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'Insulting': Fox News panel implodes after guest debunks Trump's voter ID argument

A Fox News segment exploring voter identification requirements imploded on Monday.

As the hosts and a guest talked over each other, Martha MacCallum said it was "insulting" to women and minorities to say they can't obtain an ID.

"There are already laws on the books, but let's also look at what has also been determined," urged liberal radio host and commentator Leslie Marshall.

"In 24 years, there have been 77 illegals who have registered to vote, how many of those 77 have voted? One," she said.

"So when we look at — if you're talking about voter fraud — here's the other thing. If, in fact, we do have voter ID, but not packaged this —" she said.

MacCallum interrupted her to discuss the "integrity of elections," despite Marshall having just said that only one undocumented immigrant had voted.

The Republicans' SAVE Act, a Trump-supported bill that critics warn could make it difficult for millions of Americans to vote, "takes power from the states and puts the federal government in play with the elections," Marshall said. "One. Two, if you want to have an ID, make it free, make it easily accessible. Especially to veterans, the homeless, the elderly..."

"It is insulting to people," MacCallum said. "It's insulting to women. They're saying women aren't capable of getting an ID. They're saying this man, a Black man who was, you know, just referenced said it is insulting to him to suggest that he can't get a legitimate ID."

The segment unraveled as the discussion descended into crosstalk.

Marshall suggested that women who marry and have a different name than on passports and birth certificates may not be able to vote.

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Fox hosts tell viewers Trump 'not really all that different' from them

Fox News hosts are suggesting that President Donald Trump is just an average guy.

In a segment on the cable network’s “Outnumbered” on Wednesday, co-host Harris Faulkner told her colleagues, “it’s ironic, though, but he’s not really all that different.”

Faulkner then sought to portray Trump — a billionaire real estate developer who owns multiple golf courses and the Mar-a-Lago resort — as relatable, describing him as “just a guy’s guy” and “not really all that different” from ordinary Americans.

“He loves McDonald’s,” she said.

“He likes to hang.”

“He loves his family.”

“And kind of, like, not that McDonald’s is poor to being, like, an all American, but I think it is — love those fries,” Faulkner remarked.

“But, I mean, he’s all those things that you don’t have to have a billion dollars or have to have zero dollars to get,” she exclaimed. “He’s just a guy’s guy.”

Faulkner went on to say that Trump “respects women.”

“He’s hired a lot of tremendously talented women — we’ve met them.”

“My dad,” she added, “used to say, the test of a man is how he treats the women in his life.”

“Can he be that alpha, and be loving, and generous, and all those things?”

Co-host Riley Gaines added, “They called him a misogynist but really he’s the worst misogynist, ever.”

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MAGA fumes as even Fox News sounds alarm over Trump’s latest retribution

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) investigating Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has prompted criticism from the president's favorite news network — which has in turn sparked criticism from Trump's base.

On Sunday night, Powell announced he was under a criminal investigation by the DOJ. He argued that while the investigation is ostensibly for the cost of renovations to the Fed's Washington D.C. campus, he was being targeted for his refusal to accommodate the president's persistent demands to lower interest rates.

In a Monday segment, Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume told host Bret Baier that while he disagreed with Powell on interest rates, he felt the DOJ's investigation was bare and unlikely to succeed.

"Does anybody think this would be happening, this investigation, if Powell had acquiesced to the president and set interest rates where the president wants?" Hume said. "... It's certainly possible, Bret, in the sweep of history, this system we have where the Federal Reserve has so much control over interest rates was really not ideal. But would it be better if the politicians and the presidents had control of the interest rates? And I think not many economists you'd find on any side of any aisle would say that that's better."

Hume's comments appeared to set off many of Trump's MAGA base on social media. Wendy Maldonado, who describes herself in her X bio as a MAGA conservative and a "Donald Trump supporter," commented: "It's amazing how they just brush off the entire situation like he is above the law!" Another conservative X user wrote that he was "extremely disappointed" in Hume.

"Brit, you are almost always right. On Powell, you are dead wrong," wrote actor and stuntman Matthew S. Harrison. "He's a political operative. Full stop."

"Brit still looking thru his rose colored swamp glasses," tweeted author Mark Jones.

Watch Hume's segment below:

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Fox News hosts call out Noem's 'inconsistent' claims on Minneapolis shooting

Even hosts at the conservative Fox News Channel aren't convinced that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem's take on Wednesday's fatal shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota is accurate.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that several primetime Fox News hosts cast doubt on Noem's version of events. The DHS secretary initially stated that 37 year-old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good was attempting to run over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents when she was fatally shot. She added that Good was committing an "act of domestic terrorism."

