Fox News Host: There's Not a Huge 'Anti-Trump Appetite'
By: Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Mediaite)
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As "No Kings" protests swelled in numbers across the country, Fox News's Kayleigh McEnany doubted that the crowds were as large as even her own reporter claimed.
"I've got to be honest, the Trump rallies look bigger than what we are seeing," McEnany said on Saturday. "Not sure there's a huge anti-Trump appetite here across the country."
McEnany's comments came just seconds after Fox News reporter Madison Scarpino reported live from Atlanta.
"Organizers want to break records — they expect millions of Americans to come and protest," she said. "Just here at the Atlanta rally, organizers expect up to 10,000 people. That's checking out from what we are seeing so far. You see this sea of people holding signs, chanting, several speakers so far, and they are fired up."
After Scarpino's report, McEnany brought on MAGA influencer Nick Sortor to preview what she expected to be a "violent" night in Portland, Oregon.
"You're in Portland and it is a different beast and it gets pretty violent there at night," McEnany said by way of introduction.
Sortor was recently arrested in Portland after stomping out an American flag that was on fire and tussling with protesters who targeted him "for being conservative." He was not charged.
"It is really possible we could see pretty violent stuff happen today," Sortor told McEnany. "I hate to say that but there was nothing planned here last night. It was just a normal Friday night and it got this close to being a total out-of-control riot. And like I said, people drive by and honk. It is 8:00 in the morning on Saturday, waking all these people up, that is the frustrating part."
"The poor residents," McEnany said.
Viral videos out of Portland have shown protesters dressed in inflatable frog, unicorn, and shark costumes to peacefully troll ICE agents outside their facilities.
One frog-clad protester told Fox 12 Oregon, "They don't know how to react to people with humor and silliness, so why not try that?"
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I'm sure the bimbo will be only the first of many Trump apologists making the argument that the No Kings rallies were not importantly big. Unfortunately there will be some photos of smaller demonstrations in smaller cities that they will use to make the point, and some unattentive or dim witted people will believe them.
Yesterday should be the end of 2500 rallies on the same day, the next rallies should be fewer in number and concentrated in a half dozen locations around the country. Six rallies of a million people each on the same day will provide a more dramatic visual and maybe get some Trump-lite supporters attention.
They’ve all caught Trump’s diseased ability to look at 10 people in inflatable costumes and call them a violent, rioting mob, or look at 100,000 people and say there’s no one there. It all depends on today’s political agenda.
75 million people voted for cackler. A few hundred thousand loser, almost all white and geriatric morons walked down their streets to protest something they have no idea about.
Question for those morons…..if Trump wanted to be a king, do you think he would allow those morons to display themselves in public? Also, would he not havee abolished Congress and not allow a free press? I guess their mission is successful. Good job, morons.
I watched a few clips of the ‘march’ in Chicago and saw zero minority faces.
it is well known that Trump is more popular with minorities now than ever and even they think those that embarrassed themselves are
morons.
If Trump was a normal, halfway sane , president there wouldnt have been this in Chicago yesterday.
Protests are always a minority gripe posing as a majority. If we want to really gauge the mood of the country, we have two off-year elections coming up very soon. Both in blue states (NJ & Virginia) and in both cases the dems are favored.
Only a few weeks from now we'll have an idea where the country is at.
Anti war protests convinced congresspeople to stop supporting the Vietnam War.
But that was back when politicians were more closely tied to their constituents than today. Today politicians are more closely tied to their party than the people. I doubt it this will make a big difference in Washington.
And from the news I've read, as many as 7 million people joined the protests across all 2600 protests around the country.
That was the great generation that loved their kids way too much. Those anti-Vietnam War protests began when university students lost their deferment and burned their draft cards. Nothing to be proud of.
You are right though, that shit influenced policy.
However, we no longer have liberal democrats in the WH. We have the very thing we needed back then: A Counterrevolution.
We are going to put a stop to it.
There is no US president in history that had millions of people show up in organized protests against him personally. No Kings = no Donald Trump in office.
So? Will yesterday make any difference in Washington? I doubt it will make a big impact on Trump himself. It may give the Democrats some hope, but by election day it will mostly be forgotten.
Trump is a lunatic who will only get worse. And the protests will get bigger and more frequent. The country is not going to go back to the 1950's Vic, as much as you may wish for it.
Unless Trump changes his ways by election day there will have been many more protests and larger.
John, you just made a point, which is that even a minority can effect a change in policy. I am saying that the country has had a lot of history with the left. After LBJ effectively gave up on being reelected, the nation was so fed up it voted for Richard Nixon in a landslide. After that we had a lot of Republican Presidents with brief interludes for Jimmy Carter which produced Ronald Reagan and HW Bush and then the lone election that was determined by a third-party candidate. (Ross Perot) That produced another interlude with Bill Clinton, who was forced to act as a moderate.
The 2008 financial crisis doomed the GOP even though democrat policies on housing caused it. That marked the return of the far left under the candidate who pretended briefly to be a moderate: Barack Obama.
