Yellow Journalism is Not Extinct

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” Dr.Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

“Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately.” President Donald John Trump.

What the bootlicking, legacy dregs of the mainstream media are worth, as they continue to lie, distort and deceive.

In 2016, then Private Citizen Donald John Trump announced his intention and subsequently garnered an upset for the ages. He was, and once again being treated in an overwhelmingly hostile, hideous and unfavorable manner by the troglodyte dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist, corporate legacy mainstream media. Throughout the course of the 2024 Presidential Election cycle, similar to 2016, and continuing in a most amped manner, including into a successful act two, POTUSDJT has been attacked by the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media in the most insidious manner. Aside from the vile and vicious name calling, there have been a number of events reported by the mainstream media that cited unverified “unnamed sources” that turned out to be false, then recanted or leaked to the media…see ICE raids in Colorado and the DOJ knows who the leakers are.

Since the election, the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media are spreading half-truths and sensational headlines in order to get more clicks and higher ratings, which have sunk faster than the Titanic. To that end, numerous reporters, tech staff and producers from MSNBC have been fired due to hideous ratings. After the 2016 presidential election, numerous personnel from the Clown News Network (CNN), had admitted on film that they were ordered by their bosses to go after POTUSDJT. As the campaign season progressed, then candidate POTUSDJT coined the term “fake news,” which is still very much in use today by our Chief Executive.

However, as former President Donald John Trump campaigned once again as the identified underdog, this time against Kamala Harris, who easily was the least qualified candidate, and most incompetent candidate the DNC presented after torpedoing DementiaJoe, after his disastrous presidential debate. Once and again, POTUSDJT made it loud and clear that CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times were tools of the radical, extremists of the progressive liberal left as they covered up Biden’s cognitive decline with ongoing statements that he was sharp and articulate, while making presidential decisions. Once and again, POTUSDJT had proven to be absolutely correct.

Included in the progressive liberal left was non-other than the dishonest, hypocritical, self-centered and self-serving, misogynistic, overrated and over the hill people who consider themselves talented entertainers. Part of this gaggle is one George Clooney, who hasn’t done anything worthwhile in forever. Clooney, along with a plethora of Hollywood “celebrities” who supported and endorsed DementiaJoe during rallies and financially. After the debate Clooney was one of the first from Hollywood to jump ship pining for Biden to remove himself from running for re-election. Clooney published an opt-ed calling out DementiaJoe. Eventually Clooney told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who is an ardent leftist, that the Biden coverup was the fault of the Democratic Party and that of the mainstream media. He admitted that Biden was just not capable of serving another four years and was not sharp. Clooney finally caught on after the horse had left the barn.

Furthermore, in spite of the phenomenal job he is doing during round two, including his knowledge, love and respect of American History, and the American citizen in general, as opposed to his predecessor who was decidedly anti-American, as was his joke of an administration. In 2017, POTUSDJT had morphed the colloquial term “Yellow Journalism” into the more commonly used term, “Fake News.” Yellow Journalism as defined by Wikipedia, or yellow press, “is an American term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering or sensationalism.” There are two major events in American History of which yellow news set the trend and will be briefly cited. In other words, “Fake News.”

Paul Revere

In connection with the 1765 Quartering Act, British troops had been stationed in Boston since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation, including the Stamp Act as an example. On March 5, 1770, on Devonshire Street near the Olde State House in Boston, British soldiers shot and killed several Colonial citizens while under attack from a mob. The incident was heavily publicized and promoted by the Sons of Liberty, lead by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. This was to push the idea of revolution against the Crown. There were ongoing stressful and tense relations between the citizens of Boston and the assigned soldiers. An angry mob surrounded a British sentry, who was being harassed and verbally threatened. Eight reinforcements arrived, and were eventually hit by rocks, clubs and snowballs. The soldiers fired, without orders, killing three and mortally wounding two.

A few days after “The Boston Massacre,” Henry Pelham, a Boston artist, depicted the event. Revere, the aforementioned member of The Sons of Liberty, and a well known silversmith, closely copied Pelham’s image, and is often miscredited as its originator. The Boston Gazette published the image, which was widely circulated and became an important and very effective piece of anti-Crown propaganda. Additionally, anonymous pamphlets were published describing the event from significantly different perspectives. Fake news 18th Century style.

On a side note, John Adams, who was a prominent New England attorney, a Son of Liberty, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Second POTUS, defended the soldiers, including their commander, Captain Thomas Preston. All but two, including Preston, were acquitted. The two guilty soldiers received a scarlet letter on their hands.

