Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List (Updated)

 Sharyl Attkisson

"Note: Now that President Trump has been re-elected, this list will be continued with the newest incidents at the top.  Click here for Media Mistakes in the Biden Era

172. Tuesday, March 11, 2025   

"Numerous media outlets, including The US Sun, reported in February that the Philadelphia Eagles would snub Donald Trump’s White House invitation after their Super Bowl win. This claim, attributed to an anonymous source before the Super Bowl, suggested a preemptive rejection. By February 24, the White House clarified no invitation had been sent, and Eagles sources later told ESPN and others they’d accept if invited. Nonetheless, on February 25, Newsweek reported, “The Philadelphia Eagles have reportedly snubbed an invitation to the White House following their Super Bowl victory, sparking backlash from MAGA.” The Economic Times of India falsely reported: “Super Bowl 2025 champions Philadelphia Eagles have now entered into a wave of controversy afte[r] rejecting the invite to visit the White House for the second time now, and will not be attending the traditional meet and greet with the US President.”

On March 11, the White House officially announced it had extended the invitation and the Eagle had “enthusiastically” accepted.

171. Tuesday, March 4, 2025

"CNN and other media outlets fact-checked as “false” a President Trump address to Congress claim that millions of US tax dollars were spent experimenting to make mice transgender.

“CNN journalist Deidre McPhillips asserted that Trump falsely claimed’ Tuesday night that the Department of Government Efficiency identified $8 million that was spent on ‘making mice transgender,'” Fox News later reported. “Instead, she argued that grants were given to projects that applied hormone therapy to monkeys to understand its effects on HIV treatment.”

In fact, Trump’s claim is true. CNN later amended its fact check.

170. February 2025

"Numerous media outlets claimed Elon Musk “doesn’t have a security clearance” and shouldn’t be accessing certain government records. However, Musk has long had a security clearance and multiple sources say it’s currently at a Top Secret level." . . .  More...

Russia Says It’s Ready to Begin Peace Negotiations with U.S. Immediately

 National Review   

"Trump later backtracked his comments about Zelensky and praised the bravery of Ukraine’s military forces."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

"The Russians are open to beginning peace negotiations with the U.S. immediately to end the ongoing war in Ukraine.

“ 'We are ready to discuss the initiatives set out there in future contacts with the United States. Such contacts are already possible as early as today,” said Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

"Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov also said U.S. negotiators were traveling to Russia to Russia Thursday and discussions were planned.

“ 'Negotiators are indeed flying in, and contacts are indeed planned,” Peskov told reporters. “We won’t get ahead of ourselves — we’ll talk about it afterward.”

"Ukraine agreed to a 30-day cease-fire proposal from the U.S. during talks in Saudi Arabia earlier this week between top officials from both nations. The U.S. said it would present the ceasefire proposal to Russia following the diplomatic breakthrough with Ukraine.

"President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to end the fighting in Ukraine and bring both countries to the negotiating table. Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a heated dispute last month with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House over American military aid to Ukraine and the chances of peace with Russia. 

"Zelensky later issued a statement expressing regret for how the White House meeting turned out, opening the door for the peace negotiations. The confrontation caused the U.S. to temporarily halt military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, which were both restored as part of the cease-fire deal." . . .

James Lynch is a news writer for National Review. He previously was a reporter for the Daily Caller. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and based in the Washington, D.C. area.

As Trump moves to scrap key climate finding, emails show Obama EPA used it to push ‘progressive’ fix

Just the News  

Emails obtained through FOIA requests suggest the procedure Obama's EPA used to come to its endangerment finding was informed by people who wanted to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant no matter what and came to a predetermined conclusion on behalf of a "progressive" national policy.

 

The Ole Switcheroo

"As the Trump administration nears a decision on whether to reverse the landmark regulatory declaration that launched the "Green New Deal" movement, the legality and political motivations of the Obama-era environmental regulators are getting a fresh, hard look.

Emails reviewed by Just the News show that Environmental Protection Agency regulators who helped craft the 2009 "endangerment finding" — which declared greenhouse gases could be regulated because they risked public health — were preparing to impose the regulatory powers of the endangerment finding even before the science was wrapped up.

The emails also show there was an open discussion inside the Obama EPA about trying to score a win for liberals in what was supposed to be a scientific process. “You are at the forefront of progressive national policy on one of the critical issues of our time. Do you realize that?” Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling wrote then-EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Feb. 27, 2009. “You’re a good boss. I do realize that. I pinch myself all the time.” . . .

“As long as Zeldin dots all the I’s and crosses all the T’s, I think that'll survive at the Supreme Court level,” Milloy said. 

