• Fox’s Brian Kilmeade said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing sensitive information with his family could be part of a “learning curve.” 
• Sean Hannity: “Climate changing is the left’s mechanism for Marxism.” 
• The Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore on Trump’s tariff strategy: “This is all kind of going according to plan.”
• Newsmax guest Batya Ungar-Sargon: “There are things we have to consume and things we don’t have to consume. Not all inflation is the same.”

• Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy said he fears the Trump administration won’t “honor due process.” 
• Fox’s Liz Peek said she is “so sick of hearing about due process for people who are in our country illegally.” 
• Podcaster Benny Johnson on Trump administration leakers: It would “be nice to see one of these people go to jail. It’d be nice to see the hammer dropped.”

• Brian Kilmeade cautioned against a trade deal with China: “I’d hate to think that…in the end we blinked.” 
• Newsmax guest Peter Schiff: “Trump doesn’t understand who pays the tariffs…They’re paid for by the middle class and the poor.” 
• Cigar company founder and Daily Wire host Michael Knowles plead Trump for a tariff exemption “for all of the patriotic Americans … who work in the premium cigar industry, and for all of the premium cigar smokers.” 
• The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro said “the underlying health of the Trump economy was good” before the tariffs.

President Donald Trump’s second administration hasn’t yet hit the 100-day mark, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is already being routinely described as “embattled.” Last Friday, Hegseth fired three of his top aides. Sunday brought two new body blows: News that Hegseth had shared details about U.S. strikes in Yemen in a second unsecured Signal chat, and a scathing op-ed from a former top Pentagon spokesperson who accused Hegseth of creating “total chaos” at the department. 

As Media Matters’ Matt Gertz explains, nominating a Fox & Friends host to lead the Department of Defense was obviously stupid, but “what Hegseth had in spades was the one attribute Trump seems to value above all others — years of expressing sycophantic public support for the president on Fox. For Trump, a Fox obsessive who stocked both of his administrations with familiar faces from the network’s green rooms, that was enough.” 

As we keep seeing over and over again with Trump administration catastrophes, the right-wing media complex has gone into defense mode this week. In response to reports that Hegseth shared secret war plans with his family, right-wing media have been blaming the “deep state.”

Right-wing media personalities have dismissed the importance of due process rights in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland resident with protected legal status who the government has admitted was wrongfully deported to El Salvador — claiming that “it would literally take 1,000 years to give 10 million illegal immigrants one hour each of ‘due process,’” and lamenting that “if every MS-13 member goes through their own hearing, we’ll never get these guys out of here.” Others have claimed that “if you’re in the country illegally, you don't get due process,” and said that noncitizens “do not have due process under the law like U.S. citizens do.” 

• Fox News host Jesse Watters said that it’s “common sense” to deny due process to Abrego Garcia and other people being sent to the Salvadoran prison. 
• Referencing Abrego Garcia, Fox’s Jeanine Pirro dismissed the need for due process. 
• Sean Hannity: “If you’re in the country illegally, you don’t get due process.”

• YouTube content creators have earned more than 200 million views on videos of their visits to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. 
• Fox Business host Stuart Varney: Voters are “not real happy with the economy, with the possibility of a recession, with inflation, and the tariffs.” New polling shows that Trump's approval rating is falling.
• Trump proposed sending U.S. citizens to a foreign prison. Even his sycophantic supporter Charlie Kirk opposes the idea. 
• WNYC’s On the Media explored how and why MAGA media and right-wing influencers have captured a massive audience on the internet. 
• Sean Hannity downplayed the risks of the U.S. striking Iran.