Captain Sigsbee

As the 19th Century was coming to a close, the United States was an emerging world power and increasing global influence. On the evening of February 15, 1898, the United States warship USS Maine, under the command of Captain Charles Dwight Sigsbee, exploded in Havana Harbor. The Maine was dispatched to protect American interests during the Cuban Revolution against Spain. Without any warning, she exploded and foundered, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause(s) of the Maine’s explosion and sinking was investigated by President William McKinley administration’s appointed naval board of inquiry. The consensus of the board was that Maine was destroyed by an external explosion from a mine.

Nevertheless, popular opinion in the country, encouraged by inflammatory articles printed in the “yellow journalism” newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, blamed Spain. The phrase, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” became a rallying cry for action, from which became the Spanish-American War. The military action started after President McKinley requested a Declaration of War, starting on April 21, 1898. While the sinking of the Maine was not a direct cause for action, it served as a catalyst, accelerating the diplomatic disagreements between the US and Spain.

Major General Wesley Merritt (April 16, 1836-December 3, 1910) USMA Class 1861

The Spanish-American War would serve to be the first overseas conflict fought by the US. It involved major campaigns in both Cuba and the Philippine Islands, generated by yellow news. By the way, one of my heroes, Major General Wesley Merritt, led the American AEF into the Philippines.

Admiral Hyman Rickover

On side note, in 1976, Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy, commissioned a private investigation into the Maine’s explosion, and National Geographic continued the investigation in 1999, using computer simulations. All the investigations agreed that an explosion of the forward magazines caused the destruction of the ship, but different conclusions were reached as to how the magazines could have exploded. McKinley’s leading Naval ordnance expert, Captain Philip R. Alger, USNA Class of 1880, took this theory further by suggesting that the magazines were ignited by a spontaneous fire in a coal bunker. The wreck of the Maine was eventually refloated, taken out to sea, and sunk in order to remain on eternal patrol. Yellow news took us to war in 1898.

Captain Philip Alger

In present time, the progressive extremists of the liberal leftist establishment are pulling the strings of the belligerent and bellicose mainstream media, just as a puppeteer would do. We do know for certain that the extremists of the liberal left lost their collective minds, “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” ever since POTUSDJT was duly elected in 2016, and their irrational actions and accusations are nonstop, continuing with the two false accusations of Russian collusion and calls of a Constitutional crisis with DOGE and attempting to garner a ceasefire leading to peace with the Ukraine and Russia. The bootlicking dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist corporate mainstream media are still calling POTUSDJT a racist and a bigot, as the hypocritical and hysterical left still cannot wrap their arms around the fact that Harris lost. Now they are continuing with amped up attacks. Yellow news to fake news!

Whether it’s the electronic or print media, the false, vile and evil things being reported have just gotten more bizarre. There remains criticism of how he consumes Diet Coke, including having a soda button on his desk. Big deal. The man puts in all kinds of crazy hours, in a nonstop schedule, as opposed to DementiaJoe’s late to rise, early to bed schedule, with naps in between. The puppets from the unprepossessing mainstream media had questioned President Donald John Trump’s mental acuity and former CNN troll April Ryan had audacity to ask Admiral/Doctor Ronnie Jackson, POTUSDJT’s (along with GW Bush and Obama) White House personal physician, if the POTUS was a drug addict. The fake news at its worst.

Admiral/Doctor (Ret.) and now Representative Ronny Jackson(R-TX)

In short order, President Donald John Trump(#47) once again has a big job ahead of him as he continues to undo the damage inflicted on the country by Biden, Harris, USAG Merrick Garland, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the rest of the most corrupt, sorriest, dirtiest administration since President Ulysses Grant, although it was no fault of Grant. Yet as the layers of corruption and treason are being peeled away to open the public’s eyes, the bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media still absolutely refuse to address the crimes against the country and the lawfare committed against POTUSDJT.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Furthermore, Representative Auntie Maxine (D-CA) remains a screamer as she is encouraging “pushing back” and harassing White House staff, while verbally threatening POTUSDJT, for which she should be censured. Violence has been promulgated by her hateful and harsh words, which her followers adhere to. She is out of touch with America and out of touch with reality and ignored by the mainstream media. It’s become quite apparent that extremist liberal leftist politicians are going to sit idly by while these acts of aggression continue to happen when all they have to do to stop it is condemn and censure those responsible. Like Auntie Maxine. Nothing reported by the mainstream media. Nothing done by Congress.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

The mainstream media has taken to their familiar playbook when covering the Trump administration 2.0. They employ loaded questions, spin the coverage, and harbor a hostility that runs deep for many of the bootlicking dregs of the mainstream media covering the White House, the Pentagon and other government agencies. This act is getting old. As a case in point, during a recent presser Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was taking questions from reporters about recent leadership changes at the Department of Defense. The atmosphere in the room was thick as Hegseth was peppered for details about POTUSDJT’s military leadership nominations. One member of the media encouraged by the hostile media environment, took the road to a fiercely intense line of questioning that took an accusatory tone. Hegseth, not one to take crap from anyone, offered a response that left the room quiet. The question posed: “Mr. Secretary, why did you select an under-qualified retired lieutenant general to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?” Hegseth returned fire: “I’m gonna choose to REJECT your unqualified question!” The changes have outraged the swamp bureaucracy with dismissals of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of the Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force. And the removals are neither racist or misogynistic. How about plain incompetence or lack of qualifications. This is the exact response that would not happened under the DementiaJoe administration without any accountability.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt

