SIFTING(S): The sitting president said he was glad!

MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2026

Fox News disappeared what he said: On this campus, we almost never post on Sundays. For that reason, the intrepid Joe DePaolo beat us to the story. 

We'd seen it happen in real time, early Sunday morning. Over at Mediaite, DePaolo reported the sifting of information Fox News engineered. 

Indeed, DePaolo went well beyond what we ourselves had seen. Under a somewhat colorful headline, his report started like this:

Fox News Completely Ignores Trump’s Bonkers Statement on Mueller’s Death On Air

President Donald Trump’s shocking post celebrating the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller has not received a single on-air mention over at Fox News.

According to a search using the media monitoring service Snapstream, Fox News has not mentioned the president’s statement a single time on its air since Mueller’s passing on Saturday.

“Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday afternoon. “He can no longer hurt innocent people!” 

That jaw-dropping postscript on the life of a decorated public servant has received nary a mention on air at Fox News. The network’s chief political analyst Brit Hume did denounce Trump’s comments in a post on X. And other network contributors have—in social media posts—similarly condemned Trump’s remarks. The network also did cover Trump’s remarks on its website, and in an X post on the Fox News account, But that criticism has not been seen by Fox News viewers. And viewers haven’t heard about Trump’s words at all.

The sitting president had made a "jam-dropping" statement about Mueller's death. But according to DiPaolo's research, viewers of the Fox News Channel hadn't heard about that at all!

At this point, the story gets even better—or you might say it gets even worse.

As DiPaolo continued, he reported what viewers had heard about Mueller's death on Sunday morning's Fox & Friends Weekend broadcast.  On this campus, we ourselves had seen that carefully sifted report. 

The report was delivered by Charlie Hurt at 6:23 a.m. This is what we saw him say:

HURT (3/22/26): Former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the 2016 election interference probe tied to Russia, has died. His family releasing a statement, writing, quote, "With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away. His family asks that their privacy be respected." 

Former President George W. Bush, who nominated Mueller, says he is deeply saddened by the loss and praised him for his service to the country, writing, quote, ‘Bob transitioned the agency mission to protecting the homeland after September 11. He led it effectively, helping prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil."

While a cause of death has not been released, Mueller battled Parkinson's for several years, He was 81 years old. 

That was Hurt's full statement. The three friends engaged in no further discussion of Mueller's death. 

Indeed, searching the Internet Archive records, we find no sign that Mueller was ever mentioned again during Sunday's four-hour broadcast. And yes, we ourselves were struck by the apparent "sifting" Fox producers had performed in fashioning the text which Hurt faithfully read.

As you may know, Fox & Friends Weekend is co-hosted by a trio of friends. They're very friendly with each other—and they're especially friendly with respect to the sitting president. 

Indeed, almost everyone at the Fox News Channel is very favorably disposed toward the sitting president (as is their perfect right). This helps explain the sifting of information seen in Hurt's brief report. 

In his statement, Hurt reported that Mueller had died—and he reported what one former president had said. But as DiPaolo noted, Hurt didn't report what the current sitting president—the person who's actually president now—had said! 

Even by Sunday morning, that "bonkers" statement by the sitting president had become the subject of a great deal of critical comment. 

Indeed, it was just as DiPaolo reported. Early Saturday afternoon, in one of his endless Truth Social posts, this is what he had said:

Truth Details 

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump 

Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP 

By most peoples' reckoning, there he had gone once again! Unless you were watching Fox & Friends Weekend, where the unusual statement was sifted out—went completely unmentioned in Charlie Hurt's brief report.

Viewers were told what former president George W. Bush had said, but those same viewers weren't told what President Trump had said. His highly unusual statement was lovingly disappeared—was sifted, was edited out.

We're heavily working the term "sifted" today. We'll be using that term all this week. It refers to the highly selective way citizens are exposed to information and opinion under current arrangements, in which Silo Red and Silo Blue are the sources of large volumes of our journalism—of our public discourse.

Some news reports come from Silo Blue. Some come from Silo Red—and very rarely shall the twain meet. In this instance, the Fox News Channel had chosen to disappear the latest thing the sitting president had said.

In fairness, selective "sifting" of information works in various ways. The New York Times has also been inclined to disappear the sitting president's strangest remarks, though the paper didn't do so in this particular case.

We'll document that this afternoon. For now, we'll stop with this:

The president's "bonkers" comment about Robert Mueller was soon joined by another Truth Social post. In our view, this later post by the sitting president was even more "jaw-dropping:" 

Truth Details 

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump 

Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

For the ten millionth time, there he had gone again! The Democrat [sic] Party is this nation's greatest enemy, the sitting American president remarkably said.

(For Mediaite's report on that astonishing comment, you can just click here.)

Almost surely, that astonishing comment by the president won't be mentioned on Fox News. As of now, the astonishing comment hasn't been reported by the New York Times, according to the Times search engine.

Discussion of the president's possible medical condition is scrupulously avoided by the Times. We live in a very dangerous time—a time when the sifting of information of information is general over this failing nation.

The sifting is general over the nation. As we'll note, sifted news emerges from Silo Blue as well as from Silo Red.

Coming soon, perhaps tomorrow: What Gutfeld, Compagno said