Trust me on this one: This country has had it with the left. I urge you to pay close attention to the two elections I referenced.
Nixon got 43.4 % of the popular vote in 1968.
There is a big difference between protesting against something that is actually happening and something made up by a few to make money off the masses.
Most of the idiots marching had no idea what they were marching for. They just knew they were going to get a paycheck when it was fone/
I saw a report yesterday that a ‘protest’ in Times Square broke up at precisely 1pm.
That was probably the time the idiots were paid up until and no way they were going to do something they had no idea what they were doing and not get paid for it.
A fine example of posted bullshit. The idea that most of the protesters were hired is ridiculous; the lack of supporting evidence further illustrates the bullshit.
Here is one young man that tells the truth about these idiotic "protests", and guarantee there are millions more just like hime.
He call most leftists out for what they are....idiots.
Here is another one
This is a scene in NY after the paid protesters time ran out and did not get paid for any more time.
I was expecting to see trash all over the place but i remembered they weren’t there very long so that explains that.
A lot of leftists at the No Kings "protest"
It is humorous to see how easily triggered right wingers are by real Americans engaging in their 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech, something Trump and his cultists detest.
The only ones that are triggered are those that think Trump is/wants to be a king.
Mybe you can answer these questions...
What has Trump done that makes him a king. Leftists and left wing reactionaries say he wants to be but can't define what he has done to be a king.
If Trump wants to be a king, why are you on the left allowed to come out to "protest" him? A real king would have shut them down in a heartbeat.
If Trump wants to be a king, why as he not tried to abolish Congress and install all his own people only?
If Trump wants to be king, why are publications like the NYT, channels like CNN and MSNBC, that constantly publish anti Trump rhetoric, allowed to continue to do so?
The left and their reactionaries need to get over themselves. They were beaten last November and Trump is doing exactly what he was voted to do.
If you knew how authoritarians often slowly infiltrate and take over societies, you wouldn't be asking those questions. Trump has effectively abolished Congress by taking advantage of his sycophantic congressional supporters to rule by decree. He has sought to curb the free press with a deluge of frivolous but intimidatory lawsuits and threats. The plethora of autocratic/authoritarian efforts by the Trump regime is too vast to list here, so I suggest you make the effort to educate yourself, which would seem to be a far better use of your time than your seemingly endless hours of musings on here.
And, speaking of educating yourself, you have been informed countless times about the correct definition of the word "reactionaries" in the political context. Your incessant misuse of the word is obviously a wilful pretense. I can't think of any reason to respond to any of your comments in the future that persist in that kind of abject foolishness other than to designate them as ceaseless trolling.
Pure reactionary hyperbole. Democrats have tried to hold up EVERYTHING Republicans were voted for to do, including approving dozens of appointees 10 months into his term.
"He has sought to curb the free press with a deluge of frivolous but intimidatory lawsuits and threats. "
More reactionary hyperbole as he has sued, settled or won several lawsuits against media sources for defamation.
"The plethora of autocratic/authoritarian efforts by the Trump regime is too vast to list here,"
In other words, I was caught making a claim so stupid, knowing I can't back any of it up.
The rest of your rant was nothing more than a deflection from your non answers.
It is as if all bad moves by Trump are ignored.
Trump is taking steps to (try to) stop dissent like this in the future. Mitigating dissent is part of his modus operandi.
How, exactly, does a PotUS abolish Congress? That said, Trump is doing the next best thing by getting the GoP to sycophantically bow to his wishes. He has in effect disabled checks and balances from Congress. (Amazing and sickening that this was even possible.)
What do you think Trump has been doing all along? He has been trying with intimidation, lawsuits, etc. to stop the press from publishing anything but good about him.
SMH
The ease with which MAGA people like you seek to dehumanize and dismiss your fellow Americans, or anyone else, is one of the things we were protesting against.
More likely, you have no idea. Probably because you’re afraid to hear it and consider it.
When power is seized illegally, it doesn’t happen all at once. Trump is already doing those exact things, when the numbers are smaller and he can get away with it. As this continues, he will seek to wield even more such control.
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Are you sure you want to hear this? I’m not really in the mood to be trolled today.
Same right back atcha.....
Yeah, that’s what I expected. You don’t actually want to look at it. Your bubble would pop.
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considering trump is more popular than Obama was at this point in his second term, it’s a reasonable assumption. But of course, that doesn’t reckon with the reality that the Democratic Party has a persecution complex and believes the President is not allowed to implement policies people voted for and that are within his legal authority because they don’t like them.
This is a good explanation of that mindset:
I have to somewhat agree with you. Most MAGAs voted for him in 2024 with the expectation he would do whatever he wanted, because they are in a cult. If they were not in a cult they would admit he tried to steal the 2020 election and the republican Party would have run him out of town on a rail. MAGA voters are by far the biggest problem in America today because they are Trump's jet fuel.