About this episode

The episode critiques Fox News for its role in supporting Donald Trump and the consequences of that support.

At this point in the second Trump administration Fox News has become the parent of a spoiled child sitting in the principal’s office of an expensive private school insisting their kid did absolutely nothing wrong. The defiant parent stares back in scorn at an underpaid and overworked school administrator explaining. while sipping instant Maxwell House from a Styrofoam cup, how little Donny set fire to another teacher’s desk then faked an asthma attack to get out of detention. At the emergency room he threatened to fight the triage nurse after she determined his breathing was perfectly normal. President Donald J. Trump is the bratty monster who was never told no or given a boundary. As prices increase across the country and his poll numbers drop Fox News cannot face reality - the network helped raise this destructive beast. The pathological narcissist that they propped up and worshipped, and paid hundreds of millions in a defamation lawsuit to cover for has turned out to be a mad wannabe king hellbent on enriching himself and sticking his name and image on everything near him. As the president repeatedly makes false claims about the war with Iran the network dutifully repeats them…

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• Fox News
• political commentary
• media criticism
• narcissism
• defamation lawsuit

Keywords

• Fox News
• Donald Trump
• defiant parent
• defamation lawsuit
• media
• politics
• narcissism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox News, Maxwell House

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