The rapid focus policies of President Trump are remodeling the federal government and, for Fox News, they are simply pursuing “common sense”.
It is worth implementing “daring and sometimes painful measures”, said a guest of Fox News, to get to “common sense”. The end of Mr. Trump so far, another fox expert has concluded, could be summarized with that simple deployment: it is a “restoration of common sense”.
“Trump is not radical – he is only radically changing our country to normal,” said Jesse Watters during Monday’s episode of “Jesse Watters in the early evening”. He said that the plans of Mr. Trump to “deport migrants” and cut waste were “all the moves of common sense”.
The flood of the comments of “common sense” on Fox News echoes to the language that Mr. Trump and his new administration used to justify his policies – many of which have deeply divided the country, have shown the polls. The administration has implemented the slogan to support a series of actions, from prohibiting paper straws to reversed efforts to stem climate change and described its first weeks as a “revolution in common sense”.
“It’s easy to do a good job when you act in common sense and you are telling the truth,” said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary of the White House, in a recent briefing.
The shared language reflects the in -depth ties between the government and the media on the right, in particular Fox News, by far the most popular cable news network of the nation. Almost 20 ex -ex -Fox News of the Administration, even at the highest levels, with the former master of house Pete Hegseth who conquered the Pentagon and Sean Duffy at the helm of the transport department. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter -in -law, received his show on the net.
Harrison Fields, the main vice printing secretary of the White House, said that “common sense” was not a new term for Mr. Trump.
“No survey is needed to find out that the common sense of President Trump, America promises for the first time is wildly popular among the American people – The test is in its historical victory,” said Fields.
The suggestion of Fox News and the White House is that the “common sense” policies of Mr. Trump are not only the right ones, but they also have a broad support between the vast majority of Americans. The survey offered a more complicated picture.
The efforts of Mr. Trump to prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion – known as gods – uniformly divide the country, according to a survey by the New York Times and Ipsos since January, before his inauguration: 48 % want to eliminate such programs while 47 % support them.
The same can be said for parts of the Middle East of Mr. Trump. (Mr. Trump supported aid for Israel, while 53 percent in the same survey said that the United States were spending too much to support the country.) Deportation of all illegal immigrants, a milestone of the immigration policy of Mr. Trump , has a poor majority of support, with 55 percent who supported the idea.
Some of the other Trump policies are more popular: most of the Americans-circles 80 %, including two thirds of the Democrats-said that transgender women should not be authorized to compete in women’s sports, according to the January survey . (Mr. Trump signed an executive order that held their participation.) A greater share, about 87 %, supports the deportation of unauthorized immigrants with a judicial box, found the survey. (Mr. Trump signed a law in January who would have expelled immigrants without documents accused of a variety of crimes, from heated to murder.)
Other policies pushed such as “common sense” by Mr. Trump and the conservative media do not have recent surveys to evaluate their popularity, including the end of the penny and the need to vote on an identity document with photos.
The embrace of “Common Sense” increased on Fox News, in which the term was mentioned almost 500 times in January, according to the Critical Milk data, a media monitoring company, an increase compared to about 200 per month of previous years.
Some of the mentions on Fox News come from his “Department of common sense”, a segment that began to transmit during the Biden administration and presents Trace Gallagher who reacts to the news based on what “common sense” would have dictated.
While Trump moved to dismantle the United States Agency for international development, which provides funding for humanitarian programs all over the world, protests and democratic legislators broke out gatters gatters to support the group.
Gallagher rejected the Fracas during a segment highlighting some programs financed by Usaid: “common sense would not describe it as foreign aid but rather a domestic Badogggle, a multimillionary Badoggle”.
Recent polls show that most Americans – about 60 percent – claims to focus on the problems at home rather than abroad, a transition since 2019, when the Americans have been divided evenly on this question. (A survey on shopping for foreign aid, since 2014, also showed that 95 percent of interviewees overrated or did not know how much the United States spent on foreign aid. The correct answer: less than 1 % of the federal budget .)
Mark Levin, a Fox News conductor and a nearby ally of Mr. Trump, seemed to recognize the echo between the White House and the Fox News when he raised the president of the president in his show.
“What Trump is proposing is not radical, he is” common sense “, as he says,” Levin said. “When he says” common sense “, for many of us, it means conservative. Because the conservative is common sense.”
Ruth Igielnik AND Christine Zhang Contributed relationships.