The actions of President Trump’s rapid fire reshape the federal government and in Fox News simply seek “common sense”.
The introduction of “bold and sometimes painful measures” is worth it, a Fox News host said to reach “common sense”. Mr Trump’s term so far, another inflated fox came to the conclusion, could be summarized with this simple phrase: it is a “restoration of common sense”.
“Trump is not radical – it is radically changing our country back to normal,” Jesse Watters said during a Monday episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime”. He said that Mr Trump’s plans for “displaced immigrants” and waste reduction were “all common sense movements”.
The flood of “common sense” comments on Fox News resonates with the language that Mr Trump and his new administration have used to justify his policies – many of which have been deeply divided into the country, have shown polls. The administration has developed the slogan to support a series of actions, by banning the paper reeds to reverse efforts to tackle climate change and has described its early weeks as a “revolution in the common sense”.
“It’s easy to do a good job when you act in common sense and talk the truth,” said Karoline Leavitt, a White House press secretary, in a recent update.
The Common Language reflects the expatriate ties between the government and the right media, especially Fox News, by far the most popular Nation Network. Nearly 20 former Fox News graduates joined the administration, including higher levels, with former guests Pete Hegseth taking over the Pentagon and Sean Duffy driving the Transport Department. Lara Trump, the president’s bride, received her own demonstration on the network.
Fox News refused to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comments.
The proposal of Fox News and the White House is that Mr Trump’s “common sense” policies are not only the right ones, but also have great support between the overwhelming majority of Americans. The poll has offered a more complicated picture.
Mr Trump’s efforts to ban diversity, equality and integration – known as DEI – divide the country evenly, according to a New York Times poll from January before its inauguration: 48 % wants to Eliminating such programs, while 47 % support them.
The same can be said about parts of Mr Trump’s Middle East policy. (Mr Trump supported the support for Israel, while 53 % in the same survey said the United States spends too much to support the country.) The expulsion of all illegal immigrants, a cornerstone of K.’s immigration policy. Trump, has a subtle majority support, with 55 % supporting the idea.
Some of Mr Trump’s other policies are more popular: Most Americans-about 80 %, including two-thirds of Democrats-said that transsexual women should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to a poll. January. (Mr Trump signed an executive order that prevents their participation.) A larger share, about 87 %, supports the expulsion of unauthorized immigrant with a criminal record, according to the poll. (Mr Trump signed a law in January, who will disappoint immigrants without documents accused of a variety of crimes, from the destruction of a murder.)
Other policies promoted as “common sense” by Mr Trump and conservative media have no recent polls to evaluate their popularity, including ending the tenth and demanding a photo ID to vote.
The embrace of “common sense” has increased in Fox News, where the term was reported almost 500 times in January, according to data from Critical Mange, a media surveillance company, an increase of about 200 in previous years.
Some of the references to Fox News come from its own “common section”, a section hosted by the Trace Gallagher reacting to news based on what “common sense” will dictate.
As Trump moved to disassemble the United States International Development Service, which provides funding for humanitarian programs around the world, protests broke out and democratic legislators have raised rallies to support the team.
Mr Gallagher rejected the dams during a section, pointing out some programs funded by USAID: “Common logic will not describe it as foreign aid, but rather a domestic Boondoggle, a boondoggle of many billion dollars.”
Recent polls show that the majority of Americans – about 60 % – supporting interior problems and not abroad, a transition from 2019, when the Americans were evenly divided into this question. (A foreign aid expenditure poll since 2014 also showed that 95 % of respondents overestimated or did not know how much the United States spent on foreign aid.
Mark Levin, a host of Fox News and Mr Trump’s close ally, appeared to recognize the echo between the White House and Fox News when he put the president’s phrase in his performance.
“What Trump proposes is not radical. It is ‘common sense’ as it puts it,” said Levin. . “
Rut and Christine Zhang They contributed reports.
