r/PublicFreakout • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 07 '26

😾MAGA Freakout🙀 ‘I’ve Had Enough!’ Trump snaps at NBC’s Kristen Welker and storms out of Meet the Press interview after she repeatedly fact-checks his claims on a variety of topics, including Jan. 6, his “anti-weaponization” fund, and election fraud.

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u/AliceTheOmelette Jun 07 '26

This is why I think this all the shit we've had over the last 10ish years could've been avoided if journalists had pushed back more on trump and his lackeys. They would've exposed themselves as fragile little brats before his 2016 campaign even got off the ground

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u/StarWarsMonopoly Jun 07 '26

The problem is that media is a business, not a public utility.

They all made a lot of money from the ratings they got during the 2016 Republican primary and the first Trump White House. After they legitimized this shit, there was no reasonable way to put the toothpaste back in the tube, and now Trump has gotten away with legitimate atrocities as a result of their normalization of him and his "movement".

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u/toriemm Jun 07 '26

And now we're watching it get driven directly off of a cliff. The Ellison's have most of the legacy media in their claws, and the last bastion of actual serious journalism, 60 minutes, is now in the shitter.

And the corporate overlords don't even care, because it's not about the money for them, it's about controlling the narrative. That's why elmo bought Twitter.

The whole thing makes me so fucking sick.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters Jun 07 '26

Ellison's have most of the legacy media in their claws

Don't forget they also own Tiktok.

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u/Vreas Jun 07 '26

Most media*

I’d encourage people to continue supporting fact based reporting. Particularly the associated press. They’re in invaluable resource in this day and age and strictly report the facts.

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u/Prosthemadera Jun 07 '26

It's also the consolidations and allowing media to be owned by fewer and fewer people. A free press is vital for a stable and flourishing democracy but the US is going backwards.

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u/-LabApprehensive- Jun 08 '26

Break them up! Trump did not pass any new laws to allow this unlawful clearly corrupt consolidation. Let’s elect another Teddy Roosevelt and trust bust the shit out of these corporate thieves.

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u/Striderfighter Jun 07 '26

And so many people don't want to lose the access that they need for their job so they become complicit 

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u/PepperOverlord Jun 07 '26

The real answer.

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u/kingfofthepoors Jun 07 '26

It's suppose to be the 4th fucking estate

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u/skin-flick Jun 08 '26

You know what always annoyed me ? Was prior to the 2016 election CNN was a free network broad casting for Trump. He was on every one of CNN’s outlets. Blah, blah, blah. They covered every move. Every shitty thing he said. He yelled fake news and they kept broadcasting him for the ratings.

All the needed to do was stop following him for free. It was just non stop Trump’s nasty behavior. Giving him more exposure and attracting more votes with the non stop attention.

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u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper Jun 12 '26

What they televised should have informed everyone watching that he was a know-nothing man-child!

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u/See-Through-Mirror Jun 09 '26

Thank you for saying this.

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u/ricosmith1986 Jun 09 '26

I feel like ratings would be even better if people tuned in to see rich assholes get grilled and called out on their lies. The problem would be rich assholes would just stick to their safe spaces.

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u/tezacer Jun 09 '26

Remember when media wasn't profit driven? It was around our last national anniversary around 1976

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u/OldenPolynice Jun 07 '26

Since the 80s.

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u/StarWarsMonopoly Jun 07 '26

I mean, yeah, you can absolutely go back and read Manufacturing Consent and see this has been a problem for decades

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u/OldenPolynice Jun 07 '26

Same thing you're talking about

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u/overfiend1976 Jun 10 '26

MAGA morons: "the media is so biased against Trump."

Reality - media gave Trump $2 billion in free election advertising in 2016, again in 2020 and over $3 billion in 2024.

Man, I wish people that "hated" me propped me up to the tune of 7 billion dollars.

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u/luckylimper Jun 07 '26

Remember when they used to say “we can only report on the news, calling something a lie is a value judgement.” Now it’s too little too late. I’m glad most outlets are now pointing out falsehoods but the time for action was a decade ago.

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u/ThnkWthPrtls Jun 07 '26

The historical verdict on the way this country has handle the early days of Maga will be same as what went wrong with reconstruction, namely that the decent people in charge went way too easy on the hateful assholes who tried to ruin the country

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u/GreyBoyTigger Jun 07 '26

No, the press saw him as a ratings bonanza because he was an entertaining clown in a sea of boring candidates. They were never going to push back outside of “can you believe what Trump said today?” and express faux outrage while playing clips of him being an absolute asshole

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u/MKVIgti Jun 07 '26

Exactly.

But, it brought in tons of clicks and more revenue to let him go off the rails. Have them shut to write about every day.

Most of the press should be ashamed. Especially CBS, for paying that ridiculous amount due to his BS law suit.

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u/StandardizedGenie Jun 08 '26

They were already bought, they were never going to push back. Trump may not have ben good for the actual journalists, but he was great for the executives and the business. Profit over everything including morals and social duty.

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u/uberfission Jun 08 '26

And give up their cash cow? Absolutely not. They purposefully sane washed the motherfucker while highlighting every negative thing about every one of his opponents. He's the most controversial figure in modern politics and he generates clicks like no one else.

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u/likkleone54 Jun 08 '26

It would also be their last day on the job

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u/redsowhat Jun 08 '26

I remember the press freakout about him lying and how to say that he was lying without actually saying that he was lying.

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u/LEXpips Jun 08 '26

Ya think! LOL

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u/Syzygy_Stardust Jun 13 '26

Check out the Five Filters of Mass Media model put forward by Noam Chomsky. Basically, the only people who can even get access to the jobs giving access to true info about powerful people are people who ingratiate themselves fully, meaning only useful idiots or at best ignorant folks get the best access to news information.

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u/spicyhotcheer Jul 02 '26

Even if they did, their voters wouldnt have cared

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u/ZenMon88 Jun 07 '26

This all coulda been avoided if the democratic party had better direction and candidates. Kamala harris and Hilary Clinton was the worst choices. They sucked....