Mike Johnson

On Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson gave CBS’s Margaret Brennan what many considered to be a much-needed education on the House’s Big Beautiful Bill’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reforms. However, on Thursday, PolitiFact’s Loreben Tuquero asserted that it was Johnson who was the “false” one, although she had to torch a straw man to do so.

CBS’s Margaret Brennan butted heads with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday’s installment of Face the Nation over the proposed tax cuts in what has been dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The proposed cuts mentioned in the segment were regarding ending Medicaid and S.N.A.P. fraud, as well as cutting back on erroneous spending by government agencies.

The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.

On their Wednesday episode, ABC’s The View spewed their usual vitriol about the Trump administration, with Joy Behar especially going above and beyond. As the rest of the panel cheered her on, she spun an on-the-spot conspiracy theory, with zero to flimsy evidence, about Trump plotting to declare martial law and make himself a dictator. She threw that piece of fiction out there as…

For his Sunday show, HBO’s John Oliver decided to take a deep dive into the world of transgender sports. The Last Week Tonight host tried to concede that the issue is maybe more complicated than bathroom preference, but what he ultimately ended up doing was missing the point as he argued that even in famous examples of transgender athletes winning competitions, the stories are more…

ABC’s Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos held back-to-back exclusive interviews Wednesday with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for reaction to President Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress. To the shock of likely no one, Stephanopoulos badgered Johnson while barely…

Being on the West Coast, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had the ability to react to President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on his Tuesday show. Naturally, Kimmel’s reaction included plenty of insults directed Trump’s way, but he also suggested Speaker Mike Johnson got an erection when he kicked Rep. Al Green out of the chamber for disruptive behavior.

Speaker Mike Johnson popped CNN’s bubble on Wednesday, and The Source host Kaitlan Collins was not happy about it. During an interview, Collins tried to tell Johnson that he simply couldn’t say that the anti-DOGE protestors who are showing up at town halls across the country are paid activists.

PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”

On Tuesday, PolitiFact showed why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to end the company’s partnership with its fact-checking partners. Writer Caleb McCullough gave Donald Trump Jr. a “false” rating because he ran afoul of his preferred experts while ignoring experts who may have given him another perspective. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed during an attack on Speaker Mike…

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski gave a surprisingly candid take on the Trump pardons versus the Biden pardons. She recognizes that granting the pardons is Trump's right, and whereas Trump kept his promise of pardoning J6 participants, Biden did not keep his word that he would not pardon Hunter or other family members.

After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg agreed to end fact-checking and turn back censorship on his platforms, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell exposed how Zuckerberg’s announcement was a vindication of the serious grievances and hard work of free speech advocates.

Both the PBS News Hour and PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable Washington Week in Review used the new 199^th Congress and Rep. Mike Johnson narrowly winning the vote to become Speaker of the House to break out their biased labeling tricks. Washington Week moderator and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (along with contributors Leigh Ann Caldwell and David Ignatius of…

As the media switch from Regime to Resistance, so switches the way legislation is framed and reported to the American public. Viewers of CNN's State of the Union witnessed such an example in real time, when host Jake Tapper and Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) discussed the renewal of portions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: more commonly known as the Trump tax cuts.