A thread 🧵about how Fox News and PBS covered the Trump's chaotic tariff policies last week.
Monday
Fox - The U.S. will NOT back down. Tariffs will replace income tax. Don't look at your accounts! Robot factories!
PBS - Unstable markets, erratic planning, mixed messages. 1/5 Tuesday
Fox - Don't be a Panican! Trump is making up words. Nervous laughter. Trump is Clint Eastwood. We've lost $12 trillion. Trump knows where the short hairs are.

PBS - The market was down. Musk attacked Peter Navarro on X. Trump won't back down. 2/5

A short thread 🧵about how Fox covered Trump's tariff's last week. There was some doubt and fear about what it might do to the economy especially on Fox & Friends. The odds a recession at 35%, American consumers will pay the tariffs, it's a bad time to retire. 1/5 2/5 on Wednesday - Jesse Watters kept weaving World War 2 🤔 Everyone takes advantage of us. Free trade destroyed your life. We can't afford NOT to have tariffs. The stock market can't get a handle on this. Wall Street will be fine. D-day and the Dow? 🤔

A thread 🧵about how Fox News covered the Signal chat security scandal. Day 1 - The Five. During a discussion about how Democrats were horrible Jessica Tarlov managed to talk about it. Producers dedicated 0% of the episode to the story. 1/11 2/11 - Day One - Monday Special Report with Bret Baier (John Roberts hosts) The program treated it like a minor story. It was embarrassing. How did this happen? Oops of the highest magnitude. Brit Hume was not impressed. Producers dedicated 8% of airtime for the story.

A thread 🧵about how Fox News covered Pres. Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. On Fox & Friends they were concerned what Democrats might do. Hand clappers! Egg cartons! On The Five they predicted the deal with Ukraine would be confirmed during the speech. 1/10 2/10 on Special Report with Bret Baier - Tariffs cause "temporary" pain. The stock market is sinking. The deal with Ukraine could get solved during the speech. Does Trump have a master plan? How long will the speech be? Don't rip up any documents!

A thread 🧵on how Fox News covered Trump’s disastrous attempt at a mineral/peace deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Before the Oval Office meeting Fox News hosts bragged that Trump has ended the Ukraine War three weeks into his presidency. 1/10 The Oval Office visit. Zelenskyy explains that Putin has broken promises and ceasefires 25 times since 2014, Europe has been generous with their support for Ukraine, a reporter asks him why he doesn't wear a suit, Zelenskyy reminds Trump that Putin invaded Ukraine. 2/10

A thread 🧵How Fox News covered the Vice Presidential debate from Ingraham to Fox News at Night. Laura Ingraham - the moderators won’t be fair! Tim Walz is an extremist! J.D. Vance will be pummeled with questions about “Haitian food choices” 1/8 Jesse Watters was obsessed with masculinity - a debate between two men for men, Tim Walz is not manly enough. J.D. Vance shouldn’t argue with women - it’s tricky. Kayleigh McEnany - Tim Walz aides think he’s a moron! 2/8

A Thread 🧵The First Presidential Debate between Harris and Trump. Fox News hosts had high hopes - It was a big night. If Trump could only stay calm, not get rattled, things should go well for him. The sugar high for Harris is over. She will have to attack. 1/8 The debate - one memorable moment - Vice President Kamala Harris encourages Americans to go to Trump rallies to watch supporters leave early. Trump is enraged. It’s one of many instances when she got under his skin. 2/8

A thread 🧵of Fox News from The Five - Hannity on the night Trump was found guilty on 34 counts. The first half of The Five was dedicated to legal experts and lawyers discussing the case. Judge Jeanine called Stormy Daniels a hooker. Jonathan Turley said Trump was calm. 1/7 The Five part 2 - the producers cut back to the studio. Greg Gutfeld talked about Popeye on meth, Watters Trump is a Greek tragedy. He will vanquish his enemies. Hunter Biden gets brought up. 🤔Perino plugs Trump’s fundraising site. 2/7

A thread 🧵 how Fox News covered the South Carolina primary in 7 tweets. Let’s take a look at the big board - Trump performed well with non-college aged rural voters, Trump is too extreme, Nikki Haley voters won’t vote for him, Haley has stronger mental acuity 1/7 Former SC Rep Trey Gowdy thinks Haley is just waiting for Trump’s campaign to collapse. Jessica Tarlov points out that Nikki Haley’s voters won’t vote for Trump. The pile up on Haley has just begun. 2/7

A thread 🧵about how Fox News covered the border/immigration bill compared to how PBS NewsHour covered the same legislation. From the start Fox turned into some kind of joke. Jesse Watters implied it wasn’t bipartisan - it was. He also framed it as a trap for Republicans 1/4 Watters continues to imply the bill was written by Democrats. It was written by a Dem, a Republican and Independent. He also mislead his viewers about what the bill contained. PBS just laid it out with specifics. 2/4

When people tell me PBS has a left wing bias I laugh because I keep a spreadsheet of every single guests and keep track of how long each guest appears on the program. This is the breakdown of Fox News vs. PBS for elected official guests by party affiliation for 2023. Also this is for anyone who claims Fox News has Democratic politicians on their network. If 6% is considered a lot then I guess so.

