Matthew Gertz

Fox’s comically pathetic spin for a foreign government gifting Trump a $400 million plane

Jeanine Pirro’s Fox producer thought she was “nuts.” Trump just named her DC’s top prosecutor.

President Donald Trump is ramping up his assault on the press, opening new avenues for federal retribution against outlets which displease him as his administration prepares to mark 100 days in office. Trump has long railed against journalists as the “enemy of the people,” used the power of the state as a cudgel against the industry in his first term, and promised more of the same in his second. His return to office brought what Columbia Journalism Review’s Jon Allsop described as a “sharp, often contemptuous rupture” between the federal government and the press, with the White House seeking over the last few months to dominate reporters, place new restrictions on critical outlets, and lift up right-wing propagandists in their place. The president’s threats against news outlets have been so extreme for so many years that by contrast, such moves struck some observers as “small beer” or “trivial nonsense.” But Trump’s talk is cheap until it isn’t — at any time, on a whim, he or

Fox stars pass on defending Hegseth amid Pentagon “chaos”

“Art of the Deal”: Fox propagandists spin wildly for Trump’s “huge” tariff “win”

In their quest to undermine the scandal about key Trump administration national security officials discussing detailed military attack plans on a commercial messaging app, President Donald Trump and his media propagandists repeatedly claimed that the uproar was a minor sideshow that paled in comparison to the fact that the mission had been a resounding military victory.“The mission in Yemen was operationally a complete success,” Fox News host and sometime Trump adviser Sean Hannity proclaimed on his show. “Why focus on the successful military operation when you can trash Donald Trump and people that work for him?”But that defense of the administration has withered under scrutiny in the intervening weeks. Any tactical victory achieved during the initial March 15 attack has not fulfilled the intended U.S. goal of curbing Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a major international trade route.When The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat

CBS News reporting on immigrants deported to foreign megaprison blows up Fox’s “worst of the worst” spin

Right-wing pundits are apparently cashing in on the ivermectin craze they helped create

Right-wing pundits are apparently cashing in on the ivermectin craze they helped create

President Donald Trump’s propaganda outlets are struggling to articulate a clear message as his sclerotic rollout of tariffs trigger widespread economic turbulence. U.S. stock markets tumbled on Monday after Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that he could not rule out the possibility of a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both suffered their worst day of the year, losing more than 2%, while the NASDAQ Composite fell 4%, its worst day since September 2022.“The rout extended a miserable month for markets that has seen all three major indexes wipe out their gains since the US presidential election in November,” CNN reported. “The widespread selloff was mostly driven by anxiety about the impact of Trump’s tariffs.”Here’s how the MAGA stalwarts on Fox News and Newsmax responded on Monday night.