'Independent Fact Checkers' PILE ON Trump, Spanberger Gets a Free Pass

The State of the Union is typically an eye-opening exhibit of how dramatically slanted our "independent fact-checkers" are. An overview of the most prominent traditional national media sites reveals a total of 110 "fact checks" on the president to four for Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.). One might say that Trump spoke much longer, but all four of Spanberger's evaluated claims were ruled as…

Tim Graham
February 25th, 2026 4:45 PM

8-0: Google News Rages, Pushing Leftist Media Undercutting Trump SOTU

Google News promoted only left-leaning outlets’ coverage of President Trump’s State of the Union, according to an MRC review. Eight of nine featured articles were from liberal sources, with none from right-leaning media. The selection highlighted negative or critical takes on Trump, raising concerns over bias and lack of ideological diversity in Google’s news curation.

Michael Morris
February 25th, 2026 4:23 PM

The View: SOTU Had 'Unfair Dynamic,’ Trump Was Heard and Had Guests

The Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View spent the opening segment of Wednesday’s episode raging at President Trump’s State of the Union address the previous night. They decried how the prominent speaking position allowed for an “unfair dynamic” where Trump could be heard clearly, while Democrats only sounded… well, “crazy.” They also denounced the presence of the U.S. Men’s Olympic…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 25th, 2026 4:06 PM

Spanberger Omits Her Own Tax Wish List During 'Affordability' Rant

Despite claiming to champion “affordability” during her rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday, Democrat Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger refused to mention the slew of new taxes she’s seeking to inflict on residents of her state.

Craig Bannister
February 25th, 2026 3:11 PM

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

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.

Alex Christy
February 25th, 2026 3:04 PM

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

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…

Curtis Houck
February 25th, 2026 2:42 PM

STUNNER: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Rips Fiscally Out of Control Blue Cities

One of CNN’s most notorious TV egoists surprises viewers every once in awhile by displaying a modicum of common sense in the face of leftist politicians running economies into the mud. His recent repudiation of blue city spending is no exception.

Joseph Vazquez
February 25th, 2026 2:26 PM
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Scarborough on SOTU: Trump 'Did Sh-- No Sane President Would Ever Do'

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…

Mark Finkelstein
February 25th, 2026 2:04 PM

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

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.”

Alex Christy
February 25th, 2026 1:48 PM

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

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…

Curtis Houck
February 25th, 2026 11:39 AM

SOTU Democrats Don't Stand 'to Protect American Citizens'

Asked to choose between protecting American citizens or protecting illegal aliens, those Democrats who didn’t boycott Tuesday’s State of the Union cast their votes for illegal aliens.

Craig Bannister
February 25th, 2026 11:16 AM

PBS Allows Panelist Tiffany Smiley to Support Trump, Rip Spanberger

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.

Tim Graham
February 25th, 2026 10:34 AM

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

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.

Alex Christy
February 25th, 2026 9:33 AM

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

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.

Jorge Bonilla
February 25th, 2026 3:17 AM