Decoding Fox News

Fox News continues to stumble and bluff its way through an incoherent sales pitch for Trump’s poorly planned war with Iran. Sean Hannity along with some of the last remaining neocons also promoted the worst idea in the world - sending weapons to the Iranian people. It was 1979 again in the absolute worst way possible. Normally the network forms a united front about any given topic, narrows in on i...

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Fox News started last week dutifully hyping up Trump’s proposed White House ballroom. On Monday on every show, I covered Trump’s favorite vanity project was championed as a life saving measure that would protect the president and top-ranking cabinet officials from the bullets of a would be assassin. By Tuesday the network had moved on. Fox News executives are known for obsessively tracking audienc...

At this point in the second Trump administration Fox News has become the parent of a spoiled child sitting in the principal’s office of an expensive private school insisting their kid did absolutely nothing wrong. The defiant parent stares back in scorn at an underpaid and overworked school administrator explaining. while sipping instant Maxwell House from a Styrofoam cup, how little Donny set fir...

Since President Trump decided to attack Iran Fox News has become a buffoonish propagandist for a half-baked military fiasco. Instead of acknowledging that the president is not a trustworthy source of information the network repeats his delusions as if they were Gospel truths. As Trump manipulates the financial markets and lies about phantom agreements with the Iranian regime Fox News folds and twi...

Last week Fox News returned to its schizophrenic confused coverage of the war in Iran. In the mornings on Fox & Friends the conflict was depicted as a chaotic mess between a stubborn Iranian regime that refused to give an inch and Trump the misunderstood magical deal maker. The morning crew promised its viewers that although the war was a fiasco military success and lower gas prices were just roun...

Last week when Fox viewers turned on their favorite propaganda machine, they entered a magical world of delusion where Trump was still incredibly popular, the war in Iran was going smoothly and things looked rosy for Republicans in the midterm elections. The network downplayed the massive ‘No Kings’ protests that were organized all over the country reducing the demonstrations to a bunch of old peo...

Last week Fox News decided everything was more important than the war between Israel, the United States and Iran. Although the conflict was still the top topic for the week most of the segments dedicated to it included retired military leaders pontificating on possible next moves for the commander-in-chief. While the PBS News Hour showed massive damage to residential buildings and energy infrastru...

Much like the seams in any suit jacket worn by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Fox News is barely keeping it together. The network still can’t get its message straight regarding Trump’s disastrous war in Iran. Fox is following the lead of its glorious leader, a man who appeared to act impulsively, when he decided to attack a country of 92 million people with one of the largest militaries in...

Fox News twisted itself into knots to convince its audience that a misguided and poorly planned war in the Middle East was a brilliant idea after its glorious leader promised - no new wars. To accomplish the impossible the network’s hosts weaved intricate tapestries of lies filled with invented histories of domestic oil production, gas prices, Trump’s previous attacks on Iran, fairy tales of enric...

Last week on Fox overpaid television personalities tried to fake their way through a war they didn’t understand. As the president changed the reasons he started the military conflict with Iran the folks at Fox struggled to forge a coherent message about it. The propaganda machine sputtered and stumbled. The network kept repeating Trump’s mixed messages: * The war was already over/The war will be o...

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Last week Fox News tried to do three things - venerate the president, trash Democrats and convince its viewers that the Epstein files were somehow all about the network’s favorite arch nemesis Hillary Clinton. By the end of the week Fox got slammed by a news story it couldn’t ignore - the U.S. military attack on Iran. Before Donald J. Trump made the wildly risky move to attack Iran he had hit a bi...

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Fox News hosts generally seemed a bit panicked about how Trump would handle the speech. After Trump was finished Laura Ingraham praised him at length while Sean Hannity focused on trashing Democrats. The tone on the network was less than confident. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subs...

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Trump’s mountain of broken promises, radical foreign policy decisions and unorthodox economic policies are causing deep damage to his MAGA brand. Last week the Supreme Court, with three Trump appointees, ruled against Trump’s use of IEEPA to issue tariffs. The court’s ruling was only one of many failures for Trump last week as newly revised jobs data showed...

An overview of how Fox News covered the SCOTUS ruling for Trump’s tariff policies from Friday February 20, 2026 from The Will Cain Show at 4PM to Hannity at 10PM. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe

Last week on Fox News Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and other overpaid Fox News personalities proved there is no limit to the depravity and hypocrisy on the Murdoch owned media empire. The network seemed desperate to focus on the Nancy Guthrie abduction rather than talk about anything that might make its glorious leader, an increasingly demented cruel sociopath, look bad. Gutfeld made dismissive jok...

Last week Fox News was desperate to talk about anything, but the latest scandals unearthed in the Epstein files, Trump’s falling poll numbers, Democratic wins in deeply red districts, and the president’s virulently racist social media post that depicted former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The network dedicated most of its airtime to the alleged abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the...

As Fox News featured footage of jackbooted masked federal agents terrorizing a Northern Midwestern city the network told its viewers to ignore any reports that showed Americans were unhappy with Trump’s mass deportation efforts. The soccer moms and angel faced five-year-olds fleeing clouds of tear gas in quaint tree-lined residential streets were covert socialist sleeper cells financed by the Chin...

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As Donald J. Trump damaged decades-long international relationships in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum, Fox News lauded him as a champion of American strength on the global stage. Trump managed to insult all the former Allied powers in World War II multiple times then also disgraced the sacrifice of hundreds of fallen non-U.S. NATO soldiers who died in Afghanistan after the terroris...

This podcast covers four hours of Fox & Friends Sunday through Hannity on Monday 1/26/26. The network desperately tried to make this look like a huge win for Trump. Fox News hosts did not know how to handle demonizing a man who was shot for carrying a legal firearm. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews...

Last week while the streets of Minneapolis filled with angry protesters choking on clouds of tear gas and images of ICE agents terrorizing people flooded social media feeds Fox News set its sights on the real danger - radicalized left-wing women. According to the network suburban soccer moms and urban childless cat ladies were pawns for a sophisticated Democratic Party domestic terrorist plot. Nai...

Last Wednesday a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good, was shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video captured by a bystander of the incident immediately went viral along with footage taken from other angles. Fox News reacted immediately by blaming Democratic lawmakers and the woman herself. The Trump administration also promptly blamed Good an...