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Bulwark Takes

The Fox-Trump White House Merger Is Complete

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Tim Miller talk about how Fox News has become an extension of the Trump White House, with cabinet members flooding the network to win Trump's approval or to spread propaganda? The lines are blurring between media and government.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:55.5

who appeared on Fox News.

0:57.8

And then we're going to play two of these clips.

1:00.3

Howard Lutnik was one of six cabinet members appearing live on Fox News between the hours

1:06.4

of 4 p.m. and 10 p.m.

1:07.6

So that's six cabinet members in a six-hour window, along with Attorney General

1:11.3

Pam Bondi, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Education Secretary Lyndon, Transportation

1:16.6

Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ome. On top of that, Fox News says interviews

1:22.2

with two of the White House's most powerful aides, Stephen Miller and Karen Levitt, and part two of an

1:27.1

interview with

1:27.7

Doge's Elon Musk.

1:29.1

So that's nine people on Fox prime time in one evening.

1:33.6

That's crazy.

1:34.8

That's crazy.

1:35.7

I mean, were they holding the people in power to account?

1:40.5

Yes, of course.

1:41.2

That's exactly.

1:42.4

I don't know, man.

1:43.1

I don't know how much deeper the marriage could be

1:45.5

that would surprise me like if you had told me that fox has a booker embedded outside of caroline

1:53.4

levitt's office they might as well like that i would say okay that makes sense to me like i don't know. Or if you told me that, like,

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