.” 
• Fox’s Sean Hannity defended cutting federal funding of cancer research: “That’s where the private sector comes in.” 
• Fox host Jesse Watters: “Regular folks don’t live and die by GDP.”

• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk: “Large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.” 
• Newsmax’s Greg Kelly: “That 22nd Amendment about not being able to run for a third term just might be unconstitutional.”

• After Fox’s Jessica Tarlov pointed out that an Oklahoma family was mistakenly raided by ICE, Jesse Watters said, “No one even believes your stories anymore.” 
• Sean Hannity downplayed the shrinking economy: “The GDP drop was actually supposed to be much worse.” 
• Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan: “Civil rights are just leftism in blackface.” 
• White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller: “Fox News needs to fire its pollster.” 
• Ben Shapiro: “Head Start is one of the great fails in federal history.”

President Donald Trump’s zealous propagandists have been unable to come to terms with his increasing unpopularity, instead offering a range of pathetic excuses for his cratering poll numbers. 

Surveys conducted for The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and other news organizations covering the first 100 days of Trump’s second administration show his support in freefall. Trump’s overall job approval numbers are dropping into the low 40s and even high 30s while he is underwater with the public on nearly every issue. 

But the audience of MAGA media outlets largely consists of Trump’s most loyal supporters, and that gives right-wing stars at Fox News and similar outlets every incentive to deny the reality that the American public has quickly become disenchanted with Trump. Media Matters’ Matt Gertz breaks their denials down into five categories: 

• The polls are fake. 
• The polls are a “psyop.” 
• The polls are only bad for now because Trump’s “agenda is not built for 100 days.” 
• Actually, the polls are “not bad.” 
• It’s impossible to not see this administration is a “huge success.” 

I invite you to read the whole piece here to see how right-wing media denials are operating.

Fox News personalities have gone all in supporting Trump’s plan to extend his unpopular 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, offering a hodgepodge of justifications for why it’s necessary to keep taxes low for rich people and businesses as Congress moves to slash billions in social safety net programs. 

Fox’s charm offensive comes as congressional Republicans debate the fine points of the looming budget, including how deeply they’ll reduce spending on Medicaid and nutrition assistance programs for working class families to offset the lost tax revenue. Fox’s view is that tax cuts, especially for the wealthy and corporations, are necessary, and from there you work backward. 

Media Matters’ John Knefel wrote this great piece detailing how Fox is trying to justify Trump’s tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations.

Key Trump administration officials appeared on Fox networks over 500 times in his first 100 days in office. 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 this 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. 

Several of the officials featured on the Fox networks were former employees: former contributor Homan, former contributor Michael Waltz (Trump’s recently ousted national security adviser), former network host Sean Duffy (secretary of transportation), former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth (secretary of defense), former contributor Tulsi Gabbard (director of national intelligence), and former contributor Marty Makary (FDA commissioner). Trump has named 22 current or former Fox employees to positions in his administration.

• Media Matters’ Matt Gertz describes how the Trump administration’s war on the press is heating up. 
• MAGA media is following Trump’s lead in blaming the economic contraction on former President Joe Biden. 
• Fox News anchor Dana Perino claimed Trump has “great majority support” on immigration and deportations. Fox’s own polling, however, shows Trump underwater.
• Media Matters President Angelo Carusone described how Project 2025 laid the groundwork for Trump to install right-wing media loyalists into “senior level positions.”