Foreign Policy

Substitute Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire channels the supposed fret of foreign leaders that "there could be a return to Trump or Trumpism if Biden, let's say, serves only one term and Donald Trump or someone like him follows him into office."

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening networks didn’t seem to care that President Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL while behaving like a Russian crony and approving the country’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 

Retirement plans warn of a “penalty for early withdrawal.” Might that also apply to the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan? If you set aside the victory by coalition forces that expelled Saddam Hussein's overmatched troops from Kuwait in 1991, the U.S. has not won a war since World War II. Not in Korea. Not in Vietnam and now, says President Biden, Afghanistan is a war we…

On Monday, CBS This Morning unbelievably attempted to blame the Trump administration for Cuba’s economy crumbing after decades of the island nation’s brutal, corrupt communist regime oppressing its people. The broadcast then urged the Biden administration to appease the authoritarian government by removing sanctions on the dictatorship. 

Under close questioning by New Day co-host Brianna Keilar, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby doesn't deny the Taliban's claim that it has taken control of 85% of Afghanistan. Kirby supports Biden's claim that there will be no "fall of Saigon" moment in which people have to be evacuated from the roof of the US embassy in Kabul.

CNN has been a slavish supporter of all things Biden—with one glaring exception. The network has been critical of Biden's precipitous withdrawal of all US combat troops from Afghanistan.  As early as April, when Biden first announced his intentions, we noted a very critical CNN segment on the subject. That downbeat drumbeat continued today. Co-host John Berman opened New Day by…

Biggest risk to the United States: Isis? Al Qaeda? Russia? China? Nope. It's—you guessed it—Donald Trump . . . if you believe MSNBC. On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show this afternoon, ex-FBI agent-turned-liberal-commentator Clint Watts claimed: "The biggest risk to the country isn’t actually from outside the country. It’s not even necessarily from inside the country, but from the last…

Morning Joe slobbers over President Biden's G-7/NATO/Putin summit trip. Joe Scarborough says, "I can't think of a more successful diplomatic trip in the 21st century than this one."  And speaking of Biden's press conference after his meeting with Putin, Jon Meacham claims to find "poetry in his prose."

President Biden concluded his Geneva, Switzerland summit with nothing to show for it but some nice photos of him shaking hands with Russian authoritarian Vladimir Putin and footage of Russian security manhandling the American press. But that didn’t stop CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell from delivering a doting segment proclaiming it a “legacy-defining” summit, despite admitting…

Following a rather contentious formal press conference with reporters in Geneva, President Biden again engaged with the media just before boarding Air Force One and bitterly complained that they weren’t being supportive enough of his foreign policy agenda. The exchange came shortly after Biden’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that seemed to accomplish little, if anything.

With just hours to go until gaffe-prone President Biden was set to sit down for an hours-long summit with Russian authoritarian Vladimir Putin, the big three broadcast networks diligently worked to fluff up the confused President Tuesday evening by suggesting that he looked “confident” and “energized.” They also did the bidding of the White House and tried to lower expectations in certain ways…

Despite his multiple gaffes at the G-7 summit in Cornwall, UK, Morning Joe bills President Biden as "calm" and the "strong leader" of the alliance. 

Despite the fact that former President Trump had shaken the NATO alliance out of their complacency and reliance on the U.S. for their collective protection, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) gave President Biden a hero’s welcome. Together they suggested Biden was the one “cementing the fractured American bond with NATO,” as NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt specifically put…

On Monday, the network morning shows shamelessly swooned over President Biden’s ongoing foreign trip, hailing the junket as a sign “that the era of Donald Trump is over.” The Democrat’s adoring fan base in the media further cheered Biden being “on a mission” to “restore relationships” with U.S. allies in the wake of Trump.