{"id":105756,"date":"2018-02-05T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=105756"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:59:57","slug":"fox-friends-putting-finishing-touches-on-trumps-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/02\/fox-friends-putting-finishing-touches-on-trumps-state-of-the-union-address\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFox &#038; Friends\u201d Putting Finishing Touches on Trump\u2019s State of the Union Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_105757\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Fox-and-Friends.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105757\" class=\"wp-image-105757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Fox-and-Friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Fox-and-Friends.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Borowitz-Fox-and-Friends-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Richard Drew \/ AP \/ REX<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\" >The Borowitz Report<\/a>)\u2014With just one day until Donald J. Trump\u2019s first State of the Union address, the cast of \u201cFox and Friends\u201d is working furiously on the final draft of the speech, members confirmed today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve really been burning the midnight oil,\u201d Steve Doocy, the host of the Fox program, said. \u201cWe have so much to say tomorrow night, and we want to get it all in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy said that when he read the first draft of the State of the Union address last week, he \u201ckind of flipped out\u201d when he realized that there was \u201cabsolutely no mention of Hillary Clinton\u2019s Hydra-like tentacles controlling the Deep State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of the Union address is the President\u2019s chance to tell the American people where the country is and where it\u2019s going,\u201d Doocy said. \u201cYou can\u2019t do that without talking about how Crooked Hillary is funnelling her Russian-uranium riches directly into Bob Mueller\u2019s bank account in the Seychelles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trump reportedly has had input from other sources, including the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and several neo-Nazi Twitter accounts, Doocy said that the cast of \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d has final approval of the version that Trump will read Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone has to have the last word,\u201d Doocy said. \u201cThere are a lot of voices in President Trump\u2019s head, and that\u2019s not including the actual voices that are always in his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker<em> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club<em> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker<em> in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-and-friends-putting-finishing-touches-on-trumps-state-of-the-union-address?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20012918&amp;CNDID=46318546&amp;spMailingID=12837575&amp;spUserID=MTcxMTA2NTc5Nzc1S0&amp;spJobID=1322639717&amp;spReportId=MTMyMjYzOTcxNwS2\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump reportedly has had input on the speech text from other sources, including the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and several neo-Nazi Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}