Abolishing the Department isn’t just about shrinking the government — it’s about restoring fairness.

 . . ."And America can return to what it was always meant to be: a land of opportunity, not a land of engineered outcomes. The end of DEI begins with the end of the Department of Education. Now, President Trump and the Congress must do their jobs — defund the DOE."  Gregory Lyakhov

https://spectator.org/

End the Department of Education to End DEI   "My ancestors were murdered in the Holocaust. My family suffered under the iron grip of the Soviet Union, stripped of their rights, silenced, and treated as second-class citizens because of their identity. They came to America with nothing — no wealth, no connections, no privilege. Just the hope that, in this country, hard work would be enough. And for the longest time, but especially after the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, that’s what America stood for: a place where effort, not ancestry, determined your future.

"But then came Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) — a policy that claimed to fight discrimination but, in reality, created a new form of it. DEI wasn’t about fairness; it was about reshaping the system so that race mattered more than merit. It told students like me that my achievements weren’t the most important thing — my skin color was. That’s not just wrong. That’s racism.

"This framework of racial preferences and social engineering didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It was cultivated by a bureaucracy designed to exert ideological control over education: the U.S. Department of Education. Created in 1979 under the Carter administration, the Department has steadily expanded its reach, using its regulatory power to impose policies that prioritize identity over achievement. It has been the enforcement arm of DEI, wielding its influence over school districts, universities, and research institutions that rely on federal funding." . . .

Department Of Education Cuts Staff By 50 Percent  

. . .“As the president and Secretary McMahon have noted repeatedly, what we are doing right now in education is simply not working. Seventy percent of kids cannot read proficiently by the time they reach high school, we have spent over $1 trillion at the federal level since the department was created, and test scores and outcomes have plummeted even before pandemic-related school closures drove down performance even more,” the official stated. “But, in the meantime, the bureaucracy has grown, and we have a department now that exists largely to oversee contractors, add strains, and in many cases do duplicative efforts across the department.” . . .

Whoopi Goldberg Claims Trump Ruined Biden’s Wonderful Economy Without Once Mentioning High Prices 

 “Let me just remind you about the Biden economy, okay?” Goldberg began. “The economy added 16.6 million jobs and gross domestic product grew 12.6%. They are the only administration in history to have created jobs every single month. But wait, there’s more. They achieved the lowest average unemployment in 50 years. Wealth adjusted for inflation rose a record 37% for the median American household and Americans filed a record 21 million new small business applications, the most in any presidential administration.”

 

GOP Chair Calls Transgender Lawmaker “Mr.,” Sparks Fury

 Legal Insurrection

 "In fact, all the transexuals (which they prefer to be called) I’ve befriended on X have all taken the steps to look female. They’ve only come out because of the trans activists. They just want to be left alone, but they felt the need to come out due to all the nonsense, especially since the activists have dragged children into it."

Rep. Nancy Mace’s Resolution Bans Trans Women From Women Only Areas at Capital

"During a Tuesday hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Chairman Keith Self (R-TX) recognized Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first openly transgender member of Congress, as Mr. McBride.

“  'I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride,” he said.

"McBride immediately shot back. “Thank you Madam Chair.” She then proceeded with her prepared remarks.

"She was interrupted by Ranking Member Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) who turned to Self and asked, “Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again please?”

"Self replied, “We have set the standard on the floor of the House and I’m simply —” Self was referring to a similar incident that occurred last month when Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) recognized McBride as “the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride.”

"In any case, he was abruptly cut off by Keating, who was quickly losing patience. “What is that standard, Mr. Chairman? Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly-elected representative from the United States of America? Please!” . . .

Uh oh! Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are freaking out that their pardons were signed by a Democrat with an autopen

 The “Biden” Presidency Never Existed, This Isn’t Fiction, It’s Worse  . . ."While the left complains endlessly about Elon Musk, many are infuriated by the fact there is now every reason to believe that unelected betrayers secretly controlled the executive branch for the past four years. This raises legitimate questions about the legitimacy of the documents bearing the autopen signature." . . . 

"Under the 25th Amendment, his inability to make decisions should have meant a succession of power. Instead, it appears staffers and officers in the Biden administration may have exploited Biden's incapacity so they could issue orders without an accountable President of sound mind approving them." . . .

