‘Fox And Friends’ Has The Most Predictable Reaction To Story On Trump Losing Money

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This segment went about how you’d expect from President Trump’s favorite TV show.

The hosts of “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday weighed in on a blockbuster New York Times article on Trump’s old tax returns — reporting that showed Trump lost $1 billion over the course of a decade.

The reaction on the Fox couch? Well, it actually makes Trump look good.

“They realize he’s a billionaire,”Ainsley Earhardt said of voters’ possible reaction to the story. “He was campaigning on the trail with his plane behind him that’s as big as a Delta jet, with his name on it. We can’t even fathom that kind of money. So I’m sure — if you have that kind of money you look at tax laws. You buy things to take a loss so that you make more the next year. But that’s not how most of us think.”

She added: “If anything, you read this and you’re like, wow, it’s pretty impressive all the things he has done in his life. It’s beyond what most of could ever achieve.”

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  1. Most of us can only DREAM of losing that much money! But for those who’d like to try, here’s a word from our sponsors…

  2. How fucking stupid do you have to be to think that you could lose a billion dollars in a year, pay no taxes and still have made billions of dollars?

    The three empty vessels on that couch is the answer.

  3. Credulous dupes say what?

    @greysea Some tens of millions are that stupid.

  4. "if you have that kind of money you look at tax laws. You buy things to take a loss so that you make more the next year. But that’s not how most of us think.”

    Our god is such a genius that we don’t even dare to match his wisdom! Oh how humble we are! In Trump we trust!
    FOX people are so creative in their ways of sucking up to Trump.

  5. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    So if I find a way to lose $1B, does that make me a billionaire? Cool. Especially if all the money I lose is grifted from other people, nothing that was ever mine – then I’m, like, the HUGEST Billionaire EVAH!!!

    Fucking morons. I sometimes wish Roger Ailes could get resurrected, just so someone could kill him again (so to speak), in an extremely painful way.

    Of course, Rupert Murdoch is still on this side of the grass, that evil motherfucker.

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