Hannity’s unwavering admiration for the president remained on full display Monday night during his exclusive, taped interview with Trump from Helsinki.Īfter a classic opening in which Hannity derided Russian meddling in the U.S. “I’m watching all of these Republicans and I’m thinking none of them, NONE OF THEM, have the ability to lead anything,” Hannity said. On his radio show, Hannity railed against conservative critics of Trump. Only Sean Hannity, an unabashed friend and late-night confidant of Trump, played to form Monday on Fox. Shine resigned from Fox after allegedly covering up sexual-harassment scandals at the network.
Trump has consistently hired cable personalities for his administration, the latest being the addition of former Fox co-president Bill Shine as his communications director. The president rarely does non-Fox interviews, though administration officials regularly appear across networks. Trump, ever obsessed with cable TV, has consistently favored Fox over its rivals. “Liberal commentators denouncing him as Neville Chamberlain, calling for censure & impeachment, also going over the top against Trump.” “It's troubling that Trump wouldn’t embrace his own intel agencies’ findings on Russian meddling against the ‘strong & powerful’ Putin denials,” Kurtz tweeted. Some played the both-sides argument, such as the Media Buzz host Howard Kurtz. Critics have alleged that Fox’s pro-Trump bias has undermined the network’s credibility during this administration.Īnd there was some run-of-the-mill Trump defense from Fox personalities. “I just found that Vladimir Putin appeared to run circles around the president and get him to buy … every single sneaky lie and misstatement he has made on this matter.”įox News, known for the conservative bent of its opinion hosts, has been particularly friendly to the Trump administration. “I don’t think you get a second chance to make a good first impression at a stage and venue like this,” Cavuto added. She tweeted that it was a “ horrible performance” and “ unpatriotic.” The retired Army General Jack Keane, a Fox national-security analyst, told Regan it was “stunning and disappointing.” “He should have defended his own intelligence community.” “He should have defended us,” Regan said. Trish Regan, Cavuto’s co-host, appeared flustered, similar to Anderson Cooper’s appearance. The host Neil Cavuto called Trump’s press conference “disgusting.” Over on the Fox Business Network, the pundits might as well have been working for MSNBC. Most of the personalities on air seemed bewildered, such as the host Bret Baier, who called the performance “surreal.” On air, things were much more even-keeled, but they were still far from Fox’s standard laudatory fare. ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, tweeted, “No negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus.” * The Fox & Friends Weekend host Abby Huntsman, who is the daughter of the U.S. Republicans-even the DNI are throwing bucketsful at him,” tweeted Fox’s chief White House correspondent John Roberts. “There is an avalanche of you-know-what rolling downhill at warp speed toward over this summit.
“Trump is unable to see past himself,” tweeted Brit Hume, a senior political analyst on the network. Then, after the press conference in Helsinki, the Fox gloves really started to come off on Twitter. “That is insulting to past administrations-he can’t be saying that going into the Russian summit.” “That’s by far the most ridiculous tweet of late,” Kilmeade said in response. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” The day started with Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade taking issue with Trump’s pre-meeting tweet, which read: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S.
The big surprise was going on over at Fox News, where the consternation and outrage were only slightly more restrained. John King called the event “ the surrender summit.” Dana Bash said journalists “asked the questions of Vladimir Putin that the president of the United States failed to do.”Īll par for the course from CNN. On CNN, Anderson Cooper called Trump’s performance “ disgraceful.” Cooper’s face was noticeably cringing and his voice was shaking. When Donald Trump stood side by side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and announced that he was taking Putin’s word over that of his own intelligence community, talking heads spun on cable news.
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