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...Nowhere, however, is the silence louder than Trump’s polling. With six weeks to go to the midterm elections, perhaps the most salient fact in American politics right now is that Trump is broadly unpopular. Poll aggregators show the president’s job approval below 40%, at or just above all-time lows. Those figures, analysts warn, could prove cataclysmic for Republican candidates and incumbents.
But Fox consistently hides the president’s unpopularity from its viewers, with hosts talking up Trump’s performance and dodging signs of dissent. The network’s most recent poll, published Wednesday, Sept. 16, found the president with a 39% job approval to 61% disapproval. Fox did not mentioned that headline figure once through noon on Friday, however, even as the network covered other numbers from the survey.
These are just three areas where Fox has avoided delivering bad news to its audience — including the president. We at Media Matters have observed the network also giving short shrift to rising inflation and gas and diesel prices; health crises like the summer’s outbreaks of measles and cyclospora; reports that the Trump administration denied disaster requests and canceled energy grants to states because they had voted for Democrats; Republican scandals like Rep. Max Miller’s alleged domestic abuse and Texas candidate Bo French’s bigotry; and the reality that most immigrants targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have no criminal record.
In place of these news stories, the network increased its already frequent culture war programming. In August, Fox’s evening shows mentioned “socialism” 730 times, the WNBA 238 times and Dr. Anthony Fauci 193 times. On Monday alone, Fox covered an essay by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones in eight separate segments between the 7 a.m. hour and the 9 p.m. hour.
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- Each individual program had more “socialism” mentions than “Iran” mentions in August. Ingraham’s show had the most “socialism” references that month, with 203 against just 25 “Iran” references. Hannity, Jesse Watters Primetime, and The Five each had more than 100 “socialism” mentions and 50 or fewer “Iran” ones. On Gutfeld!, “socialism” was referenced 9 times more frequently than “Iran.”
- They’re all speaking from the same hymnal, as a sampling from their voluminous commentary shows.
- Watters warned in June that victories by two democratic socialists in Democratic congressional primaries in New York City were “dangerous,” saying of them: “You're coming for us. You're coming for our money, you're coming for our people, you're coming for our way of life. It's not socialism, guys. This is communism. You can't reason with these guys. You have to crush them. And we will.”
- “We're not going to let our civilization get destroyed,” he added. “These people are going to steal from us. These people want to hurt us.”
- Hannity said in July that the “extreme positions” of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, a self-described democratic socialist, were “the perfect illustration, representation of the socialist base, the radical communist base now, that is the Democratic Party.”
- (Hong subsequently lost the primary to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a “moderate Democrat.”)
- Discussing Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan and a self-described capitalist, Gutfeld claimed in August that “America is not going to become a socialist country, but the Democrat Party could become a socialist party,” adding: “I resent having to debate over ideologies that have not only failed, but killed millions.”
- “Every Democrat should be condemning this language and this movement, but they're not, because above all, they want to win and they're afraid of losing,” Ingraham added later that month. “So, for all you job creators, all you entrepreneurs out there, sorry, because if the DSA-ers tolerated by the Democrat Party have their way, it's confiscation time.”
- Trump’s symbiotic relationship with the network’s coverage has been on full display.
- Trump “has seized on ‘communism’ as his new favored line of attack against Democrats, having invoked the word more than 100 times since late June as he tries to rouse voters and preserve a narrow Republican congressional majority in the upcoming midterm elections,” NBC News reported on August 21.
- Speaking at Mount Rushmore on July 3, the president warned of “a resurgence of the communist menace in our land” and promised to “vanquish communists quickly” and “send them into exile.”
No war but the culture war — as Iran coverage fades, a new focus on WNBA, Fauci
- As the summer wore on, familiar culture war fixations joined fearmongering about socialism as major topics on Fox’s evening “opinion” shows.
- The WNBA suddenly became a regular topic of discussion across the network beginning in late June and continuing through the summer (with no end in sight).
- Much of the debate revolved around criticizing the league over issues pertaining to race and trans inclusion, with the network’s stars devoting significant airtime first to whether Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark received hard fouls because she is white, and eventually to a monthslong firestorm over the possibility of trans athletes in the WNBA, kicked up by comments made by the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham and subsequently accelerated by former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom’s antics (even though, as Wired noted, “no transgender women have ever played in the league”).
- The deluge of coverage led Watters to comment during a segment on The Five: “I don’t want to cover women’s basketball. … We have to do this again, really?”
- Meanwhile, the Fox hosts devoted significant time to relitigating the response to the COVID-19 pandemic after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released over 1,000 pages of entries from former public health official Anthony Fauci’s diary written from 2019 to 2022, and Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than giving testimony at a subsequent hearing before Paul’s committee.
- Hannity’s show, which played a key role in encouraging Trump to attack, mentioned “WNBA” nearly twice as frequently as it did “Iran” in August (93 to 50). Gutfeld! and The Ingraham Angle also had more “WNBA” mentions than “Iran” mentions. Gutfeld!, Jesse Watters Primetime, and The Ingraham Angle had more “Fauci” references than “Iran” mentions.
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Fox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summer
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Fox anchor questions network’s coverage of Enes Kanter’ Freedom's WNBA “publicity stunt”
08/25/26
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- Sean Davis asserts that "the WNBA is welfare for retarded black lesbians funded by the NBA."
- Joshua Haymes tells women that they were "not designed to 'follow their dreams,' & be 'fiercely independent'": "Do not pursue your dreams. Pursue God's will for your life."
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Patrick Bet-David: “The WNBA is more misogynistic and is more chauvinistic than Andrew Tate”
08/03/26