# Podcast #205 - Fox News is Stumbling Trying to Cheerlead for Trump's War

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Podcast: [Decoding Fox News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-fox-news-5717515)
Published: 2026-03-26T18:49:16+00:00
Episode link: https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/p/podcast-250-fox-news-is-stumbling
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Much like the seams in any suit jacket worn by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Fox News is barely keeping it together. The network still can’t get its message straight regarding Trump’s disastrous war in Iran. Fox is following the lead of its glorious leader, a man who appeared to act impulsively, when he decided to attack a country of 92 million people with one of the largest militaries in the Middle East. Trump is highly skilled at selling himself, at least to his cultish base of followers, as a powerful leader who can change the world through his force of will. He is a bumbling fool when it comes to getting Americans excited about his flights of fancy - conquering Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, managing Venezuela, crushing Cuba and destroying the government of Iran. Trump has also failed to excited the masses about some of his economic policies such as broad sweeping tariffs on imports or the acquisition of Venezuelan oil which the president called ‘garbage tar’ when he was on the campaign trail. Trump makes no real attempt to sell the need for military conflict to the American public. The average American couldn’t identify Nicolás Maduro, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Ali Khamenei the deceased Iranian supreme leader or his son Mojtaba Khamenei in a line up. In comparison former president George W. Bush and his administration pitched the Iraq War for nearly a year and a half before the first shots were fired. Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay became household names. Their excessive lifestyle and corruption along with their many crimes against humanity and the people of Iran were drilled into the minds of farmers, teachers and factory workers across the country. Bush was also exploiting a grief-stricken country as he falsely connected the horrific terro…

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