President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed routinely offers followers a relatively transparent window into what news items from “Fox and Friends” incensed or pleased the President the most.
But, nearly two years into Trump’s presidency, it’s become increasingly difficult to decipher who is influencing whom.
Coming off a weekend of foaming Trump tweets about the caravan of migrants traveling toward the U.S.-Mexico border, “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade appeared to have taken a page from Trump’s book as he shouted about reports that the immigrants hoped to seek asylum in the U.S.
“To think you have somebody organized like this, to march where they get maximum publicity and defiantly say, ‘I’m coming to America and you can’t stop me.’ They have their own chants, they have their own organization. To me this is an ‘in your face’ to America,” he said.
He then picked up another regular Trump talking point: blaming Democrats. In recent tweets, Trump has claimed that Democrats are responsible for the caravan and has even declared he’d pull aid from countries like Guatemala for not stopping the group.
“Democrats should be just as outraged about this and they should about the Khashoggi killing,” he said, referencing the Washington Post writer who was allegedly murder by Saudi officials earlier this month. “This should be one that brings both sides together to say, ‘We have to have integrity at our borders.'”
“How in the world are they able to walk that far?” co-host Ainsley Earhardt said in response, asking only the toughest questions.
"Fox and Friends" host, incensed by migrant caravan heading toward U.S. claims Democrats should be "just as outraged" by the group of immigrants as they are about WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. pic.twitter.com/nYZDQgKWLF
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 22, 2018
Minutes later, Trump unleashed in a series of tweets, declaring the approaching group of immigrants a “National Emergy.”
Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018
Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018
Next up: the caravan people carry bone saws and are going to use them on white Americans.
Fox and Trump, each and every day continue to shout out to the world what shitty, deplorable human beings they are.
They left their country of ORIGIN and their LEADERS did NOTHING about it!
Ugh. Fox is catering to an audience of absolute idiots. Idiots that voted for Trump and will do so again. Let’s stop pretending that the station itself is the problem.
Oh Ainsley dear it’s 1200 miles from southern Mexico to Brownsville, TX and it was 1350 miles from Nauvoo, IL to Salt Lake City Utah. How many Mormons live in UT now?