‘Fox & Friends’ turns on Trump after Helsinki press conference: ‘He fell short’

The set of “Fox & Friends” added their voice to the chorus of criticism which rained down on President Donald Trump after his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki yesterday, telling Trump that he “fell short” of what was required of him and urged him to rectify the situation.

“Thanks to Robert Mueller’s probe we know the names of the 12 people at least on the Russian side … who were part of the hacking into the election,” said Brian Kilmeade, leading a funereal analysis on the couch. “When President Trump was asked about that he fell short.”

Kilmeade, who has increasingly emerged as Trump’s toughest critic on the show, then moved to directly berate the president, who is known to be a regular and close watcher of the show.

“I have news for you, Senator Schumer and Hillary Clinton will never get over the fact that you won the election, neither will 16 Republicans get over the fact that you won the primary. Did the Russians help you with that?” asked Kilmeade.

“From the day you came down the escalator, you shocked the world. From November, when everyone had you losing, you shocked the world. It wasn’t because of Russia, but Russia’s goal was to upend the electoral process. They hate democracy.”

Elsewhere in the program, he compared the meeting to President Kennedy’s disastrous one-on-one with Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.

“Kennedy would love to have undone his first meeting with Khrushchev,” said Kilmeade – who is also an amateur historian. “This is something that needs to be corrected.”

Also on set was Abby Huntsman a “Fox & Friends” weekend host — and the daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman — who had this to say yesterday.

The view from “Fox & Friends” broadly echoed that around the media Monday and Tuesday as fallout continued from the Trump-Putin summit. Even at Fox, hosts blustered all afternoon that it was a disaster, with only the president’s most die-hard supporters like Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs coming to his aid.