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Megyn Kelly: Trump's promise of no more Middle East wars was "really fundamental to why many of us voted for him"

Benny Johnson attacks SNAP program: "40% of the groceries are free to the parasitic class"

Tucker Carlson on Sean Hannity: “It does take a kind of cable news mentality to say of the pope, hey, you ever read the Bible? It's hilarious.”

Tucker Carlson accuses Patrick Bet-David of "slander" against Catholicism

Tucker Carlson on Donald Trump: “Could this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?”

Fox host Brian Kilmeade: "You know you got a guy on the right like Nick Fuentes, a raging racist who people on the right should run from. Other people choose to interview him."

Newsmax host says he is "shocked" by Trump's efforts to renew FISA: "I'm not willing to see this renewed"

Greg Gutfeld gloats that Trump won't be removed from office if he’s found to be mentally incapacitated

Right-wing radio host on Trump sharing image of himself as Jesus: “Older people, they do struggle with some aspects of social media”

Sean Hannity on the pope: “I find his moral clarity, his compass to be way off”

Megyn Kelly: American people want Trump to focus on affordability, inflation, and health care, "but he's doing something that's going to worsen all of those problems"

Megyn Kelly criticizes Pete Hegseth: "While you're updating us on the number you've killed, which necessarily has included some civilians, don't mention Jesus, don't talk about God, don't act like he's sanctioning what you're doing"

Right-wing media accuse Trump of “blasphemy” over a post that appeared to depict Trump as Jesus

Right-wing, right-leaning, and conservative Christian commentators denounced a Truth Social post by President Donald Trump that depicts him as a Jesus-like figure, calling it…

Laura Loomer calls Secretary Kennedy and his staff "liberals and Democrats" who "refuse to fire all the holdovers" at HHS

Newsmax host speaks directly to Trump about removed Jesus Truth Social post: "I just want the president to know, like, I don't care about this"

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Trump's since-removed Jesus post: "It's not blasphemous. If it were blasphemous, I wouldn't be showing it."

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Trump's first impeachment: "Anybody who touched this case from the opposing side should be arrested, tried, and jailed"

Jesse Watters says Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate because "the Blacks were burning things down"

Dozens of Project 2025 proposals appear to be included in the Trump administration's newest budget

The proposed 2027 budget released by the Office of Management and Budget is filled with ideas that appear to be copied and pasted from Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership . Russ…

Even some in right-wing media are now asking questions about Trump's age and mental acuity

Candace Owens: "Trump is very clearly under demonic influence"

Fox Business host on high gas prices: "I think this will be a flash cost spike that was worth it, because we're going to get something I call the peace dividend"

Tim Pool on Trump posting and deleting image of himself as Jesus: "Maybe it's just an old man with an ego. But Donald Trump — I think this one for me kind of crosses the line."

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo on Donald Trump: "This was a sloppy and frankly disrespectful attack on the Pope"

Sean Hannity says Donald Trump is "right in challenging what this pope is suggesting"; "I don't blame the president for fighting back"

Megyn Kelly: "Other than Fox News boomers, there's no one left. There's no one left in the original MAGA coalition."

Daily Wire host: Trump post that appears to depict the president as Jesus is "sacrilegious"

Sean Hannity: "The president is weighing a plan to punish NATO allies. He should."

The Trumps turned Fox’s “Biden Crime Family” conspiracy theory into a business plan

“No Kings” rallies highlight how right-wing provocateurs generate content for right-wing media

Right-wing media have been using video content from right-wing content creators, many of whom describe themselves as “independent journalists,” to attack the March 28 “No Kings”…

“Heretic”: After Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain likens Trump to Jesus during Easter, right-wing media figures lash out

Right-wing media figures are lashing out at President Donald Trump’s personal spiritual adviser and senior adviser to the White House Faith Office Paula White-Cain for likening…

Megyn Kelly: "I actually believe that Mark Levin would like to have me killed"

Responding to a comment about a family member marrying a Jewish person, Fuentes says, “Unironically, you have to sabotage the marriage. … By any means -- I’m not even joking, you just have to.”

