Remember when President Trump pledged to lower drug prices? Well, they just recorded their sharpest drop in decades and the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news networks were nowhere to be found.
The Washington Post reporters Steve Thompson, Federica Cocco and Christopher Rowland reported August 13 that drug prices fell a whopping 3.1 percent in July, the steepest decline “since 1963” according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
The journos typically tried to do everything to avoid give Trump credit and instead toss the kudos to — *checks notes* — former President Joe Biden! “The White House took credit for the good news, saying President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash drug prices were working. Some experts said a Biden-era policy that requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some popular prescription drugs is more likely to be driving down costs.” Did The Post provide any evidence for that assumption? Of course not. They just threw Biden’s insane $739 billion climate change bill out there as a generally accepted source for drug price relief:
The Inflation Reduction Act was a signature accomplishment of former president Joe Biden, a sprawling measure enacted in 2022 that aimed to lower prescription drug prices by requiring Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly, to begin negotiating the prices it pays drugmakers for an array of popular and costly prescription drugs.
It’s as if TrumpRx, which the White House announced in February to offer a comparative database for prescription drugs with the subsequent landmark support of billionaire Mark Cuban and Amazon Pharmacy, wasn’t even a thing. In fact, “TrumpRx” wasn’t even mentioned until the eighth paragraph. The liberal Kaiser Family Foundation even noted in February that “TrumpRx may be an economical option for those who face high out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs before they meet their plan’s deductible, especially those who do not reach their annual deductible at all.” Even The Post reporters ended up undercutting themselves: “While the results are stark, teasing out the cause is complicated, independent experts said.”
But irrespective of the newspaper’s ridiculous spin, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the news at all. And why should they make Trump’s policies look good right before the midterms? ABC News Live just tried throwing cold water on the broader BLS data showing that consumer prices were cooling in July. In fact, none of the evening networks even mentioned the consumer price news during their August 12 coverage either. It was just one all-around media blackout on the stuff directly impacting people’s wallets! ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir did find precious airtime to talk about elks in at the Redwood National and State Parks August 13 though.
Apparently elk coverage was more important to David than the fact that drug prices had their sharpest decline in 60 years. pic.twitter.com/SLeNfQvKJp
— Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) August 14, 2026
These media hacks really think their viewers and readers shouldn't know anything that might be considered good news under Trump.
