Fox & Friends Hosts Discuss Their Biggest Fan in Rare Interview: ‘We’re Not in the Policy Business’
Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt and Steve Doocy all provided comment for a recent profile on Fox & Friends and how their show clearly resonates with Donald Trump.
Most political observers would probably agree that the three Fox hosts hold significant influence over Trump, seeing as the president watches every morning, tweets about the show, and adopts their talking points on a regular basis. That, combined with their ratings, makes for an influence that earned them a spot on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Most Powerful People in New York Media” list.
David Bauder of the Associated Press spoke to all three hosts about this, and they mostly insisted that Trump relates well with their target audience and they don’t really tell him what to do.
“I guess in the back of my mind I occasionally think he could be watching,” Earhardt said. “But it doesn’t affect anything that I say, my opinions or how I report the news.”
Doocy offered a similar comment, saying “We give our opinion. We’re not in the policy business.”
Despite their insistence otherwise, there is a clear feedback loop that exists between Trump and his favorite show. Fox & Friends executive producer Gavin Hadden also spoke to Bauder and claimed he’s unaware of any time where guests tried directly appealing to Trump while on TV.
“We put the same show on the air that we have for years,” Hadden said. “We’re trying to have a conversation with the American people. We’re not trying to lecture them. We’re trying to relay the stories to them that we think they care about most. And if one of those people happens to be in the White House listening, good for him.”
This week on Fox, there have been at least two guests on the network who tried speaking directly to Trump while on air.
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