AP Fact-Checks Trump Saying The Revolution 'Still Burns' In Our Hearts

February 25th, 2026 3:04 PM

The Associated Press’s Melissa Goldin and Calvin Woodward were given the task of fact-checking President Trump’s Tuesday State of the Union address and, in some of their checks, they were so pedantic it bordered on self-parody.

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NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Offers Surprisingly Balanced SOTU Wrap-Up

February 25th, 2026 2:42 PM

As we’ve documented recently at NewsBusters, CBS’s flagship newscasts have shown little wholesale changes under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss that we both initially saw and as had been reported. Instead, it’s been more of the same liberal drivel. But ironically, there have been a few moments at NBC where it’s come across as this was the network she actually leads and such was the case on…

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Scarborough on SOTU: Trump 'Did Sh-- No Sane President Would Ever Do'

February 25th, 2026 2:04 PM

Joe Scarborough has reacted to President Trump’s State of the Union with profanity — and by questioning his sanity. After a sweeping denunciation of Trump’s remarks on immigration, inflation, and elections, Joe Scarborough declared the speech “extraordinary… for many reasons,” adding: "He did sh-- that no sane president would ever do. It was really, really crazy to be watching that in a State…

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Colbert Denounces Trump's 'Dark' State Of The Union

February 25th, 2026 1:48 PM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert hosted his last-ever live edition of The Late Show in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday as he reacted to President Trump’s State of the Union address, which he labeled “dark.”

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ABC SLAMS Trump for ‘Partisan Attacks’ in SOTU, ‘Short on Specifics’

February 25th, 2026 11:39 AM

In reacting Wednesday to President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address, ABC’s Good Morning America followed its tiresome pattern of being all Trump hate, all the time by repeating an absurd 11 times the President’s grappling with negative polling and went out to deliver a speech that consisted of “brutally harsh” “partisan attacks” and irresponsibly “paint[ed] a rosy picture” of…

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PBS Allows Panelist Tiffany Smiley to Support Trump, Rip Spanberger

February 25th, 2026 10:34 AM

Live PBS coverage of Trump's State of the Union speech offered a surprising balance to the usual liberal tilt. They allowed Tiffany Smiley to sit on the set and be strongly pro-Trump in her analysis, especially at the end, when she ripped Gov. Abigail Spanberger as a fake moderate and a  "Trojan horse for the far-left policies" of the Democrats.

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'Christmas Message From The Grinch': Kimmel Pans Trump's 'Angry' SOTU

February 25th, 2026 9:33 AM

Predictably, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not a fan of President Trump’s Tuesday State of the Union address, but even by his standards, Kimmel went off the rails.

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Actor Robert De Niro SEETHES: ‘Our Country’s Not So Lovable Right Now’

February 25th, 2026 3:17 AM

This year, the left was more deliberate in counterprogramming President Trump’s State of the Union address. Over 70 Democrat Members of Congress chose not to attend, going instead to one of several alternate events where attendees would gather and spit bile about how much America sucks, in their opinion. One of those events was headlined by Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro.

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Jake Tapper Clutches His Pearls Over Trump Calling Dems ‘Crazy’

February 25th, 2026 2:37 AM

Just after midnight in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, CNN was still reacting to President Trump’s State of the Union address when co-anchor Jake Tapper led the rest of the ladies on the panel in clutching their pearls over Democrats getting called out as “crazy” by the President. Of course, they didn’t mention what issue Trump called them “crazy” for supporting and it was a pretty…

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MS NOW’s Jen Psaki Dismisses SOTU Honorees as Circus Entertainment

February 25th, 2026 2:09 AM

You would think that a veteran communications professional and former White House Press Secretary would show a modicum of respect when mentioning the various State of the Union honorees. Not if you are one Jennifer Rene Psaki, currently of MS NOW, “analyzing” President Donald Trump’s address.

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CBS: Trump’s SOTU Flexed ‘Dark Art’ of Simplifying Illegal Immigration

February 25th, 2026 1:09 AM

Before President Trump had even exited the House chamber following his 2026 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, CBS News was already poohpoohing it by whining about Trump making Democrats look bad by oversimplifying complex issues like protecting criminal illegal immigrants over American citizens. They also continued the debunked lie that Democratic Virginia Governor Abigail…

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ABC, NBC Try to Trap Hughes Family Over Trump Inviting Team to SOTU

February 24th, 2026 6:07 PM

Early Tuesday, America’s new leading family — as in the Hughes klan, including USA Hockey star and gold-medal-winning goal scorer Jack Hughes  — wadded into network morning newscasts and were sadly met on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today with attempts to sully their reputations and maim both their character and the entire men’s team for taking a phone call Sunday…

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ABC Hurls Trump Hate Before SOTU, CBS Hits GOP But Goes Soft on Dems

February 24th, 2026 4:05 PM

On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) and CBS Mornings combined to offer widely negative rhetoric in previewing President Trump’s State of the Union, painting it as an almost hapless endeavor amid “his lowest numbers yet” to change the minds of voters poised to trigger a blue tsuanmi in November. Unsurprisingly, GMA was the most negative. In short,…

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Cornish Admits Social Media Algorithm Bias — But Ignores Her Own

February 24th, 2026 11:58 AM

For the second straight day, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish served up carefully curated anecdotal voices to suggest economic discontent under President Trump. On Monday, we caught Cornish spotlighting one Republican voter — out of tens of millions nationwide — to imply GOP unease over the economy. On Tuesday, she swapped that single poll respondent for a montage of social media…