• A Newsmax guest said bike lines are “communist garbage.” 
• Fox’s Sean Hannity said Trump’s tariffs have “worked out better than I would have anticipated.”
• Hannity also attacked the new Pope Leo XIV for believing there’s nothing Christian about warehousing immigrant children in cages.

• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “There’s been a war on whiteness for a long time in this country.” 
• Fox host Brian Kilmeade said current Medicaid levels are "unaffordable, unsustainable.”

• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk: “Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda.” 
• Newsmax’s Rick Santorum criticized Pope Leo XIV for using “buzzwords of the left.” 
• Podcaster Benny Johnson claimed Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo were “colluding with the deep state to destroy” Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo: “I don’t know why everybody is afraid of raising the retirement age.”

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is so unhinged that the network took her show off the air following the 2020 election out of (subsequently confirmed) fear that she’d use it to launder deranged conspiracy theories about the results. But she’s a fanatical supporter of President Donald Trump, and that is apparently enough to get her tapped as the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C.

Read more here from Matt Gertz about Pirro stood out among the network’s stable of shills and propagandists for providing what our late colleague Simon Maloy deemed “advocacy for the president [that] is so aggressive that it often borders on insane."

You can also read more here about the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump administration.

During the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, popular online shows that self-identify as nonpolitical but have a right-leaning ideological bent have repeatedly discussed key figures, policies, and events of his administration. During these discussions, hosts mostly endorsed the Trump administration’s policies or narratives, with some offering limiting criticism. 

Recently we told you about a Media Matters study which found that most popular online shows are overwhelming right-leaning. In subsequent studies, we have found that this ecosystem of right-leaning shows, including the supposedly nonpolitical shows, has repeatedly pushed pro-Trump messaging or right-wing misinformation/narratives. And while some have criticized Trump’s unpopular tariff policy, the ecosystem still overwhelmingly supports him.

• Media Matters’ Abbie Richards has this great video on how billionaires created the DEI panic. 
• Corporate broadcast networks devoted nearly 2.5 hours of airtime to Earth Day and Earth Month coverage in 2025. Much of it failed to meet the moment. 
• While pollution from the Tijuana River is a complex and decades-old issue, Fox News is simply blaming Mexico.