The liberal media greeted President Trump’s 100-day mark Tuesday with a torrent of negative coverage, so it was no surprise when CBS used both of its evening news shows — CBS Evening News and CBS Evening News Plus — to nearly go wall-to-wall in spewing disgust at the Trump administration, almost trying to conjure up a recession and economic ruin.
It started from the get-go with a pot-shot from Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois: “President Trump’s first 100 days have been largely about the trade deal, and, so far, there’s been more wheeling than dealing, especially with China.”
White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe was also glass half-empty in the lead-off report: “[Trump’s] touting his work on the economy and with tariffs. But as he marks the first stretch of his second term, people we spoke to here outside Motor City fear the economy could get worse.”
It continued with O’Keefe finding furloughed autoworkers and a grocery store owner to express fear about the future with one fearing “impending, looming doom” (click “expand”):
O’KEEFE: The news was cheered by the Big Three American carmakers, though, customers will likely still pay more for a new car. And it does nothing to cushion the economic pain of autoworkers Scott Doody and Tavathan Noble, who were furloughed just before Trump took office. What does that then cause you to have to worry about in terms of costs on a day-to-day basis?
SCOTT DOODY: Your food went up. Gas went up. Our wages went down.
TAVATHAN NOBLE: Utility bills have went up. Groceries have went sky high.
O’KEEFE: Both agreed tariffs could eventually bring more jobs to the U.S. Doody voted for Trump.
DOODY: I just think it’s going to take time for more to happen.
O’KEEFE: Noble voted for Kamala Harris and is more pessimistic.
NOBLE: Unemployment’s went up. Every day, somebody’s closing their doors because nobody’s going in to buy anything.
O’KEEFE: But that’s not the case at the Holiday Market just outside Detroit. Store director Erik Schneider says customers aren’t yet whining about higher prices, but they may soon pay more for goods like imported wine.
ERIK SCHNEIDER: We haven’t changed our prices, yes.
O’KEEFE: OK. But if it keeps up?
SCHNEIDER: Yes, that — yes, because wine, liquor, you operate on thin margins.
O’KEEFE: So far, Schneider says business is steady. The state of the economy here in Michigan is what?
SCHNEIDER: It has been pretty healthy, but, again, it’s kind of the wait and see.
O’KEEFE: Sort of this sense of something could happen, but nothing’s happening now?
SCHNEIDER: Yes, it’s impending, looming doom.
Co-anchor John Dickerson then reminisced about marking the first 100 days of the first Trump term with the President in Pennsylvania, but that too was negative with tariffs being the frame of reference: “[I]n 2017, he touted the National Association of Manufacturers, who were so optimistic about what he’s doing. If you look at their publications now, they’re worried about these tariffs And the other thing is that the Ames True Temper plant, the factory is closed And Bloomberg reports that it appears their products are now made in China.”
Speaking of China, the duo went onto openly admit they participated in the making of Chinese Communist Party propaganda by sending Hong Kong-based foreign correspondent Anna Coren to NIO, a Chinese electric vehicle company.
After DuBois called it “a look behind enemy lines,” Dickerson boasted: “But keep in mind, our Anna Coren was shown what the Chinese communists want her and you to see.”
Coren nevertheless indulged the Chinese commies by giddily taking flight in a driverless, flying car, adding “[i]t was the first stop on a media tour, where China wanted to show us how their economy is ready to move forward with or without the United States.”
“E.V. company NIO, an industry leader of Anhui province, was part of the tour. Its factory, with 97 percent automation, has the ability to produce 300,000 cars a year, selling on average for $40,000. While there’s no denying the trade war is going to hurt China’s economy, companies like NIO are proof that the country’s future growth and success is no longer pegged to the United States,” she gushed.
She even giggled with the co-anchors after the voice-overs: “Oh, look, it was an interesting experience. Over my career, I have had the good fortune of going up in a fighter jet and a Black Hawk, admittedly with professional pilots. But I thought, what the heck? What could go wrong?”
This went right into a Nancy Cordes segment arguing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has done little to improve the federal government’s finances:
Five news briefs and a commercial later, there was this wild segment about Catholic Charities and using the late Pope Francis to condemn Donald Trump as evil for his posture toward illegal immigration:
CBS took a pause for the weather before resuming the Trump bashing. This time, for the “Eye on America” segment, correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti went to Point Roberts, Washington to lament the fraying relations between the U.S. and Canada.
Why there? It’s only accessible by first crossing through Canada.
Watch below as Vigliotti found a struggling restaurant owner and then someone whose business — a packing and shipping shop — went out of business:
CBS Evening News proper ended with an honor for all-black, all-women 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion from World War II, so the Trump bashing only took a break for mere moments with Dickerson’s CBS Evening News Plus ready to carry forward.
