• Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment means “we might not have to worry about our children with autism.”
• From the Media Matters archive, here's this great piece explaining how Fox News created the War on Christmas - the dumbest part of America's culture wars. 

• War Room host Steve Bannon: “We want retribution and we’re going to get retribution.”

• In the wake of yet another school shooting, Newsmax host Greg Kelly condemned “a sick, lame, and lazy conversation about gun control,” adding: “It's not the guns.” 
• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said about Trump: “I love being able to just be able to call the president straight up.”
• Ben Shapiro: $100 billion of disaster relief funds is “overkill.”  
• Steve Bannon suggested another Trump run for the presidency: “Maybe we do it again in ‘28.”

On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson reached a deal with Democrats to fund the federal government through March while adding $110 million in disaster relief funding. But on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump and members of his transition team torpedoed the continuing resolution and threatened a government shutdown. Conservative media propagandists quickly rallied to Trump’s side, cheering on an imminent shutdown. 

• The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro said a “government shutdown isn’t the end of the world, We’ve done it before. It’s not that big a deal.” 
• War Room host Steve Bannon said: “I’d like just to shut it down. Go home.” 
• Fox’s Sean Hannity: “It’s a misnomer that a government shutdown is the worst thing in the world.” 
• Newsmax host Chris Plante: “I always enjoy a government shutdown no matter the time of year, but Christmas makes it especially nice.” 

While it may seem odd to intentionally risk a government shutdown less than a week before Christmas, conservative media figures have a history of championing them. On Thursday night, Fox’s Jesse Watters promised, “We’re going to see a lot more shutdowns during the second Trump term.”

Conservative Spanish-language media personalities have been downplaying President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations, claiming that Democrats and the media are fearmongering about Trump’s deportation scheme. These media figures have claimed that Trump “will not deport working immigrants” and that he is considering “immigration reform for all of those in the United States that are doing it right.” 

In truth, Trump has vowed to stage the “largest deportation operation in American History,” and his “border czar” Tom Homan has claimed, “No one’s off the table.” Recently, Trump also doubled down on his campaign promise to end birthright citizenship, falsely suggesting he could enact his plan through executive action and that he would “change” the 14th Amendment. 

Rather than focusing on these claims, conservative personalities on social media turned attention to Trump’s claims that he was willing to “work something out” for Dreamers. Ignoring his previous failed attempt to gut the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, conservative personalities argued Trump has “dismantled the narrative” that he is “racist.”

• A QAnon-affiliated podcast aired an interview with Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes on the same day Trump named him to chair the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. 
• Fox News host Sean Hannity boasted that he had dinner with drug company executives, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and other Trump staffers. 
• Media Matters President Angelo Carusone detailed how right-wing media have entrenched baseless conspiracy theories in “standard Republican Party orthodoxy.”
• White nationalist Nick Fuentes said Trump “has betrayed us” and “has no intelligence for governing.”