{"id":48797,"date":"2021-03-18T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48797"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:36:48","slug":"has-trumps-influence-on-fox-news-and-america-dwindled-to-an-impotent-trickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48797","title":{"rendered":"Has Trump’s Influence on Fox News – and America – Dwindled to an Impotent Trickle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been two months since Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States. In that time of national celebration and relief, Donald Trump has retreated to his Mar-a-Lago bunker, emerging only briefly for a speech at the Conservative Political Action Cult<\/a><\/strong> (CPAC), and a phone-in to Senior Fox News Trump-fluffer<\/a><\/strong>, Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n

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Trump is either suffering a severe depression at having been rejected by millions of voters, or he’s he’s hiding from legal process servers and state prosecutors. And while he’s cowering in near obscurity, unable to tweet his pent up outrages<\/a><\/strong>, his grip on the political world is slipping away. This shift to irrelevancy is evident in how the media covers his recent remarks about the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

Trump spent months promoting the vaccine development and bragging about accomplishments that exist only in his mind. After which he clammed up and refused to encourage his cult followers to get vaccinated. This week that changed after prodding from politicians, the press, and even Dr. Fauci. “I would recommend it to a lot of people that don’t want to get it,”<\/em> Trump told Bartiromo. “And a lot of those people voted for me, frankly.”<\/em> For some reason Trump seems to be proud that his voters are uniquely ignorant about the wisdom of being immunized.<\/p>\n

Despite Trump’s sudden interest in endorsing the vaccine, his former confederates in the media are not falling in line. Tucker Carlson is doing extended segments casting doubts on the safety, efficacy, and necessity of vaccinations. Sean Hannity immediately began having doubts about the vaccine after Biden was inaugurated. Laura Ingraham, in a reference to public health experts, told her audience that “it’s time to retire or just ignore the control freaks.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This was all summed up nicely in a clip from The Daily Show<\/em> that revealed how “Fox News isn\u2019t explicitly telling its viewers not to get vaccinated, it\u2019s just questioning whether they should over and over again”<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Fox News isn\u2019t explicitly telling its viewers not to get vaccinated, it\u2019s just questioning whether they should over and over again pic.twitter.com\/4OVtyBluoS<\/a><\/p>\n

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n