TDS: ABC’s ‘GMA’ Levels SEVEN Anti-Trump Reports Before Previewing NASA Launch

Curtis Houck
April 1st, 2026 4:44 PM

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How much does ABC News hate Donald Trump and his administration? And how far will they go to show they don’t want viewers to care about anything except hating Trump?

On the day of perhaps the most important moment in U.S. space history since 1972, Wednesday’s Good Morning America took over 15 minutes and seven anti-Trump team reports before it finally started covering in earnest the possible launch of NASA’s Artemis II on a flight around the moon.

It began with co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos trying to scare Americans over Trump’s “massive statement” to The Telegraph in an interview posted just prior to the show that, for the umpteenth time, he’s mulling the idea of withdrawing the U.S. from NATO.

Chief Washington correspondent and four-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl similarly huffed that Trump has the country mired in “a war that most Americans say they do not support” but has nonetheless “threatened a major escalation of U.S. attacks on Iran.”

On Trump’s latest prediction the war would end soon, Karl scoffed “many” of these statements have been uttered throughout the war, but “have come and gone without consequence” and thus prolonged “the pain of war” Americas have felt at the gas pump with gas “nearly $6 a gallon in California.” Of course, ABC would never explain why California gas is so expensive.

The end of Karl’s segment was just as bad as he said Trump’s primetime address on Iran would happen “as a new Ipsos poll out this week shows 60 percent of Americans disapprove of U.S. military strikes on Iran, and that nearly two thirds of Americans want to see the U.S. — to — work to end the conflict quickly.”

After Stephanopoulos wanted to dwell on the NATO comments, Karl and Stephanopoulos seemed a combination of befuddled and disgusted how calm Trump came off in a phone chat with Karl (click “expand”):

KARL: Yeah. Look, I have to say one thing that struck me. I spoke to him for about 20 minutes, yet — in the middle of the day, in the middle of the work day, he seems like somebody who doesn’t have a concern in the world. He seems extremely confident that the war is going to be just fine, that Americans will turn around and support it. The prices will come back down. He spent a lot of time, George, talking not just about Iran, but about the ballroom that he is building, which was stopped yesterday, about the fact that his signature is going to be on the dollar bill, that they’re renaming the airport in Palm Beach. Even talking about plans for the library that his son Eric is working on in Florida. He really seemed like a man that was not troubled at all by what was going on.

STEPHANOPOULOS: In the middle of the war.

KARL: All in the middle of the war.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah. Jon Karl, thanks very much.

ROBERTS: That says a lot.

Next, correspondent Matt Rivers delivered the ABC’s dose of negative nellies from the Middle East.

The focus then returned to the mainland and more Stephanopoulos pontificating: “And we’re going to get the latest now on President Trump’s attempts to interfere with the midterm elections, signing an executive order on mail-in voting. The critics are preparing to challenge in court, calling it unconstitutional.”

“Interfere” in an election? The gall of these people never ceases to amaze.

Chief White House correspondent and Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce followed in Stephanopoulos’s footsteps by calling President Trump’s executive order to protect voter integrity “just the latest in a series of actions taken by the President to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections ahead of the midterms” through “false claims” about the electoral system.

Bruce giddily proclaimed: “Election experts say the order is unconstitutional and not enforceable. Democrats labeling it illegal and a blatant, unconstitutional abuse of power. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying bluntly: ‘See you in court. You will lose.’ Top election officials in Oregon and Arizona — states that rely heavily on mail in voting — already vowing to sue.”

She derided the subject of protecting the electoral system as ludicrous, arguing Trump “has increasingly sought to sow distrust in the nation’s elections” and “railed against mail-in voting, claiming without evidence that it leads to ‘cheating,’ but cases of fraud involving mail-in ballots are extremely rare”

Bruce threw in a mention of the SAVE America Act as well: “And for weeks, the President has been pushing for Congress to pass the SAVE Act, which would impose new restrictions on voting in mail-in ballots. But, George, that bill has no clear path forward.”

Skipping past another Stephanopoulos-Bruce segment about a federal judge ruling against the President’s ballroom project, chief global affairs anchor Martha Raddatz joined the fray to knock Secretary of War Hegseth intervening in the bizarre incident with Kid Rock and an Apache helicopter crew:

Hegseth received a second negative report as correspondent Elizabeth Schulze gushed over House Oversight Committee Democrats looking to investigate him over a story in the Financial Times alleging, in her words, “a broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to make a multi-million dollar investment into a fund with defense stocks weeks before the Iran war.”

The final Trump administration hit piece was perhaps the dumbest.

“Going to turn now to a federal judge in Philadelphia allowing the Trump administration to collect information about Jewish people on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, over the objection of student and faculty groups,” co-host Robin Roberts began.

You see, dear readers, the implication is the administration are the real anti-Semites!

Chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky solemnly divulged a “judge in Philadelphia ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over a list of Jewish employees so the Trump administration can investigate claims of anti-Semitism,” but the school will appeal because doing so “evoked the tactics of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust.”

“The judge calling that comparison unfortunate and inappropriate. And though he conceded the administration’s subpoena was ineptly worded, he ordered Penn to comply. The judge saying the administration had an understandable purpose to find out if Penn’s Jewish community experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism in the workplace,” he added.

Katersky put his thumb on the scale with the declaration that doing so “raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.” Unsurprisingly, Roberts agreed, saying “it does.”

CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today didn’t have this problem of deciding on what the real top story is as they placed NASA on the front burner with multiple lead-off reports.

To see the relevant ABC transcript from April 1, click here.

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