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Fox’s Speech Snub

Donald Trump wanted a national conversation about election fraud. Fox News aired the speech, then spent the next morning talking about anything but.

Brett LoGiurato
Brett LoGiurato

Jul 17, 2026

Fox’s Speech Snub

Fox’s Speech Snub

Donald Trump wanted a national conversation about election fraud. Fox News aired the speech, then spent the next morning talking about anything but.

Brett LoGiurato
Brett LoGiurato

Jul 17, 2026

Fox’s Speech Snub

At 6 a.m. Friday, “Fox & Friends” kicked off with a standard rundown of the day's biggest headlines: U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, wildfire smoke drifting south from Canada, renewed flooding in Texas, and a food-safety investigation involving a parasite outbreak linked to produce. “Can we eat salad again?” Brian Kilmeade joked. “I never stopped,” Lawrence Jones replied. “Lettuce is so dirty,” Ainsley Earhardt chimed in.

Not included in the rundown: the President of the United States’s preferred topic du jour.

Just hours earlier, Donald Trump had delivered a nationally televised primetime address from the White House that he billed as a seismic announcement on election security, reviving many of his longstanding lies about the 2020 election. Yet, over the course of three hours of Trump’s favorite morning show…

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