Torrent of TDS: 2026 Pulitzer Prizes Headlined by One Anti-Trump Piece After Another

Curtis Houck
May 4th, 2026 7:16 PM

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The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Monday afternoon and, after a four-year hiatus of holding a sitting president to account, they climbed back aboard their high horses to dole out seven prizes for Trump-bashing “journalism” to the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post.

Come Tuesday morning, the Media Research Center will present the fifth annual Bulldog Awards, spotlighting outstanding achievements in conservative media across eight categories (Behind Enemy Lines, Columnist, Investigative Reporting, Podcast, Reporting, Social Media Personality, Talk Radio Host, and Lifetime Achievement) to honor those Pulitzer committee would never consider.

Back on the left, though, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service — considered the most prestigious category — went to The Washington Post for stories that, as stated by administrator Marjorie Miller, “pierc[ed] the veil of secrecy around the Trump administration’s chaotic overhaul of federal agencies and chronicl[ed] in rich detail the human impacts of the cuts and the consequences for the country.”

 

The other finalists were the “Chicago Tribune for its powerful coverage of the Trump administration’s militarized immigration sweep of the city,” and The Wall Street Journal for its smarmy stories ghoulishly insinuating Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were close, close friends.

The Investigative Reporting award went to The Times — beating out the San Francisco Chronicle on psych wards and ProPublica on generic drugs — for “deeply reported stories that exposed how President Trump has shattered constraints on conflicts of interest and exploited the moneymaking opportunities that come with power, enriching his family and allies.”

In terms of public impact, our 2026 MRC Bulldog Award winner for Outstanding Investigative Reporting runs circles around The Times’s partisan drivel.

Even the International and Local awards couldn’t escape being Trump-centric.

In International Reporting, the AP triumphed for “for an astonishing global investigation into the state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol.” 

One of the finalists — The New York Times — focused on the collapse of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Chicago Tribune took home the Local award “ for its powerful coverage of the Trump administration’s militarized immigration sweep of the city.”

The National Reporting was three-for-three in anti-Trump content. The award went to Reuters “for documenting how the President used the U.S. government and the influence of his supporters to expand executive power and exact vengeance on his foes,” beating Bloomberg on Trump ties to crypto and The Washington Post for Trump deportations.

The remaining anti-Trump Pulitzer came in Opinion Writing with works by non-binary New York Times contributing columnist “M. Gessen” — a woman pretending to be an it — that were deemed “an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw in history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging, and exile.”

Like with National Reporting, all three finalists came from the far left as Gessen won out over columns by The Times’s Nicholas Kristof on USAID and the Los Angeles Times’s Gustavo Arellano on Trump deportations.

The Pulitzers showed they’re on-board with the defamatory insinuation President Trump was an Epstein co-conspirator considering they gave a Special Citation to the Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown for stories about Epstein from 2007 and 2008.

They could have given this in any number of years prior, but their choice to do so now was no accident:

Other categories with Trump-bashing finalists (but not winners) included Explanatory Reporting (ProPublica on USAID), Beat Reporting (The Atlantic and New York Times on deportations), Criticism (New Yorker on right-wing media), Breaking News Photography (Reuters on Deportations), and Illustrated Reporting and Commentary (a Los Angeles Times and New Yorker contributor trashing Pete Hegseth and ICE and a syndicated freelancer on climate change, gun control, and the White House morphing into Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral)

The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography went to a New York Times photojournalist “for his haunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza resulting from the war with Israel.”

There were only four journalism categories without an anti-Trump winner and/or finalist with Breaking News going to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for its coverage of the August 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, Texas Monthly in Features for a first-person account of the Hill Country, Washington Post in Featured Photography for a “photo essay on young family welcoming the birth of their first child as the father is slowly dying from cancer,” and Pablo Torre Finds Out in Audio for reporting about the Los Angeles Clippers.

The Pulitzer committee also hand out awards in “Books, Music, and Drama,” which are also cesspools of liberal buffoonery.

For example, Drama went to a play celebrating feminism in the 1970s while far-left pundit Jill Lepore won in History for a book whining about the Constitution as archaic and too difficult to radically change.

The Pulitzer people gushed it was actually “a lively and engaging narrative that investigates why the Constitution is so difficult to amend, including a review of noteworthy failed amendments proposed by marginalized groups.”

And while it was a finalist, behold this doozy in Fiction:

Before all this, however, Pulitzer Prize administrator Miller delivered absurdly pompous opening remarks seemingly embracing May the Fourth by channeling Emperor Palpatine from Revenge of the Sith:

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