5 Times Media Tried To Take Down Trump But Took Themselves Down Instead
Corporate media outlets have taken repeated swings at President Donald Trump, but, more often than not, they’ve ended up hitting themselves.
From canceling their own hosts after anti-Trump rants to amplifying memes they meant to mock while also misreporting economic trends, media outlets have repeatedly tried and failed to take Trump down. Each attempt has only exposed their bias, damaged their credibility and handed Trump yet another win.
1. MSNBC Shakes Up Primetime Lineup After Host Repeatedly Targets Trump
MSNBC has shaken up its primetime lineup in February after a series of controversial moments involving its host targeting President Donald Trump. Joy Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” which aired at 7 p.m., has been canceled and replaced with a new panel show featuring Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menen.
The move comes as the network retools its programming, with Alex Wagner’s show also being replaced by Jen Psaki. Reid faced backlash for her frequent attacks on conservatives and white Americans. Her emotional farewell on-air highlighted her belief that her program had “value” on MSNBC. Even after her firing, Reid continued to criticize Trump, insisting that “fascism is already here” in her final broadcast.
Trump criticized CNN and MSNBC for their coverage of the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and called them “gutless losers.” The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA and even the Iranian government contradicted a CNN report claiming that Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites caused minimal damage. While CNN cited a “low confidence” DIA assessment, multiple agencies and even Iranian sources confirmed that the strikes significantly impacted Iran’s nuclear program.
U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said it would be “almost impossible” for Iran to “resurrect” its nuclear program following the U.S. strikes on its facilities.
“It’s not even conceivable,” Witkoff said. “The conversion, destroying of the conversion facility, which not a lot of people are aware of, that stops the enrichment process in the beginning, and it’s needed to finish the enrichment process. Once you get to 90%, you now must metallicize the material, shape it into a round ball, a round metallic ball. That round metallic ball goes into the bomb. Without conversion, you can’t begin enrichment, and you can’t end enrichment in a successful weaponization. That was taken out.”