President Trump's quick -fire policy actions reform the federal government, and for Fox News they simply strive for 'common sense'.
It is worth taking “daring and sometimes painful measures,” said a Fox News -Gastheer, to come to “common sense.” The term of Mr Trump so far, concluded another Fox expert, could be summarized with that simple slogan: it is a 'recovery of common sense'.
“Trump is not radical – he just changes our country radically back to normal,” said Jesse Watters during the episode of Monday of “Jesse Watters Primetime.” He said that Mr. Trump's plans to “deport migrants” and reduce waste were “all common sense.”
The stream of “common sense” comments about FOX News reflects the language that Mr Trump and his new government have used his policy – many of which have distributed the country deeply have demonstrated polls. The administration has used the slogan to support a range of actions, from banning paper straws to reversing efforts to reverse climate change, and has described its first weeks as a 'revolution in common sense'.
“It is easy to do well if you act on common sense and you speak the truth,” said Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House, during a recent briefing.
The shared language reflects the in -depth ties between the government and the right -wing media, in particular Fox News, by far the most popular cable news network in the country. Almost 20 former FOX News -Alumni became members of the administration, including at the highest level, with the former hosts Pete Hegseeth took over the Pentagon and Sean Duffy led to the transport department. Lara Trump, the daughter -in -law of the president, has received her own show on the network.
Fox News refused to comment. The White House did not respond to a request for comments.
The suggestion of Fox News and the White House is that Mr. Trump's 'common sense' policy is not only the right one, but also has great support in the vast majority of Americans. Polling has offered a more complicated image.
Mr Trump's efforts to prohibit diversity, fairness and inclusion – known as dei – distribute the country evenly, according to a New York Times and Ipsos survey from January, before his inauguration: 48 percent want to eliminate such programs, while 47 percent supports them.
The same can be said for parts of the Middle Eastern policy of Mr. Trump. (Mr. Trump supported the help for Israel, while 53 percent said in the same study that the United States spend too much to support the country.) Deporting all illegal immigrants, a cornerstone of Mr Trump's immigration policy, has A small majority of support, with 55 percent who supports the idea.
Part of Mr. Trump's other policy is more popular: most American-accident 80 percent, including two-thirds of the Democrats-Zei that transgender women should not compete in sports sports according to the January poll. (Mr. Trump signed an executive order that kept their participation.) A larger share, about 87 percent, did not support authorized immigrants with a criminal record, according to the poll. (Mr. Trump signed a law in January that would deport immigrants without papers accused of a variety of crimes, from shoplift to murder.)
Other policy pushed by Mr Trump and conservative media as 'common sense' do not have a recent poll to assess their popularity, including the termination of the cent and requiring a photo -ID to vote.
The embrace of “Common Sense” has risen on Fox News, where the term was mentioned almost 500 times in January, according to data from Critical Menting, a media company, an increase of around 200 a month in the years before.
Some of the mentions on FOX News come from his own 'Common Sense Department', a segment organized by Trace Gallagher that responds to news based on what would dictate 'common sense'.
While Mr. Trump moved to dismantle United States Agency for International Development, which offers financing for humanitarian programs around the world, protests broke out and democratic legislators made rallies to support the group.
Mr Gallagher rejected the Fracas during a segment by emphasizing some programs that were financed by USAID: “Healthy sense would not describe this as foreign aid, but rather as a domestic Boondogle, a Boondogle of millions of dollars.”
Recent polls show that a majority of Americans – about 60 percent – support is aimed at problems at home instead of abroad, a shift from 2019, when Americans were evenly distributed over that question. (A poll for foreign aid expenditure, from 2014, also showed that 95 percent of respondents overestimated or did not know how much the United States spent on foreign aid. The correct answer: less than 1 percent of the federal budget.)
Mark Levin, a FOX News -Gastheer and close ally of Mr. Trump, the ultrasound between the White House and Fox News seemed to recognize when he raised the president's slogan on his show.
“What Trump represents is not radical, it is” common sense, “as he says,” said Mr Levin. “If he says 'common sense' for many of us, this means conservative. Because conservatively common sense. “
Ruth Igielnik And Christine Zhang contributed reporting.
