One thing’s for sure: the lefty media can’t handle that President Donald Trump has the ability to shift the news cycle away from their non-stop propagandizing that his Immigration and Customs Enforcement carrying out its duties is supposedly his own personal gestapo.
Media outlets like The New York Times, Qatar-owned Al Jazeera, NBC’s TODAY, CBS News New York, CBS News Chicago and Spectrum News all grit their teeth at Trump for daring to “shift the focus” onto the success of the economy during a speech in Iowa January 27. Apparently, talking up an economy whose GDP was projected to have exploded 5.4 percent in Q4 2025 and whose investors are betting on Trump running it “hot” into the midterms was somehow just a distraction away from the media’s smearing of ICE officers.
What’s even more wild was that all the aforementioned outlets characterized his speech in the same manner as “shifting” the “focus” as if they all received the same talking points beforehand.
The Times sicc’d a number of its reporters onto Trump’s Iowa speech in a live-update thread headlined, “President Visits Iowa, Trying to Shift Focus to the Economy.” In one of the short-updates authored by Ann Hinga Klein, she tried to christen anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti following his death due to impeding officer operations and resisting arrest while carrying a firearm. “As Trump speaks in Iowa, thousands of demonstrators protest Pretti’s killing,” read her headline. Klein didn’t bring up the context of the fatality in her write-up, and instead just cast Pretti as a saintly “nurse who was fatally shot by federal agents on Saturday in Minneapolis.”
NBC News’ Today also chimed in along similar lines during its January 28 broadcast, arguing in a caption of its segment on the Iowa speech, “As the White House looks to lower the temperature amid the public uproar over the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents, President Donald Trump is trying to shift the focus to the economy.”
Of course, it would only be later that day that new footage would be released showing Pretti violently attacking an ICE vehicle and taunting officers to “Assault me motherf***er!” just days before his death.
MUST WATCH: Footage of an a man who looks like Alex Pretti with a gun in his waistband, spitting on and attacking federal law enforcement officers and kicking the tail light of their vehicle on January 13.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 28, 2026
Bombshell report from the BBC.
Important context: Pretti was not a… pic.twitter.com/snzEO8rU8w
Al Jazeera, which has a pretty ironic track record of simping for the murder-worshipping Hamas terrorist organization, snooted how Trump was attempting to Iowa “to shift focus to bread-and-butter issues amid outcry over two fatal shootings by federal agents.” “Bread-and-butter issues” like the status of an economy that Iowans and other midwestern states rely on for their day-to-day living? Author Al Jazeera English Online's Asia Business Editor John Power, who’s based in Malaysia (not even the U.S.), dismissed Trump’s Iowa talk as a “superlative-laden speech.”
CBS News had two of its more prominent local stations cover Trump’s Iowa speech on the economy from the same angle. CBS News New York and CBS News Chicago both accused Trump of shifting the “focus” to the economy away from ICE, a nutty non-sequitur given that talking up an economy during a midterm election season is completely normal political behavior for any president or elected official.
In promoting an Associated Press story on Trump’s Iowa visit, Spectrum News spun, “Trump tries to shift the focus in Iowa; heat on Noem grows.”
Here’s a possibility — and stay with us here: Maybe Americans are generally more concerned about how the president addresses the conditions of the environment directly affecting their wallets than whatever propaganda the media spews out trying to make Pretti out to be the second coming of George Floyd.
