President Trump gets some pushback from an unlikely source

Well, well, well. President Donald Trump faced some tough questions from a TV cable news personality, who pushed back on many of his claims about how supposedly great things are going these days.

And the person who pushed the president Monday night was none other than Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. The pushback was gentle, but it was pushback nonetheless.

As CNN’s Brian Stelter noted, “President Trump’s Fox News interviewers are sometimes so promotional and deferential that little gets challenged, and almost no news is ever made. However, Laura Ingraham was more strategic than that. On Monday, she sat down with Trump and scrutinized several of his policy proposals, channeling dissension within the pro-Trump ranks — and seemingly catching the president off guard.”

The Daily Beast’s Cameron Adams wrote, “The interview is in stark contrast to Ingraham’s visit to the Oval Office in March, when the president showed off his ‘Coke button’ to the Fox host and complained about the Rose Garden and the need to pave it over.”

Ingraham asked Trump about the economy, the government shutdown, health care, the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, and China, among other topics. She often used the term “MAGA folk,” while questioning some of Trump’s ideas.