Posted on 08/25/2025 6:46:34 AM PDT by karpov
President Trump went on a late-night attack against NBC and ABC News on Sunday, deriding them for what, in his view, was "biased" coverage and said he would be in favor of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoking their licenses.
The Republican president said the news outlets had given him negative coverage on "97%" of stories.
It wasn’t clear from where Trump was citing the "97%" figure. A study released earlier this year by the conservative media watchdog group, Media Research Center (MRC), found that coverage of the president’s first 100 days in office was "92% negative."
"IF THAT IS THE CASE," Trump wrote in his characteristic use of all caps, "THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED."
Trump said he would be "totally in favor" of the move because – according to him – these outlets are "so biased and untruthful, an actual threat to our Democracy."
The president followed up with another post attacking both outlets as "FAKE NEWS" and "two of the absolute worst and most biased networks anywhere in the world."
Trump questioned why both entities aren’t "paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE FEES."
"They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!!" Trump wrote. "Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!"
Fox News Digital has reached out to both ABC and NBC News for a response to Trump’s posts.
Being national networks, ABC and NBC News do not hold FCC licenses for news content but provide programming for local affiliates across the country
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Geez!
What a bunch of LEGALISTS on this site!
Do NOT take Trump literally here.
Trump is using the Bully Pulpit which is not his invention.
And throughout history the the Bully Pulpit has had some effect.
Agree but they should be fined millions when they knowing put out false information which happens daily.
They can hate Trump all they want but purposely putting lies should be against the law for any news agency and politician for that matter.
What law was that?
Politicians have been lying to the public on issues since there was an issue to lie about and a public to here it?
Also a “law” means legislation.
Leave it to you spineless squishes to crap all over an excellent troll on the left by President Trump. You must be one of the few who have grown tired of winning, while never tiring of whining.
In kind FA political propaganda at the highest levels of Corporate Media should come with a FA ‘pay up big time’ for that FO.
They should all be given the ‘this is a paid advertisement’ disclosure at the start of their broadcasts like the rest of the infomercial propaganda..
The Enemedia was lying and covering up for Demonicrats long before that!!
If you play the game, ‘Spot The Liberal Bias’, it only takes a few seconds to notice it.
And so are the local TV broadcast that you get from an antenna.
One freeper put it best, “Trump should be taken seriously but not literally”.
Trolling trolling trolling...Will drive them all nuts...
Same with Hunter's laptop.
Responsibility yes…enough to revoke license? No. This is the Government infringing on the first amendment. It’s no different than Joey and social media. That was a direct attack on the first amendment
Absolutely it does!! The Government has been lying to us for DECADES over public airwaves.
. True, but they provide content to local stations.
WABC in NYC would raise holy freak'n hell with ABC if their license was challenged
What does that even mean??
The central government should no more control the content of ABC or NBC than it should the content of Free Republic.
It used to be that most Republicans AND most Democrats believed in the importance of free political speech. It was the one issue on which there was at least general agreement. But the Dems abandoned much of that about a decade and a half ago, and now it seems most Republicans want to get rid of the rest of it l. We've fallen so far from our founding principles that I don't think we can find our way back at this point.
What does that mean? That Trump isn't serious about this, but is just saying it for "fun"?
Amen.
He’s serious on one point...but he knows they’re not going to revoke their licenses.
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