If there's one thing Fox News knows for sure, it's that a U.S. president should absolutely never agree to meet with foreign dictators — unless that president is Donald Trump.
Case in point: Ever since President Trump accepted an invitation from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to meet without any preconditions, Fox News has been touting the diplomatic brilliance of the move. It's a drastic pivot from the network's analysis when former President Barack Obama considered doing so, a NowThis video showed.
Clips from years past show both hosts and guests on the network slamming Obama for being open to meeting with Kim. "He would meet with some of these madmen without any preconditions," said an aghast Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential candidate, of Obama.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
But now, Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity appear ready to embrace the idea of negotiating with the isolated nation. Hannity lauded Trump's "major foreign policy breakthrough," while others applauded the "stunning diplomatic triumph" and even floated the idea of the move earning Trump a Nobel Peace Prize.
When Obama was in office, Fox News pundits called the idea of talking North Korea out of its nuclear weapons program "fanciful," and said it was a "bad idea" to meet with "crazy men" like Kim. Trump's decision, on the other hand, is bound to be "magnificent for the people of Korea" and "magnificent for the world." Watch the rest of the flip-flopping, compiled by NowThis, below. Summer Meza
Continue reading for free
We hope you're enjoying The Week's refreshingly open-minded journalism.
Subscribed to The Week? Register your account with the same email as your subscription.
-
Why a historic Mayorkas impeachment might not matterTalking Point House Republicans have made ousting President Biden's Homeland Security Secretary a major priority regardless of the political risks
-
Why are House Republicans backing off immigration reform?
Today's Big Question Presidential politics are at play
-
'Mixing new technology and new laws is always a fraught business'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
How would a second Trump presidency affect Britain?
Today's Big Question Re-election of Republican frontrunner could threaten UK security, warns former head of secret service
-
Bipartisan group pitches Child Tax Credit expansion
Speed Read Congressional negotiators have unveiled their nearly $80 billion tax plan — now they have to pass it.
-
'Rwanda plan is less a deterrent and more a bluff'
Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
Rishi Sunak faces 'Conservative meltdown' over Rwanda bill
Speed Read Boris Johnson and Lee Anderson join Tory rebels who want migrant policy strengthened
-
Boycott Maldives: Modi holiday snaps ignite row between India and island nation
Indian tourists threaten to stay away after critical comments made by Maldivian ministers
-
Chris Christie slams Trump, disparages other GOP rivals as he exits presidential race
Speed Read The GOP presidential field's harshest (and only) Trump critic bows out swinging
-
Keir Starmer pledges to end voters' exhaustion with Westminster
Speed Read Labour leader kickstarts election campaigning with promise of 'national renewal'
-
South Korea's opposition leader stabbed in the neck
Speed Read Lee Jae-myung is recovering from surgery following the attack
