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1 month ago | 
mediamatters.org | Kayla R Gogarty |Courtney Hagle |John Whitehouse |Payton Armstrong |Jack Wheatley |Jack Winstanley | +6 more
In a new study of top pro-Trump online shows in the days after President Donald Trump launched his formal tariff plan, Media Matters has found some dissension as his economic policy disrupts the global economy — even as this ecosystem still overwhelmingly supports him.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Noah Dowe |Pete Tsipis |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski | +1 more
Right-wing media are predicting a “golden age” as President Donald Trump's so-called “Liberation Day” hits some of the United States’ closest trading partners with sweeping tariffs.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Noah Dowe |Jack Wheatley |Gideon Taaffe
On March 24, The Atlantic published a bombshell story from Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg reporting that he had been mistakenly added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal in which senior Trump administration officials discussed plans for a U.S. military strike in Yemen.
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2 months ago | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Gideon Taaffe |Jack Wheatley |Pete Tsipis
Right-wing media have continued their crusade against judges who challenge President Donald Trump and his administration, attacking a federal judge who issued an order to halt the deportation of approximately 250 suspected gang members. After the administration failed to stop the flight, Judge James Boasberg demanded details on the Department of Justice’s “possible defiance” of the order.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Jack Winstanley |Kayla R Gogarty |Jack Wheatley
President Donald Trump has been openly courting MAGA media figures — giving them significant access to his new administration and even appointing former Fox News hosts to prominent positions in the government. The Trump administration has simultaneously welcomed MAGA influencers into the White House, Cabinet departments, and other federal agencies while restricting access of mainstream media that have long covered those institutions.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
nationalmemo.com | Gideon Taaffe |Chloe Simon
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a Senate vote to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, right-wing media are split on whether to support his nomination. Some claim the nominee — who has a long history of undermining scientific research and promoting health misinformation — is a “bipartisan” solution for “Making America Healthy Again,” while others have highlighted his past extremism, Democratic affiliations, and pro-abortion beliefs.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Chloe Simon
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a Senate vote to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, right-wing media are split on whether to support his nomination. Some claim the nominee — who has a long history of undermining scientific research and promoting health misinformation — is a “bipartisan” solution for “Making America Healthy Again,” while others have highlighted his past extremism, Democratic affiliations, and pro-abortion beliefs.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Lis Power |Gideon Taaffe
Right-wing media have been quick to obscure the facts about President Donald Trump’s pardon of January 6 rioters, suggesting that he pardoned only nonviolent offenders and ignoring the pardons that went to violent offenders who assaulted police and carried weapons.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe
Many conservative media figures have come out in support of playing political games with aid for victims of the wildfires in California. As House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated the idea that the aid to California could come with conditions, right-wing media have speculated about what punitive conditions they would like to see, including telling environmentalists to “pound sand” and suggesting the federal government “attach strings that this could no longer be a sanctuary state.”
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Sage Hodil
Zuckerberg began to cozy up to Trump following the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, despite Trump’s previous calls for the Meta CEO to be imprisoned. Speaking to Bloomberg in July 2024, Zuckerberg praised Trump’s response to the shooting as “one of the most badass things” he had ever seen but did not explicitly endorse the campaign. [NBC News, 7/19/24] Zuckerberg had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, and Meta donated $1 million to his inauguration fund.
