Media Matters for America

Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany: 60 Minutes losing its entire staff “may be a good thing”

Trump voter on C-Span criticizes him on economy and Social Security: “Everything that I thought he stood for and the people, he has backed his family and his pocketbook ahead of us”

Newsmax host on Trump's image being used on US currency: “Well, the UK does it with King Charles”

Fox Business host Larry Kudlow (once director of the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term) has repeatedly downplayed rising fuel costs and growing inflation as a “small price to pay” for Trump’s war with Iran. www.mediamatters.org/larry-kudlow...

Fox News argues that enforcement against negligent landlords is “public theft,” and a “throwback to Stalin” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Newsmax host: “E. Jean Carroll, you're never going see a lick of that money, and I think you're going see prison”

Greg Gutfeld on the federal detention center at Delaney Hall: “Maggots or not, the food is dietitian approved”

Even Fox anchor John Roberts was stunned by Trump's threat to blow up Oman: “Not quite sure what that was all about”

NY Post columnist on Mayor Zohran Mamdani targeting negligent landords: “Communist prescriptions” will lead to “bloodshed and mayhem and abject misery”

From farmers and truckers to first responders, small businesses, and even our schools, local news outlets have been spotlighting the impact of record high gas prices on the people and industries we rely on. www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

Newsmax host's message to Republican politicians who ever oppose Trump: “Stop being independent”

Dana Loesch tells Fox News viewers to travel to Los Angeles to vote for Spencer Pratt for mayor: "Dems the rules, right Jesse? So, why not make them live by them?"

Fox guest responds to college students worried about AI taking their jobs: “Get on board or get run over.”

Fox host Brian Kilmeade advocates for American troops to seize uranium from Iran: “The best chance for no casualties is you open up four different fronts immediately, simultaneously

Benny Johnson: “I would perfectly be happy to deport the entire city” of Atlanta... There is "a DEI district down here" for Democrats.

C-SPAN Republican caller: Donald Trump is “taking a 180-degree turn on his priorities from what he promised us... I don't see war and killing innocent children and people like that, bombings and stuff like that (as helping).”

Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “It does disappoint me” that Sean Duffy made a reality show; “I don't think this should be happening when you have a job in the cabinet.”

Fox News’ Marc Thiessen: Americans have to accept higher inflation and gas prices or “we’re not a superpower anymore”

Newsmax guest: Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) “should be hung for treason”

While local media cover the impacts of rising gas prices, Fox is minimizing Americans' pain at the pump ⬇️ www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

Greg Gutfeld tells his colleague that women can't work and have children, suggests “OnlyFans” for women looking for a job: “Maybe the job isn’t fulfilling because that’s not where your fulfillment is. It’s in being a mother.”

The lead-up to the end of Infowars was … tough to watch

Fox News' Martha MacCallum: “This district in Louisiana was carved out to create a Black district, which I think should be offensive to people”

Fox & Friends co-host: “I wish the talking point of that the strait was open before the conflict, people got to stop doing it. It was a beautiful day the morning of 9/11.”

“Enemy of the state”: Right-wing media are calling Democrats, journalists, and opponents of the Iran war “traitors” — in some cases explicitly demanding they be tried and put to death. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Jesse Watters: “You know what I always say — best way to not fire a woman? Not hire them.”

Right-wing media have been telling their audiences that Trump’s war in Iran will be over shortly for eight weeks now.

Greg Gutfeld: Virginia redistricting reveals “a suicidal flaw of democracy: that you can vote to end it"

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on the rapid growth of measles cases: “Chillax a little bit.”

Brian Kilmeade on Iran negotiations falling apart: “We're victims of our own success, killing so many leaders”

Greg Gutfeld says Tim Walz is guilty of “treason”: “If Walz goes abroad to bash Trump, he’s also bashing America... He is, in effect, a traitor”

www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on the Pope’s “left-wing agenda”: “...He wants to pretend that illegal migrant criminals are being unjustly treated in America? These are Democrat talking points.”

Tucker Carlson lashes out at and mocks former colleague Sean Hannity: “It does take a kind of cable news mentality to say of the pope, hey, you ever read the Bible? It's hilarious.”

Jesse Watters: Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate because “the Blacks were burning things down”

Candace Owens: “Trump is very clearly under demonic influence.”

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo on Donald Trump: “This was a sloppy and frankly disrespectful attack on the Pope”

Mark Levin on the legality of using atomic weapons: In 1945, “we dropped two atomic bombs. Now, I'm not encouraging it. I'm asking about the law. Is that legal today under the law of the war or not?”

Alex Jones responds to Trump's attack on him: “I will now stand against this new Trump who by the day becomes more demonic, more twisted, and more sick”

Newsmax host: “There's an argument to be made, and I think it is a point to be made, that the ceasefire has given Iran a much needed break, time to come up for air in the middle of all this”

Laura Loomer criticizes ceasefire deal with Iran: “Iran practically got everything that they wanted”

Newsmax guest on US ceasefire with Iran: “Like we've gotten the football to the 5-yard line and we're just calling the the game”

Tucker Carlson: “Killing noncombatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn't choose this war, who were just people created by God. That is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified.”

Right-wing media are defending Trump’s potential war crimes in Iran.

