In a fiery Fox News appearance Friday morning, President Donald Trump openly defended the “radical right” while brushing off any responsibility to “fix” the country—just days after the shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah.
The segment, which aired on Fox & Friends, quickly veered from grief to grievance as Trump used the moment not to unify, but to double down on political division.
Asked point-blank by co-host Ainsley Earhardt how the country could heal in the wake of Kirk’s killing, Trump didn’t hold back.
“I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” Trump said. “Radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime.”
It was a jaw-dropping response, not just in its dismissal of the question, but in what followed. Trump painted the left in broad, dystopian strokes.
“We don’t want people coming in, we don’t want you burning our shopping centers, shooting our people in the street,” he said. “Radicals on the left are the problem and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country.”
This wasn’t just rhetoric—it was an outright refusal to seek middle ground. Earhardt had asked about unity. Trump gave her a culture war manifesto.
Then came the brag.
“I solved inflation,” he claimed—a statement that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Inflation has cooled over the last year, but it’s not the result of any policy Trump is currently involved with, and the Consumer Price Index remains largely flat year-over-year.
But the real bombshell came as Trump launched into a screed about immigration, making dark, unsubstantiated claims about migrants being released from prisons and mental institutions en masse.
“Worst thing is when we let 25 million people in, many of which and I say 80% should not be in our country,” Trump said. “They empty their prisons into our country, they empty mental institution and insane asylum. That is a mental institution on steroids. They empty out insane asylums into our country by the millions, it is the hardest thing.”
No evidence was provided for any of it. But that wasn’t the point. Trump wasn’t there to explain—he was there to inflame.
Watch the clip below from Fox News.
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left… pic.twitter.com/snOESz3x5a
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2025
