<p>Fox News started last week dutifully hyping up Trump’s proposed White House ballroom. On Monday on every show, I covered Trump’s favorite vanity project was championed as a life saving measure that would protect the president and top-ranking cabinet officials from the bullets of a would be assassin.</p><p>By Tuesday the network had moved on. Fox News executives are known for obsessively tracking audience reaction. I suspect that even the most diehard Fox News fans were just not that excited over an enormous columned building their glorious leader cannot stop talking about.</p><p>The network switched its focus to the third attempt on the president’s life along with King Charles’ visit and the White House state dinner.</p><p>Blurry surveillance video footage of Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting, attempting to rush past a throng of armed security personnel was far more compelling than discussions about giant event spaces and drone-proof roofs.</p><p>By mid-week the network made a pivot to scolding ‘Liberal lunatics’ for promoting conspiracy theories about the latest attempt on the president’s life.</p><p>Since I started this project in February 2022, I’ve seen Fox News hosts promote conspiracy theories such as cultural Marxism, the great replacement, the great reset, birtherism, various false stories about Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden along with secret plots to promote insects as a main source of protein.</p><p>Meanwhile the conflict with Iran was relegated to a minor story. At least twice last week Jesse Watters declared that the war was over only to start cheerleading for a swift victory the next day.</p><p>Fox News hosts were also downright gleeful about the recent Supreme Court ruling that severely weakened The Voting Rights Act.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">decodingfoxnews.substack.com/subscribe</a>