It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors, led by MRC President David Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2025 and on December 17 announced The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year.
Of course, every year, there is way too much bias for just one category. So we broke down the Worst of 2025 into five additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The ICE Breakers Award for Hating Trump’s Deportation Policy; and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).
Today, we present the WORST OF 2025: The Trashing Trump Award.
WINNER
“It’s another day that ends in Y and Donald Trump’s assault on American democracy. We have entered a new era of snowflake fascism, ladies and gentlemen, in the U.S., where the snowflakes on the far-right whine and complain every time somebody hurts their feelings. The weak-kneed corporate executives who only know how to smooch Trump’s butt simply go along with the dear leader’s demands. The latest example, the canceling of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV show. All Kimmel did was call out MAGA for attempting to capitalize on the death of Charlie Kirk – which, of course, they did.”
— Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta on The Jim Acosta Show podcast, September 18.
RUNNERS-UP
“Life in the United States is profoundly changing. It’s profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
— Host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, August 4.
“This [Trump sending in National Guard to protect ICE in cities] is a pretext to stop the next election! That’s what I think it is.”
— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, October 7.
Co-host Joy Behar: “This is not a normal inauguration. This is not a normal person. He’s a convicted felon. Why do they go as if this is a normal inauguration? And it’s not.”...
Co-host Sara Haines: “The normalizing of President Trump happened when the American public went out and voted.”
Behar: “The Germans voted also. Just saying.”
— ABC’s The View, January 17.