Noem later doubled down on her initial claims in a Wednesday press conference, saying that Good had "weaponized" her car against ICE agents who were stuck in the snow and that federal agents fired shots out of self-defense. But Fox News host John Roberts said that the DHS secretary's version of events didn't jibe with video evidence.

"I’ve seen the video several times as well — kind of gone through it frame by frame. I don’t want to describe it because you can’t see the entire scene play out," Roberts said.

"There is an area in front of the vehicle that is obscured by the vehicle itself, so we don’t know 100 percent what happened during that incident, but what I saw of it does counteract the narrative that they were trying to push their car out of the snow," he continued. "... That vehicle was clearly in the middle of the street, as it was approached by a couple of federal agents before it sped off."

Fox host Jessica Tarlov — who is a liberal panelist on the show The Five — claimed "ICE just killed that woman" in response to the video. And while conservative panelist Harold Ford Jr. didn't use Tarlov's words, he also doubted Noem's account of events after viewing the video of the shooting.

"I couldn’t understand when she said it was an act of ‘domestic terrorism’ and she said the car was stuck in snow, and the officers—I think her characterization, maybe she got bad information, because her characterization seemed inconsistent with what we are seeing here," Ford said.

Click here to read the Beast's full report (subscription required).

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'You're wrong': Fox host slammed for saying America is a 'Christian nation'

A Fox News host is under fire over her unique take on whether or not America is s Christian nation.

Carley Shimkus, co-host of “Fox & Friends First,” came to the defense of Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday. The Arkansas Republican had declared Friday, the day after Christmas, a holiday, “in order that state employees may spend this holiday with their families giving thanks for Christ’s birth.”

Huckabee Sanders went even further.

“More than two millennia ago in the little town of Bethlehem,” she wrote in an official state email last week, according to the Arkansas Times, “far from the centers of power in first-century Rome, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born in a humble manger.”

“Jesus was the Messiah and became a teacher and leader, and He would be crucified, suffer for the sins of all mankind, die and be buried, and rise again on the third day to sit at the right hand of the Father.”

The governor was admonished by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which called her declaration an “abuse of power.”

“State offices are not churches, and gubernatorial proclamations are not sermons,” Chris Line, an attorney with the group wrote in a press release, the Arkansas Times also reported. “The governor is free to practice her religion privately, but she may not use the authority of the state to promote Christian doctrine as official government speech.”

On Tuesday, on Fox News’ “Outnumbered,” Shimkus told viewers, “the bottom line here is that, yes, we are a secular republic when it comes to our government, but we are a Christian nation.”

Shimkus had also declared that the governor received the letter criticizing her message, “as she was leaving a menorah lighting ceremony, like, that’s the irony of the timing of that.”

“Also,” she said, continuing to defend the governor, “she’s the daughter of … the ambassador to Israel.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation responded to Shimkus’ remarks on social media.

“We’re a secular nation where you’re free to believe whatever you want,” the organization wrote. “So you can believe that we’re a Christian nation… But you’re wrong.”

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'How stupid he sounds': Trump official mocked after Fox host confronts him on 'hyperbole'

Even Fox News is skeptical of claims coming from President Donald Trump's administration, according to one recent exchange on the conservative network.

During a Thursday interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Fox host John Roberts pointed out that Trump's claim during his Wednesday night address that he had lowered prescription drug prices by up to 600 percent was "mathematically impossible."

"If you cut something by 100 percent, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by four [hundred], five or six hundred percent, the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products," Roberts said as Lutnick laughed. "So it raises the question, how much of last night's speech was hyperbole, and how much was fact?"

The commerce secretary pushed back, giving a hypothetical example of a drug that previously cost $100 dropping to $13, and saying that while that is an 87 percent drop, it could also be understood that the drug would have to increase in price "by 700 percent" in order to return to the old price.

"It all depends on how you look at it," Lutnick said. "Basically what he's saying — and we all know what he's saying — is we are hammering the price of drugs down."

Lutnick's explanation didn't go over well on social media. Journalist Greg Sargent of the New Republic observed that "Lutnick actually laughs at Trump's math here before quickly catching himself."

"I’m glad this is on record so Lutnick can look back at how STUPID he sounds," tweeted actor D.K. Uzoukwu.

"A middle school student should be kicked out of class for the ridiculous explanation," wrote management consultant Eric B. Lewis. "There is a literal war on education."

Tahra Hoops, who is the director of economic analysis at the Chamber of Progress, took issue with Lutnick saying "we all know what he's saying," countering "no we do not!"

