{"id":67000,"date":"2025-08-08T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67000"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:14:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:14:23","slug":"uh-oh-fox-news-op-ed-tells-the-truth-about-trumps-awful-economy-and-broken-promises-aka-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67000","title":{"rendered":"UH-OH! Fox News Op-Ed Tells the Truth About Trump&#8217;s Awful Economy and Broken Promises (AKA Lies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past six months much of the mainstream media has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for indifference to the glaring severity of Donald Trump&#8217;s cognitive deficiencies. While he embarks on daily excursions into rambling incoherence, spine-chilling ignorance, and unabashed lies, the press has largely failed to adequately report the measure of his mental decline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=UH-OH! Fox News Op-Ed Tells the Truth About Trump's Awful Economy and Broken Promises (AKA Lies)%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67000\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=UH-OH! Fox News Op-Ed Tells the Truth About Trump's Awful Economy and Broken Promises (AKA Lies)%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67000\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-foxnews-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump baby with Fox News logo\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63812\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a result, we see Trump repeatedly bragging that he has cut drug prices by 1,500% (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fact-check-trump-prescription-drug-prices-drop-b3e5bf8a98310de45e39d3911d112979\" target=\"_blank\">which is mathematically impossible<\/a>), that his taxes\/tariffs have brought in hundreds of billions of dollars (that are paid by American consumers), that he has personally ended half a dozen wars (in his cartoon brain), and weighing in on the most important issues of the day, such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66816\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert being canceled<\/a><\/strong> and Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s jeans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66927\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Cognitive Weakness is on Display in a Psycho Sydney Sweeney Rant that Goes Way Off Track<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of this makes it somewhat surprise that a less than flattering <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/trump-breaks-day-one-promise-lower-costs-prices-surge-across-america-first-six-months\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a><\/strong> was published by Fox News Friday morning. The article featured the headline: <em>&#8220;Trump Breaks &#8216;Day One&#8217; Promise to Lower Costs as Prices Surge Across America in First Six Months&#8221;<\/em> While that isn&#8217;t exactly breaking news to anyone who has been paying attention, it is outside of the political lanes that Fox News generally straddles. The article began&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The defining promise of Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign was lower costs on &#8216;Day One.&#8217; He broke it.  The first six months of this administration have been marked by ever-higher prices. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign trail promises sounded too good to be true, because they were.  Trump committed to &#8216;end&#8217; inflation, cut energy costs &#8216;in half,&#8217; make health care more affordable, and that Americans would see &#8216;drastic price reductions&#8217; and cheaper groceries.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of those promises were fulfilled. Although Trump claimed credit for succeeding on all counts, without ever providing a shred of evidence to support his claims. In fact, when data was revealed that proved how badly he has performed, he fired the those responsible for providing the data, and ordered a his regime to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66973\" target=\"_blank\">take over the data gathering agencies and reshape them to his liking<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s notable that this Fox News editorial, authored jointly by a former Bush aide and a former Biden aide, appeared only on the Fox website. It has not been reported on their cable network. To the contrary, the network&#8217;s reliably Trump-fluffing sycophants have obediently spewed the dishonest propaganda prepared for them by the White House. Nevertheless, expect Trump to freak out and call Fox <em>&#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump was hard at work at his usual post &#8211; dropping ludicrous comments on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66938\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>. in an excerpt from a tediously long tirade about tariffs and court rulings, he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/32423\" target=\"_blank\">raged<\/a><\/strong> that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If a Radical Left Court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth creation and influence the U.S.A. has ever seen, it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and honor. It would be 1929 all over again, a GREAT DEPRESSION!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To reiterate, the <em>&#8220;massive sums of money&#8221;<\/em> that he&#8217;s ranting about are paid by American consumers. And his efforts to instill fear of a 1929 style <em>&#8220;GREAT DEPRESSION&#8221;<\/em> are the typical tactics of aspiring authoritarians to frighten the masses into submission. In reality, the tariffs are inflationary and need to be withdrawn. And the courts are merely being asked to uphold the Constitution that stipulates that only Congress can impose tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>It would be helpful if Fox News would expose their viewers to the facts revealed in the editorial. But don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for that to happen. More broadly, it would be helpful for the media to report on Trump&#8217;s mental health, or lack thereof. They seemed obsessed with covering President Biden&#8217;s age-related imperfections, but they are brazenly ignoring the far worse maladies of Trump whose madness is undeniable, and who is currently in a position to do much greater harm.<\/p>\n<p>WTF are they waiting for? Trump to start a nuclear war? Because he has already talked about it. And in the meantime, he&#8217;s conspiring to amass tyrannical power, incarcerate opponents, take over city and state governments, rig elections, and shut down the free press. The threat is real and is bearing down upon us now. There is literally no time to waste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66870\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Unloads Dozens of Deranged Comments in a Morning Rage that Confirms His Mental Infirmity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66839\" target=\"_blank\">The King of Conspiracy Theories Whines that Democrats Don\u2019t Talk Enough About How Awesome He Is<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66789\" target=\"_blank\">SUNDAY FUNNIES: Toddler Trump Dumps a Bucket of Bullpucky in a Pitiful Ploy to Deflect From Epstein<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past six months much of the mainstream media has demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for indifference to the glaring severity of Donald Trump&#8217;s cognitive deficiencies. While he embarks on daily excursions into rambling incoherence, spine-chilling ignorance, and unabashed lies, the press has largely failed to adequately report the measure of his mental decline. 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