• Fox contributor Jason Chaffetz suggested adding Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore: “There’s a great case for it."
• Fox’s Greg Gutfeld said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s view on vaccines “seems more reliant on his gut instinct than science."
• YouTuber Patrick Be-David doesn’t understand why a Capitol Hill staffer would want to unionize.

• War Room host Steve Bannon called for imprisoning Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.
• Fox’s Jesse Watters said Trump won the 2020 election, and he cheered on loyalty tests for government employees.
• True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips said to government officials he claimed wronged him: “I’m going to track you down and I’m going to beat the living snot out of you."
• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk suggested removing chickenpox and hepatitis B from the childhood vaccine schedule.

• OAN’s Matt Gaetz floated a third Trump term.
• Fox Business host Charles Payne defended the rich on taxes, saying they are “already paying far more than their so-called fair share."
• Greg Gutfeld suggested women won’t “have to worry about getting raped on the subway” thanks to Trump’s tariffs.
• A Fox host suggested sending migrant families to Guantanamo Bay.
• Fox’s Laura Ingraham attacked Catholic Charities for helping migrants.
• The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: “Am I saying that every lawmaker on antidepressants should be removed from office? Yes."

On Wednesday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C., killing 67 people. During a Thursday press conference, President Donald Trump and other administration officials implied that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs could be the cause of the tragic loss of life. 

CNN’s aviation correspondent Pete Muntean responded to Trump’s presser by saying, “It is just unhinged that he could even say with any sort of certainty that diversity, equity, and inclusion policies had any part to play.” Right-wing media, however, immediately followed the president’s lead.

• Fox News personalities gushed over Trump’s press conference, calling him the “consoler-in-chief."
• Fox’s Greg Gutfeld said it’s “fair” to blame DEI for anything that goes wrong.
• Fox’s Sean Hannity connected the plane crash to DEI programs and said the crash “is why DEI can be dangerous."
• Fox’s Jesse Watters said air traffic control was “unable to meet their own DEI quotas, and that’s what is leading to staffing shortages."

DEI has long been a right-wing boogeyman, but to be clear: there is currently no evidence that DEI initiatives have any relation to the Wednesday night plane crash. It’s a disgusting, yet predictable, response by right-wing media figures to use a national tragedy to push their grotesque political agenda.

A new memo issued by the Trump administration directing the federal government to temporarily ease disbursing billions of dollars in funds — which has since been rescinded — appeared to draw on arguments made by Russ Vought, the president’s selectee to run the Office of Management and Budget.

Vought was a primary architect of Project 2025 as well as the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-aligned think tank that has spent over a year arguing that the president can unilaterally refuse to spend funds allocated by Congress.

The Trump administration spending memo was issued by Matthew Vaeth, acting director of OMB pending Vought’s confirmation vote. The document called for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance."

The memo triggered a massive reaction across the political spectrum.

Before the document was rescinded, Fox News — playing its normal role of propaganda outlet for the Trump White House — vociferously defended the likely illegal power grab. Steve Bannon celebrated the move on War Room, while Senate Democrats called for a delay to Vought’s confirmation vote following the news. A former OMB official said the memo read like a “hostage note written directly by Russ Vought."

As anti-vaccine proponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a Senate vote to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, right-wing media are split on whether to support his nomination. 

Some in right-wing media, including some Rupert Murdoch-owned outlets, have voiced opposition to Kennedy over his medical misinformation and Democratic past. 

• The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an op-ed titled “Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health.” 
• The editorial board of the New York Post urged senators to vote no on Kennedy, calling him “hazardous to our health.” 
• The National Review published an op-ed calling Kennedy a “left-wing menace.” 
• Ben Shapiro said Kennedy “expressed support for policies that I think are really troubling.” 

Others in right-wing media have supported Kennedy and downplayed his extreme views. 

• Fox’s Sean Hannity urged his radio listeners to call their senators and push them to confirm Kennedy, as well as Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. 
• Steve Bannon attacked “the Murdoch enterprise” for being “off the chain in coming after” Kennedy. 
• Podcaster and plagiarist Benny Johnson: “Senators must confirm RFK or face the absolute whirlwind of some very, very powerful forces of MAHA and MAGA that will absolutely torch them.” 
• Charlie Kirk: “For any Republican senator out there, if you vote against Bobby Kennedy, there will be primaries.”

The Wall Street Journal editorial board — citing a line of questioning from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), no favorite of theirs — also called out a “clear conflict of interest” for Kennedy, arguing it made him unfit to serve. Meanwhile, MAGA media people like Matt Walsh dismissed the issue.

• Project 2025 proposed targeting local officials who resist mass deportation efforts. Donald Trump is following through on that plan.
• Fox hosts have absolutely no idea how Trump’s idea to send undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay prison is going to work, but they already love it.
• Right-wing media are celebrating Donald Trump’s ban on trans service members in the military.
• Right-wing media figures are defending Trump’s policy allowing ICE arrests at schools, churches, and hospitals.
• Trump’s climate and energy executive orders reflect plans laid out in Project 2025. His indication that he wants to shutter or gut FEMA is another Project 2025 scheme.
• Right-wing media lashed out at Vice President JD Vance for saying violent January 6 defendants shouldn’t be pardoned. Donald Trump apparently listened to those voices by pardoning or commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people.
• As Trump’s mass deportation raids ramp up, Fox News falsely claimed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is initially targeting only violent undocumented immigrants for deportation, despite evidence to the contrary.
• Media Matters President Angelo Carusone discussed Trump and Project 2025, saying his recent moves are part of a strategy “to create trauma for federal employees."