"It is not normal for the president to fabricate, to hyperbolic percentages, the amount he would be able to bring down a specific price!" Hoops exclaimed.

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'Disastrous': Voters increasingly frustrated with Trump's 'train wreck of an economy'

U.S. President Donald Trump aggressively defended his economic record during his address to the nation on Wednesday night, December 17. Trump's overtly partisan speech often sounded like a MAGA rally, with the president repeatedly claiming — falsely — that he inherited a broken economy from Democratic former President Joe Biden.

But in fact, the United States enjoyed record-low unemployment levels during Biden's presidency — including 3.7 percent in November 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). And many polls are showing widespread dissatisfaction with Trump on the economy.

One of them is a poll conducted by conservative network Fox News from December 12-15.

The poll found that while Trump's overall approval is 44 percent, only 39 percent of respondents approve of his handling of the economy. And a mere 28 percent described economic conditions in the U.S. as either excellent or good.

Newsweek's Mandy Taheri notes that inflation remains a daunting problem for Trump.

"On Thursday," Taheri reports, "the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the delayed Consumer Price Index (CPI) for November, revealing that the 12-month rate of inflation stood at 2.7 percent. Core inflation — excluding the volatile food and energy categories — also slowed to 2.6 percent from three percent in September, reaching its lowest rate since March 2021."

The Fox News poll, Taheri points out, isn't the only one showing that Trump is underwater on the economy.

"Other polls, such as an Associated Press-NORC poll, have found unfavorable ratings for Trump," Taheri explains. "Conducted between December 4 and 8, the AP-NORC poll found that only 31 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy, down from 40 percent in March, marking the lowest economic approval rating measured of his first or second term with this particular pollster."

Democratic strategists and organizers are pushing back against Trump claims that the U.S. economy is booming.

Democratic National Committee Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer told Newsweek, "Donald Trump's train wreck of an economy is catching up to him, and it's no wonder voters are pissed. Trump promised to 'lower costs on Day One,' but prices are soaring, and good-paying jobs are out of reach for everyday Americans. Trump's plan of action so far has been to call affordability a 'hoax' and tell Americans not to 'be dramatic.' Meanwhile, working families are skipping meals, forgoing critical medical care, and depleting their savings as Trump doubles down on his disastrous economic policies."

Read Mandy Taheri's full article for Newsweek at this link.

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Fox host melts down at panelist who said FIFA created special 'peace prize' just for Trump

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld erupted at one of his fellow panelists recently after they suggested that an award President Donald Trump recently received was superficial.

Mediaite reported that during Friday's episode of The Five, Gutfeld was complimentary toward FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association, which organizes the quadrennial World Cup) after its president, Gianni Infantino, awarded Trump a "FIFA peace prize" during a World Cup ceremony at the Kennedy Center. The prize included a gold statue and a gold medal that Trump put around his own neck.

Co-panelist Gillian Turner countered that FIFA's prize was effectively meaningless, since there were no other candidates for it. Gutfeld snapped at Turner, saying: "What's your beef with this? What's your problem?"

"It wasn't like Trump beat out other people for the prize," Turner said.

"So? What’s your point? Do you with that it went to Amnesty International or Greenpeace?" Gutfeld replied.

When Turner observed that she didn't know why FIFA needed to give an award in the first place, co-panelist Jesse Watters quipped: "Because they're kissing [Trump's] butt ... because he's hosting the game."

Gutfeld then hounded Turner, asking her "who deserves a peace prize?" He further asserted that Trump had been "going around the world basically brokering peace."

"Why shouldn’t he get a peace prize? Not that I really care, but this is just fun," he said.

Turner countered that the FIFA peace prize wasn't going to help Trump in his quest to get the Nobel Peace Prize, and referred to that as her "free expert advice for Gianni Infantino."

"Why do you hate President Trump?" Gutfeld persisted.

Click here to read Mediaite's full article.

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Fox host admits layoffs under Trump at highest point in decades

Layoffs in the United States have surpassed 1.1 million in 2025, according to a new report. And even one Fox Business host who is typically in President Donald Trump's corner is taking notice of the dire economic picture heading into 2026.

During a Thursday segment on Fox Business, Maria Bartiromo – who Trump was reportedly considering naming as his running mate in 2024 — read the details of the report aloud on her show, and remarked to panelist John Lonski that she had previously pressed Trump about the impact of new technology on jobs.

"Job cuts surpassed one million – the highest October total since 2003," Bartiromo said. "Companies cite cost-cutting AI in October. John, this is exactly what I asked the president about."

