Fox correspondent Jacqui Heinrich looked extremely perplexed after Trump helped New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani dodge some of her loaded questions during their love-fest at the White House this Friday. Fox has been helping Trump demonize Mamdani just about every hour on the hour seven days a week, so you can imagine the heartburn this is giving most of them.
Here’s Heinrich and Brian Kilmeade who was filling in for Will Cain immediately following the Trump/Mamdani meeting, discussing Trump’s behavior and trying to put a happy face on it.
KILMEADE: Jacqui, your impression of the get-together we all witnessed?
HEINRICH: You know, it was a surprise to see those two getting along as well as they did. A couple of times I asked the mayor-elect a tougher question, and the president almost helped him dodge it.
After playing a clip of Heinrich asking Mamdani about the vote in the House on socialism, Heinrich moved onto another question they didn’t play in the clip.
HEINRICH: I followed up asking the president… or asking Mamdani rather to clarify an answer that he gave earlier, where he seemed to confirm that he does believe President Trump is a fascist. And the president jumped in and said, you don’t have to answer that. You can just say yes.