Tim Pool on Trump's expletive-filled Easter message: “Any way you cut it, I mean, that's a crazy post”

Ben Shapiro: “Anybody who is telling you that it's a war crime to bomb a bridge, well, no, it depends on the bridge and it depends on the military purpose of bombing the bridge”

Fox & Friends melts down about Stephen Colbert's April Fools' monologue mocking Trump's speech about his war in Iran: “(He's) rooting against the country. I think it’s shameful right now.” Read more: www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/fox...

Fox News' Trace Gallagher: “rising gas prices” may be “more emotional than physical”

Brian Kilmeade suggests parents going to the hospital to give birth should prove they're documented: "If there are two immigrants here that can't prove their immigration status, that would put the kid's citizenship in jeopardy.”

Jesse Watters questions the “emotional maturity” of women: “I hope there's not a female president in my lifetime”

NEW: Pete Hegseth once slammed federal officials for “insider trading.” His stockbroker reportedly tried to buy defense funds before the administration’s war with Iran. www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

Laura Ingraham on the Iran war: "I'm choosing not to panic. After all, no one on God's green Earth has a better political sense than Donald Trump."

Ben Shapiro downplays American ground troops in Iran: There will be “squads of, you know, at most, a few hundred who are performing special operations”

Sean Hannity accuses media of rooting against US in Iran war coverage: “Why did they root against our country?.. For crying out loud, can you just hope even if you disagree that it works?”

Tim Pool: “More and more rumors that we're going boots on the ground (in Iran). If that happens, I mean, Trump is cooked.”

Joe Rogan on possible Trump administration corruption: “In this administration ... the wolves have taken over the hen house”

Newsmax host: “We're in a war with — or, let's not call it a war — but we're in a conflict with Iran”

Fox & Friends discusses RFK Jr. working out in jeans: “I don’t like it in terms of gym etiquette, but I like it versus the alternative. If Kamala [Harris] won, your HHS secretary would be a guy wearing a dress to the gym.” Read more: www.thedailybeast.com/fox-friends-...

Jesse Watters argues for ICE agents at polling locations: "What's the problem? If illegals aren't voting, why can't ICE agents be at a polling station?"

Steve Bannon: ICE at airports can be “a test case to get, to really perfect ICE's involvement in the 2026 midterm elections”

Billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis: The homeless should “live in Uganda for $8.13 a day. We'll give them the check for $8.13 a day, let them live somewhere else.”

“Is it possible we could just pack up and go home?” Some right-wing media figures are urging Trump to declare early victory and leave Iran: www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Newsmax host on "homeless bums": "...put them in internment camps 100 miles away from cities"

After declaring that “we kind of just won the war,” Newsmax's Greg Kelly says that Americans can “handle” higher gas prices: "We're hardly ever called on to sacrifice anything anymore.”

Newsmax host: Zohran Mamdani “almost looks like Saddam Hussein here. He doesn't look like a nice man.”

Fox host on rising gas prices: “Do you think that the American people should say, OK, this is the sacrifice we have in short term?”

Joe Rogan says “people feel betrayed” by Trump's war in Iran: “He ran on no more wars”

Jesse Watters dismisses deadly strike on Iranian girls' school: “If someone made a mistake when they hit a school, that's bad, but that's war”

Daily Wire host: Pope Leo XIV's call for peace is “girly nonsense”

If only someone could have predicted this...

Right-wing Christian media are celebrating Trump’s war with Iran as a fulfillment of End Times prophecy. ➡️ www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

Nick Fuentes on Trump's war against Iran: “You are a demonic force. You are a liar. You are diabolical. You are a traitor.”

A MAGA media feud is erupting over Trump’s war against Iran: “We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore.” Read more: www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

As Trump seems to march closer and closer towards war with Iran, some in right-wing media have voiced a full-throated defense of using military intimidation to pursue regime change. Read more: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

Ben Shapiro: “What Candace [Owens] is doing right now is absolutely satanic to Erika Kirk”

UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell: Trump is “compromised” and “protecting” Epstein's associates

Newsmax host: “Maybe someone should investigate Colbert for election interference”

Fox host on potential war with Iran: “I think that the president needs to make a better case as to why this is in American interest”

Newsmax host calls out Fox News for not covering the Epstein story: "Rupert Murdoch was named repeatedly (in the Epstein files). Do you think maybe there might be a connection?"

TPUSA spokesperson links diversity efforts to the Potomac River sewage leak: “White men created Western civilization”

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.” www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

On Fox, Kid Rock calls Jay-Z a “DEI hire” by the NFL www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

The Benito Bowl has had right-wing media in their feelings for months

Fox News smeared Alex Pretti after he was shot by DHS officers ⬇️

MAGA personalities are furious after Jeanine Pirro appeared on her former network to warn even licensed, “law-abiding gun owners” that if they “bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.” Read more: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Tim Pool on mass layoffs at The Washington Post: “Let's talk about the death of this industry. And, is it good? Is it bad? Well, you know, I think it's kind of a good thing.

Greg Gutfeld: Women can be turned into revolutionaries because they “can have their compassion and their emotions hijacked”

Fox guest Dave Landau: Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny “would be killed” for talking trash in his own country so instead he's “insulting our country”

Tom Homan in August: ICE agents “need a judicial warrant for a search” ⬇️

Ben Shapiro: “It's kind of shocking to me that Bannon basically was doing PR rehab on Jeffrey Epstein and continues to go out there and be one of the main progenitors of the sort of Epstein scandal”