Fact Check: Online Rumor Says Fox News Reported on Taco Bell Menu Change Instead of Trump's NY Guilty Verdict. Here's the Truth

Jordan Liles

31 May 2024 at 7:46 pm·2-min read

A post on X suggested Fox News was reporting on Taco Bell menu news while other networks covered former US President Donald Trump — Fox News

Claim:

Fox News ignored the guilty verdicts announced in former U.S. President Donald Trump's New York trial on May 30, 2024, opting instead to report news about Taco Bell's menu.

Rating:

On May 30, 2024, Emmy-nominated comedy writer Zack Bornstein posted on X a graphic that appeared in a Fox News broadcast. According to Bornstein's post, Fox News chose to run a segment about Taco Bell changing its menu at the same moment CNN, NBC and ABC reported the news of former U.S. President Donald Trump's guilty verdict at the end of his New York hush money trial on May 30. The post received nearly 10 million views and over 163,000 likes.

A post on X suggested Fox News was reporting on Taco Bell menu news while other networks covered former US President Donald Trump's guilty verdicts in his New York hush money trial.

The Fox News graphic read, "Taco Bell Items Rumored To Be Removed From Menu." The items listed included Quesaritos, all potato items, Loaded Grillers, Triple Layer Nacho, Beefy Frito Burrito, Spicy Tostada and 7-Layer Burrito.

However, Bornstein's post simply appeared to simply be a joke about Fox News' leaning in favor of Republicans and conservative politics.

According to the Internet Archive TV News Archive website and FoxNews.com, Fox News broadcast Trump's guilty verdict on all 34 counts of felony, just as so many other news networks did at the same time.

The TV News Archive website and FoxNews.com also confirmed, with video, that the graphic about Taco Bell eliminating items from its menu originally broadcast in July 2020.

Sources:

"Jury Finds Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts | Fox News Video." Fox News, 30 May 2024, https://www.foxnews.com/video/6353970899112.

Taco Bell Rumored to Be Removing Popular Menu Item, Social Media Erupts | Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/taco-bell-rumored-popular-quesarito-social-media.amp. Accessed 31 May 2024.

"TV News Archive." Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/tv.

"Zack Bornstein." Television Academy, https://www.emmys.com/bios/zack-bornstein.

"---." IMDb.com, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4956526/.

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