‘Fox & Friends’: Ainsley Earhardt Says Trump Supporters Are ‘Tired’ of Ongoing Iran War
What To Know
- Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt acknowledged that many Trump supporters are weary of the ongoing conflict with Iran.
- Earhardt argued that Republican voters want economic improvements ahead of the midterm elections.
- Public support for Trump’s military actions in Iran has declined in recent months even among his own base.
Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt admitted that many Donald Trump supporters are “tired” of his ongoing war with Iran and want the economy to get back on track ahead of the midterm elections.
Earhardt made the comments on Thursday’s (June 11) edition of Fox and Friends after chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst spoke with the president on the phone.
“Trey, what do you say to our viewers who love Donald Trump and support him and trust him… but they’re tired of this, and they see that the midterms are around the corner, they want our economy to get back on track and our gas prices to drop,” Earhardt said. “What do we need to do to get out?”
While Yingst claimed that Trump’s secret operation to move oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz has helped “stabilize oil prices,” the overall public sentiment towards the war continues to trend negatively.
As noted by RawStory, a CBS News-YouGov poll in March showed 84 percent of Republicans backed military action in Iran. However, by the end of March, this number dropped to 77 percent in a Fox News-Beacon Research survey. And an April Fox poll showed that overall support for Trump’s war was down to 45 percent, with 55 percent opposed.
Despite telling reporters outside Air Force One on Monday (June 8) that a peace deal could be signed within “two to three days,” Trump’s call with Yingst suggested the conflict is far from over. According to Yingst, Trump called the ceasefire “one of the worst” in history because Iran continued its attacks throughout.
When asked what would happen if Iran refused to sign a peace agreement, Yingst quoted the president as saying, “‘We’ll bomb the s*** out of them tomorrow night.'”
Earhardt’s remarks come just days after her Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade argued against the return of Confederate monuments. Kilmeade spoke out after a monument to Robert E. Lee was put back on display at a school campus in Charleston, South Carolina, following its removal in 2021.
“I’m not necessarily into seeing Robert E. Lee’s statue come back. He made a choice, and it was the wrong choice,” Kilmeade said, which appeared to surprise Earhardt.
Earhardt responded, “I’m surprised to hear you say that, because you always say, let’s not erase history.”
“Yeah, but I wouldn’t want to give a tribute to them,” Kilmeade replied. “I’m not saying forget what Robert E. Lee did well, but to have his statue back up as if it’s a tribute to him? He made a choice, and it was the wrong choice.”
You can watch the segment here.
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Well, the economy will most likely NOT improve at all, as long as donnie dips*it remains in the white house. He's a multiple bankrupted sorry excuse for a business person.
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Uh Huh. How many $Billions You got ? And for your information he just signed a GO that will help our deep sea fishermen and lower the price of seafood. I watched on FOX the Real News as both blue collar and company owners related some of the utterly Insane regulations of President AutoPen Biden. Crazy ! Well those regulations are gone as of today ! And Trump has and is about to roll back more of the Biden utterly insane regulations off of other industries. These will help blue collar workers and lower prices for consumers. You folks on the left can bash all you like but Trump is trying to Restore our country from all the terrible damage the Group President did to it. We had a very good economy under Trump in his first term and we will again. Plus we won’t have to worry about being Nuked by a bunch of Rabid Radical Islamist. Trump with Iran is doing what others before him didn’t have the courage to do. Yes it’s Temporarily caused gas prices to be very high. That’s acknowledged. But already crude oil prices are dropping and Iran will sign this weekend and they will drop allot and rapidly. If Iran doesn’t sign woe be to them because Trump is tired of their stalling. After the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan Biden didn’t have a war going on. Afghanistan ended very early in his term. Yet the economy was just as bad, worse in some areas. Trump left him a very good economy from his first term. So what was the excuse for President AutoPen ? Answer the New Green Deal !
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Now I don’t know this for a fact and I’ll go ahead and say that up front. But I’ve read where people who Do know told a story of Trump and his beginnings in industry. His Father gave him $10 Million and said if you don’t make this produce many fold in a period of two years you will Not be my successor when I die. Now $10 Mil is huge to us regular folks but that’s pocket change to a Billionaire. As I understand it he turned an Over 50% profit in those two years ! YES he had a couple of bankruptcies on some of his businesses but that’s not as uncommon among Billionaires as you might think. Google the histories of some of them. He’s made way more than he’s lost. In his second term he’s made deals with many foreign investors bringing in $Trillions that will soon equate to Jobs !! The last quarter showed a waaaay higher New jobs gained than the Predicted number. Saw it on Fox. Fake News Won’t show info. like that because it hurts the Leftist narrative. Fox shows news that either won’t be shown at all or will get One lightning fast mention on Fake News MSM !
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