Autopen Update  

"We analyzed Biden’s Jan. 19, 2025 “pardons” for: -Biden Family Members -Anthony Fauci -General Milley -J6 Committee -Gerald Lundergan They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature

"Biden Autopen Pardons on VACATION? Who is behind this autopen on 12/30/2022 that pardoned six criminals (with the exact same autopen signature) while Joe Biden was vacationing and golfing in the U.S. Virgin Islands? Note they all say they are “Signed in the City of Washington” Our autopen investigation continues…

• This is a huge scandal, who was behind the autopen pardons while Biden was on vacation The fact that all six pardons had the exact same signature raises serious questions about the integrity of the process It’s time for transparency and accountability in the White House, we need to know who controlled the autopen and why
• Bondi fired two attorneys recently. Both had to do with the pardons during the Biden administration. Something is brewing.
• You guys must not get it yet. They are Democrats. They are immune from the inconvenience of criminal investigations and prosecution according to the current AG. The new sheriff is same as the old one. President Trump went through hell for us and gets feckless weakness  GVC
• Deep state at work, who’s really running the show when Biden’s on vacation This autopen scandal raises serious questions about accountability and transparency in the White House, we need answers Kash Patel and the new FBI administration should investigate this autopen controversy and get to the bottom of it" . . .

 Autopen Update 
We analyzed Biden's Jan. 19, 2025 "pardons" for:
-Biden Family Members
-Anthony Fauci
-General Milley
-J6 Committee
-Gerald Lundergan

They all have the same exact Biden autopen signature https://t.co/jc6mkx37il pic.twitter.com/8VeBDwLNv7     March 11, 2025  — Oversight Project (@OversightPR)

Alina Habba Has a Little Fun When She Discovers Biden's Fake 'Oval Office'

You always wondered what Joe saw from his chair, eh?

Auditioning for the Part of Trump's Worst Adversary;

 Rajan Laad

"The only way to stop this abhorrent behavior is for voters to rethink what dictates their voting decision. Voters must focus on the record, i.e., actual work done rather than amateur theatrics. Publicity-hungry desperados such as AOC, Al Green, and Jasmine Crockett do not deserve a seat in Congress." . . . 

Image: AT via Magic Studio

. . . "When asked by a journalist about Elon Musk, Crockett replied, "F--- off."

"Internet sleuths found clips of Crockett speaking grammatically correct English sans expletives, and her manner was sober and pleasant.

"This is an act by Crockett to deceive all into believing that she rose from the grassroots sections when, in reality, she is affluent and educated. AOC has also used the fake accent ploy a few times in the past.

"The Democrats frequently claim that Trump has lowered the level of discourse in politics, but neither he nor any of his supporters in Congress have engaged in such rowdy behavior or uttered profanity in such a manner.

"Green and Crockett's election showed the devolution of the state of Texas, which was once considered a thoroughly red state.

"Once again, like Schiff, Ocasio-Cortez, Green, and Crockett will do nothing to improve the lives of their constituents. They are just auditioning for a part of Trump's worst hater, which will enable personal gain. They will be welcomed in various forums where they will feign righteous indignation, hoping it will result in a viral moment on social media.

"Some may claim they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, but even that seems unlikely. For this group, displaying Trump hatred is a ladder up the Democrat party hierarchy.

"The only way to stop this abhorrent behavior is for voters to rethink what dictates their voting decision. Voters must focus on the record, i.e., actual work done rather than amateur theatrics. Publicity-hungry desperados such as AOC, Al Green, and Jasmine Crockett do not deserve a seat in Congress.

"Congress is not a stage, and representatives are not players; what the public deserves are doers."

A Hamas supporter who graduated from Columbia got his green card revoked, and the left is losing its mind

Monica Showalter   

Guys like this shouldn't ever be allowed to set foot in the U.S. and the Trump administration was right to try to get this freak thrown out. 

"When pro-Hamas protests engulfed Columbia University, the place became a screaming sea of anti-semitism as leftists yelled together like Nazis, Jewish students were unable to go to class, custodians were taken hostage, the university atmosphere turned into a pigpen, and graduation diminished to a ghost of itself based on all the mess and disruption.

"In short, the protests were anything but peaceful.

"The university insisted it was outside interlopers doing it, which was partly true -- one was a forty-something man who lived off his parents in Brooklyn -- but these protests which brought such dishonor on the school had more than a few locals involved, too. To my knowledge, virtually none were expelled.

"One of them was a character named Mohammed Khalil, who just graduated from Columbia and who just had his green card yanked by ICE, which told him, 'buddy, it's time to go home.'

"The outcry from the left is amazing.

Staff leftist columnist Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times said we should all shiver from "the danger Trump's act poses to us all: . . .

. . ."Trump's act to protect the American people from terrorist agitating is worse than Hamas shooting up a music festival full of dancing kids, burning people alive in their homes, torturing and starving many of their hostages, and murdering babies and their mother in cold blood, along with a lot of other innocent people?" . . .