"That's the problem. Not only were announced layoffs ... the highest level since 2020 — that's a recession year — but announced hirings are also down considerably," said Lonski, who is the former chief economist at Moody's Investors Service. "That's not a good mix. And you have to worry about jobs growth. If you don't start growing payrolls, eventually that's going to hurt the growth of consumer incomes and, in turn, consumer spending will suffer."

"The other thing that I want to point out is a lot of these people who are losing jobs because of AI have white-collar jobs. But as you noted, we have a lot of openings for people with skilled trades," he continued. "How in the world are we going to get somebody who has a background in accounting, maybe finance, to become an auto mechanic?"

As both Bartiromo and Lonski observed, artificial intelligence replaced 54,700 jobs in 2025 alone. E-commerce giant Amazon announced in October that it would be replacing approximately 14,000 workers with AI "to operate like the world's largest startup." Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (Challenger) also found in its layoff report that Trump's tariffs are responsible for roughly 8,000 layoffs across the U.S. economy.

Challenger also found that the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, (DOGE) which was led by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was responsible for an estimated 300,000 layoffs in 2025. In addition to its impact on public sector employment, residual effects from DOGE were also seen elsewhere, with businesses and nonprofits laying off 21,000 people as a result of federal funding cuts.

Watch the segment below:

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Trump lashes out at Fox News reporter as 'fake news' after Cabinet meeting

President Donald Trump reportedly erupted at a Fox News reporter on Tuesday after a lengthy Cabinet meeting, in response to a somewhat tough question.

That's according to The Independent's Andrew Feinberg, who tweeted Tuesday that Trump had confrontation with reporter reporter Ed Lawrence at the White House. Feinberg noted that Lawrence asked the president if he thought Americans were "getting impatient with the reforms you're making."

"I think they're getting fake news from guys like you," Trump responded.

The network's on-air host at the time, John Roberts, apparently took umbrage to how Trump addressed Lawrence. According to Vanity Fair Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin, Roberts commented: "Ed is such a nice guy. I don't know why the president would do that."

"Not sure how you can possibly be surprised by Trump attacking the press in 2025," McLaughlin quipped in a subsequent post.

Trump's attitude toward the press has become increasingly confrontational despite his frequent press gaggles in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. In one interaction on Air Force One, Trump snapped at a female reporter by saying "quiet, piggy" in response to a question about the Jeffrey Epstein files. And during a Mar-a-Lago press conference over the Thanksgiving holiday, the president called CBS reporter Nancy Cordes "a stupid person" after she asked about the vetting process for the suspect in last week's shooting in downtown Washington D.C.

However, Trump's comment toward Lawrence marks the first notable occasion of the president having a tense exchange with a reporter from his favorite network. Trump has appointed nearly two dozen employees of the conservative network to positions within his administration, including former part-time Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, and former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (which is typically considered to be the Department of Justice's top prosecutor).

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Fox host accuses Trump's Pentagon chief of throwing top military official under the bus

Fox News host Brit Hume may be a longtime colleague of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (who was a former part-time weekend host on the network), but that didn't stop him from taking a jab at President Donald Trump's top military official.

On Monday, as blowback continues to escalate in response to a Washington Post report about Hegseth supposedly ordering that two survivors of a destroyed boat be killed, Hegseth posted a statement to his official X account that appeared to praise Admiral Frank M. Bradley. While the Post's sources said Hegseth gave the order to "kill everybody," the White House clarified that Adm. Bradley — the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) — is the one who actually approved the secondary strike on September 2, 2025 that killed the two survivors.

"Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100 percent support," Hegseth posted. "I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us."

The statement was almost immediately scrutinized by various journalists, experts and commentators, including Hume. The conservative network's chief political analyst quote-posted Hegseth and argued the defense secretary was demonstrating "how to point the finger at someone while pretending to support him."

Atlantic contributor Tom Nichols — who is also a retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College — also piled on, tweeting: "'Let's make one thing crystal clear: That guy over there is the guy you want.'"

Former Fox News, CNN and MSNBC journalist David Shuster accused Hegseth of "stabbing the admiral in the back," and suggested the Pentagon leader "try taking some responsibility." Vinny Green, who is the former chief operating officer of fact-checking website Snopes, responded to Hegseth's post with a GIF of South Park character Eric Cartman getting thrown under a bus.

"Wow. You cook up a cruel and ineffective strategy based on illegal extrajudicial killings (i.e. murder), force the military to carry it out based on a nonsensical [White House] legal interpretation, then throw the commander under the bus at the first blowback. Incredible," wrote Max Hoffman, who is a foreign policy advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

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