David Folkenflik

are pushing back on Trump on this, reflecting in the terms of the Wall Street Journal's, I think, rigorously reported news pages, reflecting their own coverage, but also in the other elements, fulfilling their brand promise to various constituencies they're trying to take care of and also reflecting what Rupert Murdoch really wants, which is to kind of gently ease Trump into what he thinks is the right thing, predictable, stable markets and not trade wars.

Well, you've seen these big headlines in Wall Street Journal reporting, you know, particularly on fears about chief executives and finance chiefs and real concerns about how consumers are hurting up and down the household income levels and how they're accelerating fears about what they can do. Take the New York Post's front page last week.

Well, you've seen these big headlines in Wall Street Journal reporting, you know, particularly on fears about chief executives and finance chiefs and real concerns about how consumers are hurting up and down the household income levels and how they're accelerating fears about what they can do. Take the New York Post's front page last week.

Well, you've seen these big headlines in Wall Street Journal reporting, you know, particularly on fears about chief executives and finance chiefs and real concerns about how consumers are hurting up and down the household income levels and how they're accelerating fears about what they can do. Take the New York Post's front page last week.

You saw this huge cartoon of Trump plunging straight down the incline of a roller coaster headline, Buckle Up, Markets Plunge. You saw the Wall Street Journal's editorial page talking about tariffs. They called his moves on Canada and Mexico the dumbest trade war in history a few weeks ago and sort of doubled up a few days ago, repeating the line again.

You saw this huge cartoon of Trump plunging straight down the incline of a roller coaster headline, Buckle Up, Markets Plunge. You saw the Wall Street Journal's editorial page talking about tariffs. They called his moves on Canada and Mexico the dumbest trade war in history a few weeks ago and sort of doubled up a few days ago, repeating the line again.

You saw this huge cartoon of Trump plunging straight down the incline of a roller coaster headline, Buckle Up, Markets Plunge. You saw the Wall Street Journal's editorial page talking about tariffs. They called his moves on Canada and Mexico the dumbest trade war in history a few weeks ago and sort of doubled up a few days ago, repeating the line again.

And then there's a very gentle explainer by Fox News anchor Brett Baier explaining why tariffs don't really work the way the president claims that they actually end up really hitting the American consumer. And even Fox host Maria Bartiromo, a true Trump loyalist. Here's what it sounded like when she mixed it up recently with Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

And then there's a very gentle explainer by Fox News anchor Brett Baier explaining why tariffs don't really work the way the president claims that they actually end up really hitting the American consumer. And even Fox host Maria Bartiromo, a true Trump loyalist. Here's what it sounded like when she mixed it up recently with Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

And then there's a very gentle explainer by Fox News anchor Brett Baier explaining why tariffs don't really work the way the president claims that they actually end up really hitting the American consumer. And even Fox host Maria Bartiromo, a true Trump loyalist. Here's what it sounded like when she mixed it up recently with Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

And that's somebody who goes out of her way to frame things in the best possible way for Trump most of the time. She just got an appointment from Trump to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

And that's somebody who goes out of her way to frame things in the best possible way for Trump most of the time. She just got an appointment from Trump to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

And that's somebody who goes out of her way to frame things in the best possible way for Trump most of the time. She just got an appointment from Trump to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

I think you look at the four Ds, defend, deflect, deny, disregard. You've seen that in a bunch of right-wing pro-Trump outlets. Take Newsmax's Rob Finnerty. He recently debated Ontario Premier Doug Ford about Canada's reaction to Trump's tariff moves.

I think you look at the four Ds, defend, deflect, deny, disregard. You've seen that in a bunch of right-wing pro-Trump outlets. Take Newsmax's Rob Finnerty. He recently debated Ontario Premier Doug Ford about Canada's reaction to Trump's tariff moves.

I think you look at the four Ds, defend, deflect, deny, disregard. You've seen that in a bunch of right-wing pro-Trump outlets. Take Newsmax's Rob Finnerty. He recently debated Ontario Premier Doug Ford about Canada's reaction to Trump's tariff moves.

There are other right wing and pro-Trump sites that simply are focusing the blame on former President Joe Biden for whatever is going wrong now or might in the future.

There are other right wing and pro-Trump sites that simply are focusing the blame on former President Joe Biden for whatever is going wrong now or might in the future.

There are other right wing and pro-Trump sites that simply are focusing the blame on former President Joe Biden for whatever is going wrong now or might in the future.

Well, I think these things are both a leading and a lagging indicator. They tell you where these outlets think their audiences are. And in the case of Fox, where they hope to get the president to, because they know few people are watching Fox and the media more closely than he does.