The White House announced that its press staff will determine which media members are eligible for the White House press pool rather than the White House Correspondences’ Association. Press secretary, Caroline Leavitt announced this major shake up during the recent briefing. She added that the outlets who have been denied access to the pressers would be added to the press pool rotation. There have been news outlets denied to partake in White House pressers having been blocked by the legacy mainstream media outlets. Leavitt kicked open the door to new media members not only those who harshly criticized President Donald John Trump. The first two additions were Breitbart News’ Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle, and Axios co-founder Mike Allen. They were the first new media members to sit in the seats for beginning the press briefing and were presented with the first questions that traditionally go to the Associated Press, who were removed from the White House press conferences, due to their confrontation agenda. The AP filed a restraining order against Leavitt, the White House, deputy chief of staff, Taylor, Budowhich, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, for removing the outlet from accessing designated events. A federal judge denied the restraining order. This is the bootlicking dregs of the legacy corporate mainstream media getting a dose of their own medicine. The leftist media has spun their last story as the White House is finally taking a stand against the rampant misinformation. And let’s not forget that Biden conducted only a handful of pressers which were a bad joke, where he would take three or four questions from preselected reporters, whose names and photographs were printed on a cheat card.

And DementiaJoe didn’t hold a presser until two months into his one and only term. On the other hand President Donald John Trump has taken more than 1,000 questions from reporters and is available every day. He invites reporters into his suite on Air Force One, conducts impromptu press conferences in the Oval Office while signing executive orders and holds regular press conferences that exhaust every question.

Ick!!!

Furthermore, there’s an old Klingon saying that: “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” In this case, the self-revenge was taken against the mutts at CNN and MSNBC. There are more people working at each network than are watching on a daily basis. With their ratings in the toilet, that left the network executives to go Elon’s DOGE on the personnel, yet their on air “talent” harshly criticize President Donald John Trump’s promise to shrink the Federal Government that Biden bloated at our expense. As a case in point, MSNBC took the ax to Joy Reid‘s show and canceled it. Reid did not lose her show because of being a documented homophobe, a demented liar or a divisive racist who spews conspiracy theories. This kept her in the game. The show was canceled because Reid’s ratings were in the trash. Reid saw a 47% drop from the 1.4 million viewers prior to the 2024 election. The 25-54 age bracket tanked to 52,000, which determines advertising rates. When President Donald John Trump resoundingly won the 2024 election after stomping the word salad Harris, Fox News’ ratings and viewership spiked north, while taking chunks of CNN and MSNBC‘s audiences. Apparently both networks viewership got tired of being lied to and hearing ridiculous and unfettered conspiracy theories…see the Hillary Clinton funded Russian collusion story.

Additionally, as reported by the New York Post, “CBS News has come under fire for its alleged media bias and editorial decision making.” In October 2024, during the presidential election, “60 Minutes” showed an interview with then VPOTUS Harris. She was asked numerous questions about the Biden administration’s policies towards Israel. Apparently, CBS released two separate clips previewing the broadcast which showed Harris giving two very different answers. The broadcast that was aired had one of her answers condensed. Then candidate Trump sued CBS News and Paramount, the parent company, making the claim that the edits were intended to deceive the public in order to make Harris more concise and succinct, which goes against her usual mindless word salads. This is now facing mediation in an attempt to prevent the case from going to trial. Go figure that a leftist network would try to fix Harris in the same manner that they attempted to hide Biden’s cognitive decline. Fake news!!

Harris-CBS’ Tim Walz

And let’s not forget that in just over one month President Donald John Trump has met with the mainstream media at least 50 times and answered than Biden did in four years…without the use of cheat cards, teleprompters and pre-arranged questions, with pre-arranged reporters, who were pre-identified on the aforementioned cheat cards with photos. Moreover, POTUSDJT held the first Cabinet meeting of his presidency 2.0, which was open to the media. The hourlong meeting covered various topics and issues, ending with Trump answering reporters’ questions on Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan, the House Republicans’ budget plan, and more.

