36 m. ago Trump’s latest Fox News hire looks even worse than Pete Hegseth | Margaret Sullivan

Jeanine Pirro, who hasn’t held a government legal job in decades, does have a key qualification: relentless loyalty to the presidentThe revolving door between the Trump administration and rightwing Fox News took another wild spin this week, as America’s TV-obsessed president tapped Jeanine Pirro for a prominent legal post: top federal prosecutor for Washington DC.Pirro is unqualified, perhaps even more so than was her former Fox colleague Pete Hegseth when he was named Trump’s defense secretary a few months ago. In that crucial position, Hegseth has been a dangerous embarrassment, as his shockingly inappropriate communications have exposed national security secrets to the world.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade gripes that Laura Loomer shouldn’t have ‘credibility to pick’ who serves in Trump admin

Brian Kilmeade said that he hoped Dr. Janette Neishewat’s nomination for surgeon general ‘wasn't pulled because of Laura Loomer’

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19 h. ago Trump gets the Fox News band back together for his second administration

In just his first few months in office, Trump has already hired 23 Fox Newsers to work in his administration, Justin Baragona reports — including one of the network’s most loyal MAGA sycophants to serve as DC’s top prosecutor

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19 h. ago Former Trump official faints live on Fox News in horror moment as medics rush in

Former Trump administration official and right-wing pundit Camryn Kinsey shocked Fox News anchor Jonathan Hunt when her eyes rolled back and she fell off of her chair

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36 h. ago Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC

The pick comes as Trump announced he was pulling support from Ed Martin

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36 h. ago Trump names Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC – US politics live

Pirro to serve as interim attorney for Washington DC after it became clear Ed Martin would not pass Senate confirmation The winners and losers of Trump’s first tariff war strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers.New analysis by the non-profit research advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW), shared exclusively with the Guardian, shows that Trump’s first-term tariffs were particularly devastating for farmers in the Maga rural heartlands. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Trump nominates Dr Casey Means, influencer close to RFK Jr, for surgeon general

President taps wellness influencer after withdrawing initial pick, former Fox News contributor Janette NesheiwatDonald Trump has tapped Dr Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, as nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his initial pick for the influential health post.The US president said in a social media post on Wednesday that Means has “impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials” – referring to the “make America healthy again” slogan – and that she will work to eradicate chronic disease and improve the health and wellbeing of Americans. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Trump picks conspiracy theorist with no medical license to replace Fox News contributor as Surgeon General

Previous nominee was withdrawn amid claims she had misrepresented her medical education

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4 d. ago Is Trump trying to force Fox News to replace its top media host with a MAGA sycophant?

The president praised Fox News media critic Joe Concha — whom Sean Hannity has long advocated to get his own show — while simultaneously urging MediaBuzz host Howard Kurtz to ‘retire’ for not defending him strongly enough, writes Justin Baragona

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5 d. ago Trump attacks ‘total loser’ Karl Rove after Republican strategist delivers 100

Famed Republican strategist Karl Rove clearly irked Donald Trump, who reacted with a post on his social media platform Truth Social

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8 d. ago Trump applauds ‘special guy’ Steve Doocy as emotional Fox & Friends veteran quits the curvy couch

‘You’ve always treated me fairly – sometimes a little more fairly than other times, but that’s okay,’ the president told the longtime Fox & Friends host on Thursday

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 9 unhinged things Donald Trump did in last 24 hours as he suffers TV interview meltdown

After agreeing to do an interview with ABC to mark his first 100 days back in office, Donald Trump quickly remembered why he usually only does interviews with Fox News.

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1 week ago Karl Rove sounds the alarm on Trump’s plummeting poll numbers: ‘He’s in very bad shape’

‘Well, I think the tariffs are a big problem because people understand that it is a tax and that it’s going to be a tax on them that they have to pay,’ the former George W. Bush adviser declared this weekend

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1 week ago Trump rages over low polling numbers and scolds Fox News and others while demanding investigations into pollsters

Majority of polls find that voters are generally displeased with president’s policies in his first 100 days back in office

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2 w. ago Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade said Putin is ‘embarrassing’ Trump with latest Ukraine bombing

Trump repeatedly boasted during presidential campaign and after his White House victory that he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in one day

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2 w. ago Trump takes aim at Rupert Murdoch and Fox News after poll frames President in negative light

Trump asked Murdoch to ‘start making changes’ at the Wall Street Journal and get rid of a pollster at Fox News

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2 w. ago Trump calls for Rupert Murdoch to fire staff at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal in furious Truth Social post: ‘It sucks!’

Trump asked Murdoch to ‘start making changes’ at the Wall Street Journal and get rid of a pollster at Fox News

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2 w. ago White House slams ‘fake news’ report that search is underway for Pete Hegseth replacement amid Pentagon chaos

President Donald Trump continues to stand by the former Fox News weekend host

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2 w. ago Katy Perry got into space but I can’t get to Norwich | Stewart Lee

The pop star is back on Earth, the tech bros are wrecking everything, and my tour isn’t visiting that fine city of the east. Surely doomsday is nighA group of six women returned to Earth from space on Monday, including Katy Perry, the former wife of the Trump cheerleader Russell Brand; and the former Fox news presenter and philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, fiancee of Donald Trump’s media lapdog Jeff Bezos, who bent Washington Post editorial policy to favour the New American Fascism ™ ®. It’s a shame they didn’t fly straight into the heart of the sun.The six compliant women were sent to space as a costly PR exercise for Bezos’s commercial space flight ambitions, although Perry said it was actually about “finding the love for yourself” and “feeling that divine feminine”. Tell that to all the women worldwide whom Bezos’s pal Trump’s policies are penalising. Singing idiot. Katy Perry said she kissed a girl and she liked it. As Trump rolls back on LGBTQ+ rights I’m surprised the Trump-adjac...

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2 w. ago Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities anonymous in public court records

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