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Last Thursday – the day after Donald Trump announced prices that torn a century from American economic policy – the best story on the Fox News website concerned a teenager who had been stabbed at a Texas High School track meeting.
Monday morning, as the actions fell, the Fox News The website directed the readers to a live video of Trump welcoming the Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball team at the White House to celebrate their World Series victory.
Hosts in the Talking Daytime show by Fox News Inferiority Monday discussed the priceArguing that Americans should be patient and trust Trump's strategy.
“This is a standard of the market when we adapt to an economy centered on the United States that we deserve,” said host Emily Compano because a stock of stock on the screen has shown that the industrial average of Dow Jones. “The impact for us will be positive if we give it a minute.” The hosts then went to discuss a Vancouver woman who was “seriously injured” after someone threw a rock on his Tesla car.
While Trump's prices shook the markets and raised the prospect of a global recession, some conservative experts have spoken out against the White House in recent days. Ben Shapiro of Daily Wire criticized Trump's prices as “probably unconstitutional” and “based on a bad idea”. The Wall Street Journal editorial committee warned that Trump “acts with little understanding of the damage that his prices will cause”.
However, opinion hosts on Fox News – the essential information source for conservative Americans – have largely seemed to minimize the fallout.
On one of the most popular Fox emissions, The fiveThe host Jeanine Pirro defended Trump's prices.
“I don't really care about my 401k today,” Pirro told viewers on Thursday. “You know why? Not that I can afford, not that it is not important, not that I am not at a time of my life when I should worry about my 401K because I am. But that's what I think. I think in this man.”
The host Sean Hannity also defended the strategy. “We are not a charitable organization for the rest of the world … They have taken advantage of us,” he said. “Now we play to win.”
Bret Baier, the chief political anchor of the network, offered a more nuanced summary on his Monday evening television news. Describing a “roller coaster mountains today at Wall Street”, Baier told viewers: “Even certain Republicans in the Congress express concerns about the president's rates. Others call for calm. “
Fox News said the examples were “cherries chosen over five days of coverage”.
“Fox News covers questions with different perspectives from other networks, which is why our notes are at historically high levels and why more independents and democrats are looking at that our competitors,” he said.
Host Maria Bartiromo Monday morning said that she expected the prices “hit the main street”. The anchor of Fox News, Steve DOOCY, questioned the stock bust routing on Thursday. Friday, Fox News published a opinion By the Kentucky senator, Rand Paul, arguing that the prices “do not punish foreign countries; They punish American families ”.
The public of Fox News soared as the viewers flocked to his channel to follow the frantic start of Trump's second presidency. More than 3 million people watched the broadcaster during the hours at 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the first three months of 2025, up almost 50% compared to the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen Data.
Fox Corp Director General Lachlan Murdoch last month told investors that the US elections “validated Fox News position”.
“If you look at the Fox News spectator, they are incredibly loyal. They are passionate about service. They really consider it not only as a news service, but as a network for them,” he said at a conference by Morgan Stanley. “We consider ourselves a network of common sense … The elections and elections of the elections have somehow validated the position of Fox News”.
The Murdoch family has Fox and News Corp, which houses the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Trump Monday published a series of screenshots and links At Fox News and Newsmax Segments renting its prices.
While the stock market made losses on Monday afternoon, Fox News alerted its positive swing viewers. Steve Moore, a former Trump advisor, spoke of the network this afternoon: “It's a very risky strategy, but I think it will work.”
The chain then broadcast an interview with a cattle breeder from Illinois, Steve Lucie, who hoped for the prices.
Lucie, described as a fifth generation cattle breeder, compared the stock market to her horse. “He fled and he will roll in dirt and move away from me … But as soon as you hold a bucket of oat, he runs immediately.
“We have to face a little pain to have a certain gain,” he said.
