WH’s Leavitt Rips MSNBC’s Wallace, CNN Chyron Over Trump Speech Meltdowns

Curtis Houck
March 5th, 2025 7:34 PM

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Wednesday’s White House press briefing began with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touting the findings of a CBS News/YouGov flash poll showing a whopping 76 percent of those who saw President Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress liked what they saw, but also ripping CNN’s Chyron Boy and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace for their rank liberal bias.

And, in the Q&A, Leavitt took both pertinent and tough questions by outlets ranging from liberal ouetls like CBS and Politico to Fox News to more outright conservatives at the Daily Wire and Merit Street.

Leavitt wound up toward her media analysis by saying “[t]he behavior of Democrats last night was completely disgraceful and demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public” and “the most shameful moment in the history of presidential addresses[.]”

“Democrats didn’t stand to keep men out of women’s sports. They couldn’t even clap for a girl who got her head smashed in by a man on a volleyball court. Democrats didn’t stand for an innocent and beautiful child who is surviving brain cancer...They couldn’t even clap for two mothers whose daughters were killed by illegal aliens,” she added.

Arguing Democrats provided “a very clarifying moment” in having “exposed themselvs as the part of insanity and hate,” Leavitt declared “the mainstream media still doesn’t get it” with Wallace having “disgustingly looped in a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer into an attack on the president over January 6.”

 

 

As for CNN, Leavitt unloaded: “CNN’s first chyron out of the speech called it divisive. President Trump wasn’t divisive. The Democrats were, and CNN was proven wrong by their own viewers. 69 percent of whom in a post-speech poll said they had a positive reaction to the President’s speech.”

Taken together, Leavitt argued, Tuesday illustrated a “sad and frankly pathetic” reality “that Democrats and liberals in the legacy media continue to allow their hatred for the President to override their love for our country.”

Our friend and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award Winner Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire kick-started the Q&A from the “new media” seat:

Olohan also asked about President Trump’s continued fight against Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) and her push to continue allowing men into womens sports. Leavitt responded that Trump “won’t back down” from “ongoing litigation” as it’s “a common sense policy.”

Thankfully, Frontlines’s Monica Luisi returned to this issue later on with a follow-up about what it says about the left and the “message” they’re “sending to not only young women who are competing in these sports across the country, but also to the parents of these young girls.”

But, a few minutes after Olohan, it was Doocy Time, starting with a series of questions about Hamas negotiations:

Following another Doocy question about Elon Musk donning a suit for the President’s speech, CBS’s Weijia Jiang respectfully and pointedly wondered about how tariffs will impact average Americans:

Merit Street correspondent (and former Newsmax host) Lyndsay Keith was also camped out on tariffs, but China’s new ominous threat about war:

Later on, Politico’s Dasha Burns brought up the uneasy Americans still feel about the economy:

The New York Post’s Steven Nelson brought up the rear of the brisk, nearly 31-minute briefing, starting with someone that rarely found it in them to give Nelson a daily audience: Karine Jean-Pierre.

In fact, he invited Leavitt to respond to Jean-Pierre’s criticism of her changes to the White House press pool:

Nelson pivoted to China and fentanyl for his final question (click “expand”):

NELSON: And on fentanyl and tariffs, fentanyl produced largely in China has killed 334,000 Americans over five years, according to CDC data. That’s about one in every 1,000 Americans. President Trump has cited this for replying new tariffs to Canada, Mexico, and China, but in addition to China’s talk about being ready for any kind of war, they said yesterday the Foreign Ministry said that “the fentanyl issue is a flimsy excuse to raise U.S. tariffs,” and “the U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the fentanyl crisis.” So, what’s the response to China that’s the talk of be was just an excuse for tariffs and what does that say about the resolution —

LEAVITT: Well, of course, the country that is getting very rich off of distributing this deadly poison to American citizens is going to say that. Again, the President knows where the American people stand on this issue, fentanyl overdoses, Dasha brought up, all of us campaigning all across the country. They talked about inflation. They also talked about the border, the illegal immigrants that were pouring through, but also these deadly drugs and again, the President keeps in mind those families every single day when he is making these tough decisions, but it’s a necessary decision, and he’s no longer going to allow the United States of America to be a dumping ground for illegal immigrants and for illegal drugs that are killing our nation’s people. This is the number one leading cause of death in our country, and there needs to be action taken to ensure that that cannot continue.

To see the relevant transcript from the March 5 briefing, click here.

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