cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44241885
March 8, 2026
Fox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted six flag-draped transfer cases carrying the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran.
The president had stirred outrage online by failing to remove his Trump-brand white hat during the ritual homecoming at Dover air force base in Delaware on Saturday for six army reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait.
I’m going to go a different direction than a lot of the other commenters and say this is a bigger issue not because of the hat, but because a major television network that claims to be news edited their coverage of a political event to run cover for the sitting president, because the network knew that the president’s actions would be received as disrespectful by the audience of that network, who are also a large voting block of the sitting president.
And in doing so not only didn’t show the president doing embarrassing and disrespectful things, it showed entirely different coffins. Friends and family may have seen that footage and thought it was their loved one only to learn their chosen propaganda-entertainment-news channel thought their coffins were interchangeable props.
To be fair, Fox News has argued in court that it’s entertainment, not news.