Zelenskyy came to the meeting with his hands out expecting billions more, as if Biden was still in the White House. He found that there was a new sheriff in town, who puts America first. Zelenskyy crossed his arms, pouted like a spoiled child who didn’t get his way and was sent to his room. Yet, Zelenskyy knows that he must make the deal in order to have American interests in the Ukraine, which really is the security he wants. This would give Putin second thoughts at any further escalation, while keeping the draconian Communist Chinese Republic in check. And the knuckleheads from the mainstream media and the radical, progressive left fail to see the global picture as President Donald John Trump seeks peace, while Biden was adhering to the whims of the industrial military complex, feeding the fight.

And speaking of the Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conference with POTUSDJT didn’t go as initially planned, as Zelenskyy was not only disrespectful to President Donald John Trump, but also to the Office of the President and the US. So, signing a treaty that would make available that country’s minerals and other resources, while continuing to receive military assistance, and attempting to reimburse the billions that DementiaJoe had authorized has been put on hold. Under George W. Bush, in 2008, Russia invaded Ossetia and Georgia. In 2014, under the Obama administration, the Russians invaded the Donbas and Crimea…and got blankets. Three years ago, February 24, 2022, under DementiaJoe, who was actually correct about the Russian invasion and did nothing for months, the Russians once again crossed the border and tried to take Kyiv. There has been fighting since. From 2017-2021 the Russians did not cross the border. Why? Because none of the three aforementioned presidents were in office. President Donald John Trump was. Peace through strength!

Trump demanded a share of Ukraine’s rich mineral deposits, as recompense for the more than $175 billion the United States has given to the country in military and civilian aid since the 2022 Russian invasion.

But isn’t fascinating that in under two months President Donald John Trump has the Ukraine-Russia war on the verge of ending? Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed Zelenskyy for arguing with President Donald John Trump and Vice President JD Vance during an explosive Oval Office meeting, telling reporters Kyiv’s leader should consider his political future.I wonder if Biden will attempt to take credit for any peace initiatives taken by the current administration. This stuff usually goes on behind closed door with a brief statement, but this was for the public to see. And of course, the unprepossessing, bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media and the radical, progressive liberals opened their stale playbook criticizing POTUSDJT. They still got nothing else, as they fail to understand POTUSDJT’s agenda. Zelenskyy met with the President with his hands, expecting more money and when he didn’t get his way, Zelenskyy crossed his arms and had a childish hissy fit. The only thing he didn’t do was stomp his feet. He thought that he could bully President Donald John Trump, like DementiaJoe. Zelenskyy failed to grasp that there’s a new sheriff in DC.

Trump- Macron

Moreover, during the week of February 24-28, 2025, President Donald John Trump hosted two major pressers with French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer. Imagine two major pressers with questions and answers not predetermined. And as for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Well, the expected mineral deal has been put on hold. And when President Donald John Trump ends the presser, it goes on until reporters essentially run out of questions, while never hearing him ask for permission to get additional questions ala DementiaJoe.

Trump-Starmer

As it stands right now, the Democratic Party, as we knew it, no longer exists. The current group is a socialist disaster that wants to destroy American exceptionalism, dissolve the country as we know it and rewrite our history. Of course the mainstream media is promoting a failed philosophy. Venezuela anyone? Fake news!

To quote Greg Gutfeld: “The contrast that reflects the difference between each party’s souls is that the soul of the Republicans is spontaneity. The soul of the Democratic Party is choreography…creating artificial, strictly manufactured narratives that make honesty impossible. Trump’s honesty is hard to fake because you can’t lie on the fly. You can’t mastermind a coverup when you answer every question quicker than a magic eight ball that just did an eight ball. What do the Dems have? Overwhelmed by reality, they have the same load bearing phrases: “Dictator” “Fascist” “Authoritarian.” It’s like a prerecorded message coming from a windup doll that no child wants to play with anymore. If they don’t figure something new, they will end up on the trash heap at the local dump.” But the results from the 2024 election have clearly demonstrated that has already occurred. Trump is far more disciplined and cranky this time around as he answers questions.

The resistance from the radical, progressive left and the bootlicking dregs of the corporate mainstream media, who are the malignant narcissists, are still trying to shove lies down America’s throat. And both groups have not learned from the 2024 Election Day referendum that now sees President Donald John Trump, with his highest pol numbers, a strong administration of non-bureaucratic outsiders, who adhere to an America First agenda, and in just a matter of weeks have clearly demonstrated just how weak, feeble, corrupt, incompetent, inept and fragile DementiaJoe was as his cognitively bankrupt abilities were covered up and lied about. But who was running the country?

So, the question that must be addressed is whether the bootlicking, grody dregs of the cosmopolitan biased, cultural supremacist corporate mainstream media is serving the needs of the American people or are they serving the extremists of the radical, progressive, liberal leftist establishment? I think it’s a clear answer that the extremists of the liberal left are so desperate to destroy President Donald John Trump, they would take the whole country down with them! The idea of patriotism and “America First” doesn’t exist for the extremists of the liberal left…only chaos. Oh My!!