On Saturday's edition of  MSNBC’s The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart reacted to President Trump’s comment about Japan and Pearl Harbor by demanding discussion of the 25th Amendment -- i.e., the removal of Trump from office.. Asked by a Japanese reporter why allies like Japan weren’t informed in advance of U.S. action against Iran, Trump said in the presence of Japan’s prime minister: “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Capehart’s response was striking: I sometimes wonder, why are we not having a 25th Amendment conversation about this president? Because a comment like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we would have been in rolling coverage about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he should be removed from office for talking to an ally like that, and making that comment in response to a question from a Japanese journalist. MS NOW’s Capehart Suggests Yanking Trump Under 25th Amendment Over Pearl Harbor Comment pic.twitter.com/00356QjOjp — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 21, 2026 Notably, Capehart didn't suggest that Biden making such a remark would have been 25th Amendment grounds -- only that Republicans would be making the argument. Of course he didn't! Capehart was part of the liberal media cover-up of Biden's decline. Readers will be familiar with these examples: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough famously declared Biden the “best Biden ever,” while columnist Eugene Robinson described him as “sharp as a tack.”  Commentators dismissed certain viral clips of Biden as “cheap fakes,” and many criticized Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report—which described Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory—as out of bounds.  Whoopi Goldberg (The View) explicitly dismissed the importance of cognitive concerns, stating her unwavering support regardless of the president's physical or mental condition.  Evan Osnos of the New Yorker wrote in a March 2024 article that Biden’s mind seemed "unchanged" and that he "never bungled a name or a date" during an interview. And let's not forget that perhaps the single most egregious bit of covering for Biden's decline came at the hands of . . . Jonathan Capehart! In the course of interviewing Biden in October 2024, Biden nodded off, and Capehart had to jar him awake. And yet, in his then-MSNBC show, Capehart edited out that moment—undoubtedly the interview's most newsworthy event. Fortunately, the RNC captured it. For Capehart, a leader of the Biden cover-up, to now demand a 25th Amendment investigation of Trump, is hypocrisy par excellence. Trump's Pearl Harbor line might have seemed undiplomatic, but it pales in comparison to the countless instances of Biden revealing that he was no longer up to the job -- and the liberal media doing its best to cover for him. Capehart's guest Alan Eyre agreed with Capehart, that Trump lacks competence, and dragged Obama into the mix: "You're right. There's a massive double standard in terms of covering this president versus any other president. President Obama got grief for wearing a suit of a non-traditional....A tan suit. Right. So, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, again, I'm aghast at the lack of collective outrage at any number of things the president says, or more importantly, what he does." On X, national talk-radio host Erick Erickson reminded people that Barack Obama made a somewhat similar joke at a White House event with British prime minister David Cameron about the British setting the White House in fire in 1814 during the War of 1812. "They really lit up the place," Obama joked to laughter. