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Fox News just can't stop pushing Trump to start bombing Iran again

Right-wing media desperately try to downplay surging gas prices; Also, local news is spotlighting the crisis in American household budgets. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Florists are telling local news stations that rising fuel costs due to the Iran war are impacting their businesses and may drive up the price of Mother’s Day bouquets this year.

Seth Meyers schooled MAGA with the dictionary definition of “war,” as top officials and right-wing media pundits insist that the war on Iran is anything but an actual war.

As prices keep increasing, Meals on Wheels and similar programs across the country are struggling and turning to local news to sound the alarm

Trump retreats to the Fox-Trump feedback loop as his polling craters. His his loyal supplicants are providing him with an endless stream of happy talk. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

This was inevitable: Benny Johnson calls Hantavirus “an op to rig elections”

It’s May 2013, I’m at Media Matters researching right-wing attacks on food stamp recipients. It’s May 2026, I’m at Media Matters researching right-wing attacks on food stamp recipients. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

the story about fertilizer/diesel re: food production is -huge news- in local media and in trade publications. www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

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

Fox News hosts are now openly advocating for little kids to be mocked on the school playground if they are overweight - essentially saying it should be public policy. "It is a part of the MAHA movement, this is part of the, a central part of the MAHA movement." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dis...

For years, the MAGA faithful raged against the left’s supposed creeping culture of cancellation. Now, Trump's targeting of his enemies has begun to unsettle even his most loyal media allies.

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicked millions of Americans off SNAP, threatening lives as grocery prices continue to rise. Fox joined the Trump administration in celebrating: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

The harm done by Trump's illegal war in Iran really is trickling through to the communities that formed the bedrock of his constituency. For example: KFVS 12 News reports that fuel prices are threatening meal delivery services vital to rural seniors. www.mediamatters.org/fuel-files-r...

New from me: Fox joined the Trump administration in celebrating as millions of Americans are kicked off food stamps www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... Fox also pushed a right-wing goal of ending Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility for SNAP, misleadingly framing the cost-saving measure as fraud

Local media and agriculture trade publications are sounding the alarm as farmers are forced to raise prices and reduce yearly fertilizer purchases.

"This is a disaster" "Victims of our own success" "An intentional effort to destroy the United States" "Finish the job" Right-wing media are bitterly divided as Trump's war in Iran drags on New from me and @jwinstanley.bsky.social for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

While right-wing media figures are pushing to revoke citizenship from some naturalized Americans, the Trump administration is ramping up its denaturalization efforts.

Fox’s ”nuke” justification for the Iran war — and the higher prices it's wrought — has collapsed www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Fox pundits have repeatedly argued that the Iran war’s costs are “a small price to pay”. Can that be true if you get nothing in return?

Media Matters secures victory over Trump's FTC probe.

We fought. We won. Others can too.

“They hope everybody folds because the process is the punishment, and that paves the way for them to do it to more people and exert power, especially over the media.” www.mediamatters.org/ms-now-msnbc...

After a Pentagon official gave the first estimate of the cost of Trump’s war with Iran, Fox spent just 8 minutes of coverage discussing the $25 billion price tag.

Fight, don't fold.

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

After VRA ruling, Benny Johnson suggests the Trump administration “should go full speed ahead in bringing the full force of the federal government against these DEI districts”: www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

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.”

It's not quite that they pretend those killings never happened -- they developed an alternate narrative in which the killer was actually a leftist working for Tim Walz. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/aft...

Sean Hannity argues with caller who says US is losing Iran war: "It's not going to be a forever war ... In many ways, we've accomplished our main goal."

Conservative pundits cheered on the SCOTUS ruling that threatens to “dilute” the political power of minority voters, describing majority-minority districts as “DEI” and “no-whites-allowed.”

Megyn Kelly: “That is why the president's poll numbers on approval for this war continue to drop into the basement”

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

Fox promised gas prices had peaked. Whoops!; Also, right-wing media blame the media for Trump's unpopular war. This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

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 News is spending May Day -- a day to celebrate workers' rights and labor -- defending the wealthy and upper class They're arguing calls for the wealthy to pay their fair share not just socialist or communist, but "anti-American"

Fox promised 5% economic growth after Trump’s legislative agenda got implemented. Whoops! www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

Nicole Saphier, Trump's new pick for U.S. Surgeon General, has appeared on Fox News over 640 times.

Saphier is the 25th current or former Fox employee that Trump has selected for a top post in his second administration. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Recent Justice Department indictments whose validity have been questioned by legal experts demonstrate an increasing alignment of the Trump DOJ’s activities with the narratives of the MAGA media echo chamber. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/doj...

Fox News personalities are encouraging Trump to begin bombing Iran again as a tenuous ceasefire shows potential signs of collapse.

Fox News figures are desperately pushing for Trump to start bombing Iran again. At least two sit on the boards of directors of defense contractors that could benefit from a resumption of active hostilities.

Fox News is literally celebrating this already

Right-wing media have struggled to articulate a coherent response to the possibility of regime change in Iran.

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.”

"it was a really funny joke" Multiple callers push back after Megyn Kelly lashes out at Jimmy Kimmel

important to realize that even their audience isn't buying this stuff

Meanwhile the FCC is reportedly set to go after ABC in retaliation for a Jimmy Kimmel joke the president didn't like. This administration loathes free speech. www.mediamatters.org/abc/reported...

In making a push for ABC’s station licenses, the FCC would drastically escalate the Trump administration’s fight against free speech.