Trump Takes On The Media

By Neenah Payne

Donald Trump has been under attack by the corporate media, Big Tech, and the Democrats in a variety of ways since 2016 when he first won the Presidency. They called him a “threat to democracy” and tried to bar his return to power through four cases of lawfare. They even threatened to jail him before the Republican National Convention in July. Trump survived two assassination attempts. NYT: Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump With the Law. They Lost.

Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Republicans will control the House and Senate. Now, even as President-elect, Trump Is commanding respect at home and abroad. Trump was invited to = the re-opening of Notre Dame in Paris where he charmed First Lady Jill Biden so spectacularly that he used the photo on his social media site to promote his perfume “Fight”!

Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada rushed to Mar-A-Lago, Trump’s Winter White House, when Trump threatened to put a 25% tariff on Canada if it doesn’t close its border to illegal aliens.

Doocy: Trump is in a honeymoon period like we’ve never seen before shows that Big Tech titans and the corporate media are rushing to Mar-A-Lago to support and court President-elect Trump.

Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump’s inauguration fund shows that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos of Amazon (owner of The Washington Post), and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (parent company of Instagram and Facebook) are each contributing $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a meeting scheduled with Trump. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said of Trump, “We are turning the page, his publication Time declared Trump “Person of Year.”

Trump: Time 2024 Person of The Year
President-elect Trump rings opening bell at NYSE 12/12/24
J6 Bombshell Report Reveals FBI Role links to the Interim Report On The Failures and Politicization of The January 6 Select Committee. Republicans are calling for a criminal indictment of Liz Cheney who served as Vice Chair of the J6 Committee for reported witness tampering which is a felony.

Trump Humiliates ABC News/Stephanopoulos

Trump 2.0 greets the press with a fight 12/18/24

What’s new is that he’s about to be president again, and he has multiple pending lawsuits against media organizations. The other big new factor is that ABC just settled for an astonishing $16 million – a $15 million donation and $1 million in attorneys fees. When I saw the ABC settlement, the first word that popped in my head was the word “emboldened.” Clearly, this settlement has emboldened Trump and his allies, and I think we see that in the Des Moines Register lawsuit that was filed on Monday.

Humiliation for ABC News as it’s forced to pay Trump $15 million after Stephanopoulos lies

THE ABC has been humiliated again after they were forced to settle a defamation case brought on by Trump following lies told by their star host George Stephanopoulos. The network will pay $15 million to a Presidential foundation and museum set up by Trump.

Disney’s Settlement With Trump

Disney’s Settlement With Donald Trump: Bob Iger’s $16 Million Decision, Fear at ABC News and Questions About George Stephanopoulos’ Future

‘Furious’ George Stephanopoulos’ pay cut after $16 million Trump settlement

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos’ contract has been renewed by Disney despite having the $US16 million settlement. According to The New York Post, Disney decided to renew Stephanopoulos’ contract because they didn’t want “his blood on their hands”.

The anchor was reportedly given a multi-year deal but was forced to take a pay cut from his $US20 million contract, according to sources. A longtime executive from ABC News spoke to The New York Post following Stephanopoulos’ renewal.

“No one wants a talent mess on their hands. No one wants an angry George Stephanopoulos loose in the world. No one wants to humiliate George by firing him or to have his blood on their hands,” the source said.

Stephanopoulos Was Repeatedly Warned

George Stephanopoulos Was Repeatedly Warned Not to Use the Word ‘Rape’… But Didn’t Listen 12/19/24

Megyn Kelly is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The End of Everything,” to discuss how George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly warned not to say the word “rape” but decided to anyway, how Joy Reid and MSNBC downplayed the mistake, and more.

CNN Ratings Sink To All-Time Low

CNN Rating sink to all-time low in vital demographic for advertisers – as left-leaning networks plummet after Trump win 12/18/24

Ratings-challenged CNN plummeted to a new all-time low in the most coveted demographic for advertisers — a downfall exacerbated by viewers tuning out left-leaning networks following President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming election win.

The cable news pioneer — which is in the midst of a major overhaul that will reportedly include mass layoffs — averaged 92,000 total day viewers in the key 25-to-54-year-old demo this year, a 1% drop from the previous rock bottom of 94,000 it notched last year, according to Nielsen data first reported by Mediaite.

CNN suffered a 52% decline in its primetime demo since the election, pulling in a measly average audience of 77,000, according to Nielsen. Its overall primetime viewership shriveled by 45% this year to 405,000 viewers, the data showed. Just 11% of cable news viewers tuned in to CNN’s primetime shows after Trump’s election win — lagging behind left-leaning rival MSNBC’s 16%….Just 11% of cable news viewers tuned in to CNN’s primetime shows after Trump’s election win — lagging behind left-leaning rival MSNBC’s 16%.

Meanwhile, conservative network Fox News drew a staggering 72% of all eyeballs in primetime, according to Nielsen…. Fox’s primetime viewership has grown 7% since the election compared with its October average, according to Nielsen data earlier cited by the Hollywood Reporter. The network also extended its reign as the No. 1 cable news channel in total viewers and the key 25-54 demographic for the ninth year in a row.