A big win for the Trump administration and, most importantly, for the country was just announced on Friday:
“Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record, according to a new analysis of 2025 crime data.”
This statement appeared on the front page of the print edition of Friday’s (January 23) New York Times (Jan. 22 online).
That’s right, the New York Times.
This stupendous bit of news was so big that even the preeminent news organ of the left was compelled to run it on the front page. So there’s no possible way the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks could miss it.
So how much time did ABC,CBS and NBC spend (on their Friday morning shows) on the major news that America is a safer nation under President Donald Trump?
8 seconds.
That 8 seconds arrived not from a journalist, but only in a soundbite of Vice President JD Vance, in an exchange shown between NBC correspondent Maggie Vespa and Vance in a story about ICE arrests and protestors in Minneapolis, as aired on the January 23 edition NBC’s Today show:
MAGGIE VESPA TO JD VANCE: What do you say to people here in Minnesota who say it’s the overwhelming presence of ICE officers and federal officers and their tactics that are making them feel less safe?
JD VANCE: Well one thing I would say is, first of all, we saw in 2025 the biggest one year drop in murders in the history of the United States of America.
That was still 8 seconds more than what was aired on the Friday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings.
The New York Times reported the following:
Last year will likely register the lowest national homicide rate in 125 years and the largest single-year drop on record, according to a new analysis of 2025 crime data.
Violence has been falling for several years. But last year for the first time, all seven categories of violent crime tracked by the analysis fell below prepandemic levels. The numbers provide further evidence that the surge in violence in the early 2020s was a departure during a time of massive social upheaval, not a new normal.
The analysis of data from 40 cities, by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank, found across-the-board decreases in crime last year compared to 2019: 25 percent fewer homicides, 13 percent fewer shootings and 29 percent fewer carjackings. Between 2024 and 2025, only drug crimes went in the wrong direction, but they were still lower than in 2019.
While ABC, CBS, and NBC couldn’t mention the record-low murder rate last year under the Trump administration, it received plenty of attention on Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 23, 2026
Here was one of the NewsNation segments, courtesy of @ConnellMcShane.... pic.twitter.com/tqWhTjTOqL
The broadcast networks are so invested in seeing the Trump administration fail that they have (almost) completely ignored this piece of good news for the country.
