Michelle Backus ratcheted up the fawning on Fox News over President Donald Trump ― just because of a routine moment.In an interview with Fox News host Trace Gallagher, the political consultant watched Trump shake hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in South Korea on Thursday (local time).She thanked God that Trump was at the sit-down and not Kamala Harris, who lost to him in the 2024 election. Then she reached quite the presumptuous conclusion.“And you can see the way he’s shaking his hand,” she said. “President Trump has control of that room, and I have a lot of confidence in this meeting.”Some viewers expressed a lack of confidence in the Fox News guest’s take.“The way they slobber all over Trump is truly sickening and highly concerning,” one critic wrote. “Are they so deep into the cult that they have lost all sense of reason?”The meeting featured an awkward moment when a reporter asked Trump, with Xi across the table from him, why he announced earlier that the U.S. would resume nuclear weapons testing decades after it stopped. Trump didn’t answer.But the sucking up on the conservative channel grabbed some attention online, too.Literally change nothing other than swap Trump for Biden…do you think this pack of parasitic suckerfish would be so effusive and sycophantic??— Al Prior (@AlrantAl) October 30, 2025Why do MAGA still keep pumping out this weird , cringey handshake thing is in any way some sort of alpha move? It just screams insecurity.— Patrick Dearden (@Deardenpad) October 30, 2025🤣😂🤣 she clearly doesn't have a clue: Xi is in control of the tarrif war. Xi doesn't smile and rarely shows emotion amd affection. Think I only saw him smile meeting Putin. Xi holds all the cards here, watch.— ◇Debarns◇ (@debarnbb) October 30, 2025Wtf was she watching? Xi was not playing and was not amused. Go back and look at past videos of them n you’ll see totally different exchange n body language.— 💥☠️BklynRayder☠️💥🏈🇺🇸♈️⚾️🏀#screwtheDemsnRepub (@bkrayder) October 30, 2025Close