Trump Derangement Syndrome has led the legacy media to take a myriad of weird positions. In recent weeks, they’ve seemingly advocated for illegal alien criminals, and stood against fighting crime in big cities such as Washington, D.C. Now, they’ve been reduced to running puff pieces spotlighting communist China.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC’s World News Tonight on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025:
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, just weeks after President Trump rolled out the red carpet on U.S. soil for Vladimir Putin, tonight, Putin is now in China, joining China's president Xi, and North Korea's Kim Jong-un, who is also now in China, as well. The message they're sending to the U.S. and the world. And here's our chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell now.
IAN PANNELL: Tonight, just hours before a massive military parade, three of America's top adversaries gather in Beijing, sending a strong message that there's an alternative world order now competing with U.S. domination. Chinese president Xi Jinping welcoming Vladimir Putin. The Russian president calling Xi a dear friend. And Kim Jong-un making a rare trip outside North Korea, arriving on his bullet-proof train. The parade will commemorate the end of World War II. China's growing military might on display, with more than 25 world leaders attending. Satellite images showing military equipment already lining up. Our Britt Clennett in Tiananmen Square.
BRITT CLENNETT: We are expecting China to showcase its new weapons, including hypersonic missiles, drones, stealth fighters, and it’s a chance for China to showcase power on the world stage, but also to showcase its upgraded military.
PANNELL: It comes 2 1/2 weeks after President Trump welcomed Putin to Alaska, rolling out the red carpet, shaking Putin's hand. A stark contrast, as Putin, Xi, and India's prime minister Modi stand shoulder to shoulder.
David, this is a remarkable change of imagery, from Putin and Trump meeting in Alaska, to the scenes now playing out in Beijing, with so many of America's adversaries lining up together, united and strong. David?
MUIR: All right, Ian Pannell and Britt Clennett in China for us. Ian, thank you.
So Trump-deranged are the media that there is gleeful bleating over a “new world order” wherein China is the dominant power. As if to reinforce this point, there is time devoted to Kim Jong-Un’s arrival aboard an armored train. Compare that to the time the media lost their minds over Trump sending him a letter.
Here’s the tell that this was a “friendly” report to these dictators: I challenge you to run a word search for “authoritarian” or “dictator” anywhere within that transcript. Which is wild, given that the report repeatedly mentions Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un. You won’t find one anywhere, even as the media seek to depict President Donald Trump.
When compared to coverage of the parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, ABC’s preview of the ChiCom parade is downright obsequious- perhaps celebrity level. And perhaps, with Pannell’s evocations of “New World Order’, that was the point. So it is that Trump derangement led ABC News to fangirl about dictators they would otherwise condemn.
