Fox News broadcast an exclusive interview with soon-to-be first lady Melania Trump yesterday, but someone in their graphics department failed to get the memo about what Mrs. Trump’s title will be as of January 20.
During the interview, a chyron appeared on the screen which read, “Melania opens up about becoming second lady again.”
Actually, the title of second lady will be held by Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.
The error set off a torrent of mockery on social media.
According to some of the on-air employees who work at the bullshit factory that has the nerve to call itself Fox “News,” there was no reason for President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, because President-elect Donald Trump would have gladly done the same when he takes office in January of next year.
During a discussion this morning of the full pardon issued by President Biden on Sunday evening, Fox host Lawerence Jones remarked, “You know, as I think the fear may have been misplaced, though, I think that the Democrats, including the president, Joe Biden, thought that Donald Trump would treat them like they treated him with political prosecution. I think they’re wrong. I think Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden.”
“I think we would have gotten some type of report about the corruption and what’s been happening in Department of Justice,” he continued. “I think he’s going to clean house when it comes to the FBI and Department of Justice, but I don’t think he would have went after Hunter Biden.”
Co-host Steve Doocy agreed that Trump “probably would have gone ahead and pardoned him.”
“The only difference is if Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden, you know, in 50-some-odd days, is it wouldn’t be for that 10 year period,” Doocy continued. “It would just be for those two things that he’s been convicted but not sentenced to a good point.”
What a load of shit! Donald Trump’s own reaction to the pardon of Hunter Biden directly undercut what Jones and Doocy claimed.
On social media, Trump wrote, “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”
As Steve Benen of MSNBC notes, “Trump’s list of scandalous pardon abuses is so long, it could be a lengthy book. The names should be familiar: Paul Manafort. Michael Flynn. Steve Bannon. Roger Stone. Seven different Republican members of Congress who were locked up for corruption crimes.”
“Trump saw presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends and associates, engaging in the kind of brazen corruption that would’ve defined his term were it not eclipsed by other breathtaking scandals.”
Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden? That’s not the least bit plausible. Trump only helps those who can help him. He’s a selfish bastard who, unlike Hunter Biden, deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
A Fox News audience composed of pro-Trump supporters laughed during a Wednesday town hall that was billed as focusing on women’s issues when the disgraced ex-president cracked a tasteless joke about a pregnant Georgia woman who died as the result of being unable to get medical care after taking medication to terminate her pregnancy.
The woman, Amber Thurman, ProPublica reported in September, “suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.”
She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.
But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.
Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.
The host of the town hall was Harris Faulkner, and she told Trump as the event began, “I want to share with you Senators Warnock and Ossoff, [former] Atlanta Mayor [Keisha] Bottoms, and Amber Thurman’s family have come out on a press call. And they’re doing what’s called a prebuttal to our town hall right now.”
His voice dripping with sarcasm, Trump said, “Oh, that’s nice.”
“Yeah,” Faulkner replied.
“You’ll get better ratings, I promise,” Trump added as Faulkner grinned.
Some in the audience began applauding and laughing. Others yelled, “Woooo!”
Trump’s flippant comment and the reaction from women in the audience set off a torrent of criticism on Twitter.
Just a few hours after losing Tuesday evening’s debate to Vice President Kamala Harris, failed ex-president Donald Trump called into Fox News and immediately began attacking the conservative network for daring to suggest that he had performed badly.
On “Fox & Friends,” Trump was asked if he would be open to the idea of a second debate which would be hosted by Fox.
“I wouldn’t want to have Martha and Brad,” Trump insisted, referring to Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier.
“I’d love to have somebody else other than Martha and Brad,” Trump reiterated, suggesting Fox’s Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Laura Ingraham would meet with his approval.
Trump’s whining drew plenty of comments on social media.
According to Fox News host Sean Hannity, if supporters of failed former president Donald Trump are unhappy with the ABC News moderators at tonight’s presidential debate, “half the country” will engage in a boycott of ABC’s parent company, Disney, and their theme parks.
Media Matters for America reports that Hannity made his remarks Monday evening on his show, telling viewers, “Just 24 hours right now, the one and only scheduled presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will take place. You can watch it right here on Fox News Channel. But unfortunately, it is being moderated by ABC-Disney. Barring some kind of political miracle, this debate will not be fair. ABC-Disney is officially a woke, left-wing organization.”
Disney is woke and left-wing? So does that mean Mickey Mouse is a communist and Goofy is Vladimir Lenin in disguise?
That wasn’t all Hannity had to say. And the more he talked, the more absurd he got.
“Maybe Bob Iger and his left-wing heir apparent, maybe they don’t want half the country to attend their theme parks, maybe they don’t care about their tanking stock price, which is their prerogative. They’re free to make that choice, but if they are biased against Donald Trump, as they have been leading into tomorrow night, as their nightly newscast is, half the country is not going to like it one bit. They are not going to like ABC-Disney one bit either.”
Here’s the video:
Do you get the feeling that Fox is worried Trump will self-immolate on national television this evening? If he does, the only person to blame will be him. And it’s safe to assume that the Disney theme parks will be fine. After all, Walt Disney was a capitalist and the company loves turning a profit.