He started with three news briefs, including one lamenting the “significant staff cuts” at the Peace Corps “after a review by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting DOGE team.”
The first full story was more fear-porn pom-poms about the auto industry, CBS polling claiming 69 percent of Americans don’t believe Trump is doing enough to lower everyday costs, and a negative data point about consumer confidence:
In a segment that aired on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, Deep State correspondent Scott MacFarlane said the DOGE has struck Justice Department programs investigating police departments (as in, you know, ones accused of racism) and funding for the National Center for Victims of Crime hotline:
A segment, three news briefs, and a break later, correspondent Carter Evans reported more negative news for America. For this, he went to the Port of Los Angeles where they predict it and other ports will soon become ghost towns because of tariffs:
This too would air the next day on CBS Mornings.
The Trump hate finally came to a close with a lengthy, softball-filled interview with the National Urban League’s Marc Morial, who came loaded for bear and still livid the race hustler industry’s beloved Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs are going down the drain.
Because CBS News doesn’t take ethics seriously, it refused to disclose Morial is a deep, personal friend of CBS News given his wife is longtime CBS News personality and current CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller.
If this were Fox News, you bet the so-called media writers out there would be having a conniption.
At any rate, here was that interview in all its absurdity, including Dickerson praising National Urban League for its work on “economic inequality” and defending the need for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Naturally, Morial painted a dark future that Trump would take America back to before the civil rights movement (click “expand”):
DICKERSON: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under President Trump has made a seismic shift in enforcement of equal protection laws in employment, housing, and education, leading to more than 100 lawyers resigning from the unit. Civil rights groups argue the reforms are a rollback of decades of racial and economic progress. For tonight’s interview, Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League, which has joined legal challenges of those executive actions. Marc, we’re going to get to those.
MORIAL: Hey, John, thank you.
DICKERSON: We’re going to get to those legal challenges in a minute. Just give us, though, the history of the Civil Rights Division in the past and why it’s been important.
MORIAL: So the Civil Rights Division was created in 1957 by a Civil Rights Act passed by the Congress after Brown v. Board, after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, with the very specific intent of enforcing the then Civil Rights laws. In 1964, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it gained a much more vigorous, if you will, role with the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Law. Its mission is clear. Its mission is to protect those who’ve been historically locked out and left out in this nation. And what we see is an effort to flip that entire mission on its head.
DICKERSON: What changes worry you the most?
MORIAL: What worries me is to, in effect, allow racial discrimination to run free, unabated, unfettered, and giving people in this nation nowhere to go for redress. It also strikes me as what the administration is trying to do is it’s almost a misfeasance or a malfeasance. You didn’t go to Congress and ask them to change the law or change the mission. You’re unilaterally seeking to act. And that’s not what democracy is all about.
DICKERSON: Is that what the basis of your lawsuits are? And is that right?
MORIAL: Well, there have been 200-plus lawsuits that have been filed against Trump executive actions. We brought one against three diversity, equity, and inclusion executive orders. I think most of these challenge that these actions go beyond the power of the presidency. They trample people’s First Amendment rights to pursue their mission and to pursue their goals. And they otherwise are inconsistent with the principles of American democracy.
DICKERSON: Has there been any dialogue with the administration?
MORIAL: I think that there has not been any meaningful dialogue as of yet. I think that we would work to convince, to encourage the president and his people to reverse course. Already with the polling numbers, John, the public is weighing in. They don’t support. They don’t like. They don’t embrace this direction, particularly when it comes to civil rights. Most of the polling shows that when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion, the American people do support it. They believe it’s helpful. They believe it’s necessary.
DICKERSON: Have you seen — there’s obviously an effort throughout the administration to get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Have you seen that affect the private sector and the way they approach it?
MORIAL: Some in the private sector have been — it’s had a chilling effect on many in the private sector. It’s caused many in the private sector to walk away from important commitments that they’ve made, while there are others who’ve held strong. Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase, Roger Goodell, the Commissioner of the National Football League, recent comments by the CEO of Marriott indicate that these business leaders are saying, I know what’s best for my business, and I’m not going to stand by and let the government dictate what I think is necessary to grow my business to profitability. And that means I’ve got to be open to all Americans.
DICKERSON: And the Urban League has worked hard on economic inequality in its history. Give me a sense of what your thoughts are about the nature of that in this administration.
MORIAL: Well, right now, the tariff taxes are having a very corrosive effect. The idea that everything is going to be more expensive hits working people the hardest. The idea that we could have stagnant growth will hit and raise unemployment among African Americans and other working people. That impact, just in 100 days, greatly concerns us in terms of what the long-term effect may be.