‘THERE WAS NOBODY’: Trump Shocked After Asking Freed Israeli Hostages If Anyone in Gaza Ever Showed Them an Act of Kindness, “NOT A SINGLE PERSON”

 Geller Report  

" ‘There Was Nobody’: Trump Says He Was Shocked After Asking Freed Israeli Hostages If Anyone in Gaza Ever Showed Them an Act of Kindness"

By New York Sun, March 7th, 2025

‘You think there’d be a couple of people that would be kind and would say, ‘You’re going to be okay’ or give you a piece of bread. But there was none of that,’ the president said."  

 “I said, ‘Did you see anybody in there that was kind?’” Mr. Trump recounted during a press conference in the Oval Office on Friday. “Out of the hundreds of people that you were seeing, did some of them wink at you and say, ‘Don’t worry, you’re gonna be okay,’ or give you a piece of bread?” . . .

How Trump thwarted Democrats

 Don Surber 

. . . "Now discredited! Maybe Bezos will give up his Russiagate Pulitzer. He should do what Zelensky did on Monday and apologize to President Trump. Schumer bragged 17 days before Trump’s first inauguration that the intelligence community has 6 ways till Sunday to get you. Like Wonder Bread, Trump now has 12 ways." ...

  

"Democrats thought Trump’s second presidency would be a repeat of his first. They cornered him last time by triangulating lawsuits, the bureaucrats and RINOs to stymie a president they believed unworthy of the title.

"Republicans in the Senate saddled the newbie with a Cabinet of Termites. He trusted them. Bigly yuge mistake.

"Ha ha ha. 8 years later, the establishment has not changed its playbook. Football may be a game of inches, but politics is a game of adjustments. Trump adjusted.

"First, he assembled a Cabinet of anti-Federalists. Many people overlook the fact that many Founding Fathers opposed the Constitution over fears of a central government that would overpower the states. Patrick Henry admonished the constitutional convention for not doing its job of simply fixing the Articles of Confederation but replacing it.

"Henry said, “What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states.”

"He praised the conventioneers as the loyal Americans and patriotic comrades in arms, but he firmly stated, “The people gave them no power to use their name.” . . .

. . ."Disbarring and bankrupting Rudy Giuliani is one of the foulest deeds of Democrats during Trump’s exile. Going after the lawyer who defeated the Mafia and cleaned up New York City was really evil because it was unnecessary.

Tulsi Gabbard Rips Security Clearances From 51 Spies Who Lied, Hits Biden With Some Bad News Too

Rusty Weiss

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday that the security clearances of 51 intelligence officers who signed a letter portraying Hunter Biden’s laptop as ‘Russian disinformation’ have been officially revoked.

Gabbard, one of several strong, intelligent women with a significant role in President Trump's cabinet, delivered the bad news to some high-profile members of the intelligence community. 

Names such as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Directors Mike Hayden, John Brennan, and Leon Panetta, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton signed on to the letter. And by doing so, they eventually signed onto their own security clearance revocation.

Gabbard further ripped clearances from former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, New York Attorney General and rabid anti-Trump advocate Letitia James, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Rounding out the delicious declaration on X is a note from Gabbard that former President Joe Biden is no longer privy to his Daily Brief.

"Per [President Trump's] directive, I have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, and Andrew Weissman, along with the 51 signers of the Hunter Biden 'disinformation' letter," Gabbard announced.

"The President's Daily Brief is no longer being provided to former President Biden."

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One Fact Missing From Every DOGE Story

Issues & Insights   

"The Golden Age might be upon us, but it will be smothered in its crib if Democrats, weak-kneed Republicans, and a corrupt media keep playing the same games that got us into this mess in the first place."

Never is any context provided.  "The next time you hear someone complaining that DOGE is “slashing” federal spending or “dismantling” the government, pay close attention. There will almost certainly be an important fact left out: The gargantuan federal deficit.

Every day brings a new sob story about how someone is being hurt by Elon Musk’s chainsaw because some federal program is being shut down, or because a precious federal job has been axed.

"Never in any of these is any context provided. And in this case, context is everything.

"By the time President Donald Trump took office – four months into the new fiscal year (which started last October), the federal government was already $840 billion in the red. That’s a 58% increase from the prior year. 

"If all goes well, the deficit for this year will total $1.9 trillion, according to the Treasury Department, which would be the third annual increase.

"The result is that the national debt is now $37 trillion – more than double what it was a decade ago. Interest on the debt took off like a rocket under Joe Biden.

"None of this is sustainable." . . .

"And if anyone suggests to you that Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are to blame, they aren’t." . . .