Fox News' Dana Perino is surprised Trump got booed at World Series - thought Americans would cheer

[Demovictory9]

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Fox News' Dana Perino said is surprised Trump got booed at World Series: "I was the one who thought the president should go to the game," "I never thought he would get booed. I thought Americans won't do that, Americans would cheer."

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-surprised-trump-got-booed-world-series-i-thought-americans-would-cheer-1468269

The applause quickly turned into resounding boos as the president appeared on the screen beside First Lady Melania Trump and some Republicans, including Florida congressman Matt Gaetz. In addition to the booing, some fans could also be heard chanting "lock him up."

A panel on Fox News' The Five discussed the incident in a segment on Monday.

Commentator Capri Cafaro criticized the fans that booed for failing to show respect for the president. "Everybody has their First Amendment right to express themselves however they want, but I would say this, regardless of whether or not you agree with President Trump or not he is the President of the United States and this is the World Series," she said. "I may not agree with pretty much anything President Trump does, but even if I felt that way, I would refrain from booing and just be silent and that's what you should do."

Co-host Dana Perino admitted that she never expected that Trump would get booed by the crowd. "I'm proved completely naive," she said. "I was the one who thought the president should go to the game. I never thought he would get booed. I thought Americans won't do that, Americans would cheer."

Co-host Jesse Watters said he researched presidents that have previously been booed and found that "Barack Obama got booed in Baltimore and also in St. Louis at football and baseball games."

The incident on Sunday night was not the first time a U.S. president has been booed at a sporting event. Washington National fans booed former Republican President George W. Bush as he was throwing a pitch during a 2008 game and Obama drew boos making the same pitch in 2014.


Following the World Series game, the hashtag #LockHimUp rose to the top of the U.S. trending chart on Twitter, with thousands of users sharing videos, pictures and memes of Trump's appearance at the game, which ended in a 7-1 loss for the home team.

[pangaia]

1. wasn't she a W press person.. like huckaeee ?

[karynnj]

8. Yep and she did not know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was

I guess she missed a lot of American History class.

[pangaia]

10. god, i remember that.. thanks.. what a dumb ninny...

[Bettie]

28. Ninny is a word that

we need to use more often!

And yeah, she appears to be...on the lower end of the bell curve.

[Lock him up.]

20. She talks like a well-cultivated Russian asset anyway. n/t

[BigMin28]

2. Who among us is surprised

someone at Faux News could be so utterly wrong?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Fox News doesn't know America.

They've fermented in their alternate hate bubble so long they've lost touch with the country they live in.

[RockRaven]

9. Yeah, see also: McConnell's face at the funeral and Trump's face at the baseball game...

They literally live in a bubble of self-perpetuating RW nonsense. And I mean N-O-N-S-E-N-S-E. Utter ridiculous, fact-free, reality-ignoring nonsense.

They don't encounter people on a regular basis -- who *they think are important enough* to pay attention to -- who could shake them out of their delusions.

[Aristus]

4. As we say where I'm from:

"She jes' 'bout as dumb as a ditch!"

[RockRaven]

5. So Perino is either a moron or a Trump-anus-sucker...

meh, okay. Not a big difference in practical terms.

[Dave Starsky]

24. Por que no los dos?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Well, in her defense. She's a a total moron. nt

[Demovictory9]

7. yes

[sprinkleeninow]

11. Dana, Dana, Dana. You schlepp for smox gnus. Airhead.... eom

[Quackers]

12. Trump wasn't being booed!

Obviously, it was Melania’s fault! That’s who they were booing! Just wait till they get back to the White House!

[dawg day]

13. Oh, come on, Dana. You were a Bush press aide. You can't possibly have forgotten the protests--

And Bush wasn't nearly as "bubbled" as Trump is.

[Vogon_Glory]

27. Dubya's Duck Soup Posse had those quarter-mile distant "Free Speech Zones"

So Dana got used to being too far away for a reality check.

It looks like things are really different outside the Czar’s palace and the Newscorp bubble, doesn’t it, Dana?

[dawg day]

35. Oh, I remember those "Free Speech Zones,"

the idea being that anywhere closer -- free speech wasn't allowed.

[oasis]

14. Boo freakin' hoo.

[Eyeball_Kid]

15. Dana's in the bubble.

She walked in and sat down.

[dchill]

16. She thought or she never thought. Which is true?

[GoCubsGo]

26. Based on what we've seen of her in the past...

I'm going with "I never thought..." Still unencumbered by the thought process after all these years. Some things never change, I guess.

[RainCaster]

17. Poor little Fauxette- the peroxide took both of her brain cells

What is she to do?

[onenote]

18. Privileged white girl with no idea how Trump has harmed folks in DC

Let's start with who lives in DC: lots and lots of federal employees -- federal employees who went without pay for weeks due to Trump shutting down the government, federal employees who have had a front row seat to the destruction of the institutional norms that they have been taught to respect over the years. Families of federal workers. Non-federal workers who were adversely impacted by the government shutdown by a loss of business.

DC and the surrounding suburbs all went to Clinton over Trump, sometimes by very large margins.

On what planet does Perino reside?

[Gothmog]

19. This lady is an idiot

Most of the people working for Fox News are idiots

[beachbumbob]

21. the bubble these people live in

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. She needs to step out of the FUX Noise bubble now and then

[tanyev]

25. Welcome to the world outside your bubble, Bubblehead.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. I'm surprised Faux even admitted to any "boos"

Normally they would have manufactured those boos into being "roars of approval". Sortof like -

[TidalWave46]

30. We would cheer.

An American president who puts their country first.

I bet Bush would have been cheered.

[HAB911]

31. Dana Perino is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

never has been

[FM123]

32. Somehow you would think that someone with a master's degree in public affairs

would have learned long ago not to be too "surprised" when a reviled president steps outside his hermetically sealed fox bubble.

[llmart]

33. "I'm proved completely naive"

No, Dana dearie. You are not naive. You are stupid beyond belief.

[bdamomma]

34. she is rather

delusional isn't she, out of the loop with the majority of the American people.