There’s no other way to say it: A new report shows the Trump economy has continued to defy expectations, but you wouldn’t know any of this watching the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts.
The Bureau of Economic Research released its third revision of Q2 GDP growth September 25, and found that the U.S. economy was even hotter than the previous two estimates indicated. Specifically, GDP in Q2 spiked 3.8 percent, significantly higher than the second estimate of 3.3 percent and completely shattering economists’ original expectations of just 2.3 percent Q2 growth.
But like bug spray to mosquitoes, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News all avoided this story like the plague during their September 25 broadcasts, likely because it further made President Donald Trump’s critical experts prophesying economic doom look extremely questionable.
This is the second GDP revision in a row that the evening networks have ignored in a gross display of why Americans should never expect the liberal media to be fully forthcoming about anything related to news.
Even CNBC On-Air Editor Rick Santelli admitted that this stunning third revision “shocked” him during the September 25 edition of Squawk Box. “Usually the revisions — when you get the second and third it just gets smaller and smaller. So 3.8 percent would be the best quarter going back to — and we have to go back a ways here — to 4.4 and that was the third quarter of ‘23.”
🚨 BREAKING: Yet another stunning blow to the Experts - Quarter 2 GDP revised HIGHER AGAIN to +3.8%.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 25, 2025
First they said it was 3%, then 3.3% - now 3.8%!
CNBC: "A SOLID revision. 3.8%. I'm a bit shocked, to be honest!"
The Trump economy is STRONGER than predicted. pic.twitter.com/6vLnvDQTxj
No wonder the Big Three didn’t want this story to get any oxygen.
Newsweek reported that the “The upgraded growth rate suggests that American consumers are continuing to spend despite economic uncertainty, helping to offset weaknesses in business investment and hiring.” But that wasn’t all the good news there was to take away from today. Jobless claims fell 14,000 in the week ending September 20 to 218,000 against Dow Jones economists’s expectations of a 4,000 claims increase to 235,000.
Is repeatedly spiking news that informs American viewers about the state of their economy serving the public interest as the Big Three’s FCC license obligations mandate? We’ll let our readers decide on that one.