A 🧵thread about how Fox News got a story about a car accident horribly wrong. Alexis McAdams claimed high level police sources said the explosion at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls was a terrorist attack. Her co-workers immediately assumed it was related to Israel-Gaza 1/6 Vivek Ramaswamy was scheduled for an interview when the breaking news happened. He claimed the government was lying. Alexis McAdams continued to get the story wrong. There were no explosives or bomb. Frances Townsend assumed it might be a Jihadist attack 2/6

A thread 🧵an off year election night on ‘Hannity.’ Things look a bit gloomy early on as Hannity predicted big wins but Kayleigh McEnany was more cautious and Reince Priebus was resigned to whatever transpired. Abortion was the topic of the night 1/6 Charlie Hurt brought up blatant lies about late-term abortion and infanticide. Absolutely no one in the Democratic Party is advocating for infanticide which is illegal in every state. Late-term abortions are extremely rare and performed for medical reasons 2/6

A 🧵thread of 12 hours of Fox News reduced to 9 Tweets. Monday night - Trump is indicted in Georgia. The evening starts with Jesse Watters primetime hosted by Pete Hegseth. The freakout begins. The term “lawfare” is born. 1/9 Hannity gives Gutfeld! the boot as the Fox hosts goes for two hours with no commercials as he waits for news of the indictment. Guests are recycled. Voting machines, phone calls, if they come for Trump they will come for YOU! 2/9

A thread 🧵- Fox News the night of Donald J. Trump’s third indictment from The Five to The Ingraham Angle. Five hours in seven tweets. Starting with The Five the news came down mid-show. Panic ensures. Jesse Watters screamed a lot. 1/7 Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on The Five, managed to get in several great points - Steve Bannon was caught on tape admitting the plot, several witnesses testified Trump knew he lost the election, most Americans think he committed crimes. 2/7

A thread 🧵of the entire evening of primetime Fox News the night of the 2nd indictment of Donald J. Trump. Jesse Watters had to abruptly pivot half way through his show. The panic was instant. Hillary Clinton was brought up immediately. It was about everyone but Trump 1/5 On Fox News Tonight - you’d think the case was about Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s sock drawer. Stephen Miller had a meltdown. Pastor Jeffress vowed support of evangelicals 2/5

Laura Ingraham openly mocked the toxic air in the Northeastern United States which is currently putting 75 million people at risk. She also laughed at the suggestion that Latino and Black children have higher rates of asthma. THEY DO have higher rates of asthma, that's not new. The reason Black and Latino children have higher rates of asthma is that many of them live in areas where they are exposed to air pollution at a young age. There are clusters in NYC where asthma rates are higher that are near bus depots - Harlem, N. Manhattan, The Bronx

A 🧵thread. I captured every show on Fox last night starting with The Five thru The Ingraham Angle. This is a condensed edit of the entire evening. On The Five Jesse Watters dominated the discussion after the cast found out live that Trump was indicted 1/8 On Special Report with Bret Baier the tone was much more subdued as it’s considered a legit news program. Jonathan Turley said Trump could pardon himself, Baier read Trump’s statements on air. 2/8

A 🧵thread. I went through every episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight and edited out ALL of the footage he claimed was evidence of some alternative narrative. It was about 10 min. 45 secs. total. This first video focuses on Jacob Cansley the QAnon Shaman 1/6 This video focuses on Chansley. Carlson shows him entering the building but when he showed the clip he didn’t mention to his viewers that Chansley is in the shot. All told there was about 3 and a half min. total of Chansley. You can also see that he’s holding a spear 2/6

A 🧵thread about how Fox News took the DOE “low confidence” theory that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab to promote misinformation about the disease. 1. Natural immunity - Fox seems to forget how randomly the disease killed people. 1/5 2. Masks - Somehow the origin of COVID meant that masks don’t work according to Fox. Dr. Marty Makary cites the Cochran Studies which some researchers have criticized. I provide several medical organizations that promote mask wearing. 2/5

A 🧵thread on how Fox covered the SOTU in 5 tweets. Border, crime, China and Balloons were the main focus. At one point Martha MacCallum wondered outloud why Biden wasn’t more like GW Bush - a president not known for brilliant foreign policy 1/5 Fox also talked a lot about spending, mentioning several popular programs Biden wants to pass. Larry Kudlow mentions tax rates but leaves out how the top 1% own 1/3 of the wealth while the bottom 50% own 2% of the wealth 2/5