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Fox News Turns on Trump After Iran Reversal
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Fox Praises Trump's Correspondents' Dinner Speech
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The episode takes a satirical turn as Meiselas plays Fox News's breathless coverage of Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech. Tomi Lahren declared that Trump 'stole the show.' The clips that follow show Trump making jokes about Joe Biden losing consciousness, Kamala Harris's intelligence, Chris Christie and Jerry Nadler fighting over cheesecake, and Chuck Schumer becoming a 'proud Palestinian.' Trump also 'announced' his intention to run for a fourth term. Fox panelists gushed that Trump 'killed it' and that the unimpressed journalists in the audience were simply 'losers.' Meiselas counters that the speech was the single worst he's ever witnessed in world history — painful to watch, poorly delivered, and, as he reported separately, based on plagiarized jokes. The segment serves as a microcosm of Fox's broader role in the episode: manufacturing a flattering reality for a president whose actions don't support the narrative.
Fox News hosts called Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner speech a triumph. Ben Meiselas countered that it was the worst speech in world history — and that many of the bad jokes were plagiarized to boot.
Ben Meiselas described Ukrainian strikes on Iranian ships in the Caspian Sea as a sign the Middle East war is fusing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global conflict.
Ukrainian strikes on Iranian ships in the Caspian Sea are fusing the Middle East conflict with Russia's Ukraine invasion into a single global war. Ben Meiselas argues this is the direct result of Trump's foreign policy failures.