Fox News host tries to combat Trump's "TACO" trait by creating acronym of his own

How fractured right-wing media are spinning Trump's Iran capitulation

Right-wing media are split on the temporary two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, with some calling it “victory” and crediting Trump’s “hyperbolic rhetoric,”…

Turning Point USA spokesman on Iran: "It looks like we're sort of ignoring the strait for the time being"

Megyn Kelly: Trump was "bamboozled" into striking Iran

Brian Kilmeade on Iran ceasefire talks: "We can't leave this conflict with the uranium in the ground and the strait in Iran's hands"

Newsmax host: "There's an argument to be made, and I think it is a point to be made, that the ceasefire has given Iran a much needed break, time to come up for air in the middle of all this"

Nick Fuentes says that the US has “lost decisively” and “did not achieve any” of its military objectives in Iran

Megyn Kelly on US-Iran ceasefire: “I'm not willing to pretend that this is some huge victory for us”

Laura Loomer criticizes ceasefire deal with Iran: “Iran practically got everything that they wanted”

Steve Bannon: "I'm very opposed to this war"

Newsmax host on gender and aliens: "You never have seen an alien peeing standing up in a movie"

Sean Hannity questions the Pope’s knowledge of the Bible

Fox Business anchor: If you ignore the record increase in gasoline prices, March CPI release “was actually a pretty good inflation report”

Fox Business guests ridicule the network’s fantasy of 4-5% economic growth this year: “Dream on”

Benny Johnson: "Netanyahu should be banned from the White House as far as I'm concerned"

Laura Loomer takes credit for Trump's attacks on Tucker Carlson: "I'm the one who sent the president all your shit, Tucker"

"Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander: Trump "has got to be ripped politically, peacefully, legally, from the Oval Office"

From tariffs to war, Fox demands Americans sacrifice their well-being for Trump's agenda

A year since the announcement of President Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs and just over a month since he launched a war against Iran without congressional authorization , it’s…

Tim Pool on Trump's post attacking right-wing pundits: "I don't know that this post was necessary. What is to be gained by attacking these individuals?"

Alex Jones responds to Trump's attack on him: "I will now stand against this new Trump who by the day becomes more demonic, more twisted, and more sick"

Fox senior medical analyst says that part of the fertility rate "problem" in the country is fewer teen pregnancies

Piers Morgan on Trump's Iran threats: "That is genocide. That is a war crime."

As gas tops $4 a gallon nationwide, Fox hosts and guests scramble to downplay the impact of Trump’s Iran war while other right-wing media figures express growing alarm

CNN reporter: The March 2026 CPI report is "the worst inflation report in years"

Fox host asks if "we could build a canal through Oman" to avoid the Strait of Hormuz

Sean Hannity says “an easier way” in Iran for Donald Trump is to “blow up Kharg Island”

Fox promised oil and gas prices would quickly drop once US attacks on Iran ended. Analysts say prices will be elevated well into next year.

Analyses from consulting firms, economists, and at least one government agency are contradicting rosy promises by Fox News personalities that oil and gasoline prices would quickly…

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Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: How a fractured right-wing media is spinning Trump’s capitulation to Iran . Fox demands Americans sacrifice their…

Tim Pool suggests Trump may have "intentionally flubbed all of this" with Iran

Benny Johnson on US peace talks with Iran: "The peace negotiations failed, and that seemingly was the point"

On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone discusses infighting in MAGA media and how it's splitting the Republican Party

Mark Levin: In 1945, "we dropped two atomic bombs. Now, I'm not encouraging it. I'm asking about the law. Is that legal today under the war — law of the war or not?"

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Trump's attack on right-wing podcasters: "I don't actually think he believes this. He's just kind of trolling them a little bit."

Right-wing Christian media double down on supporting Trump's Iran war: “King David himself did this when he found himself dealing with a nation that was barbaric”

Some right-wing Christian media figures are continuing their support for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran even as some within the broader right-wing media ecosystem have…

Fox Business anchor on Trump's Iran war: "We are now the energy capital of the world. That has been a good thing that's come out of this."

Benny Johnson on the war with Iran: "We called the White House this morning. ... There's going to be a peace deal in the next 48 hours. That's what I was told from a very reliable source."

Retired Gen. Jack Keane is a major Fox News Iran war hawk. The network appears not to have disclosed that he sits on the board of two defense contractors.

Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane is a vocal supporter of the Iran war from his perch as a Fox News senior strategic analyst, regularly arguing that the United States and Israel should…

Former Trump BLS nominee EJ Antoni says the war in Iran "stands, unfortunately, to upend the president's economic agenda"

Newsmax host on the consequences of the Iran war: "Hold on just a little bit longer, folks. It sucks now, but it will get better."

Tim Dillon on the Iran war: “It's pretty clear to everybody who's honest that we've lost"

Newsmax host says "no tangible end is in sight" of the Iran war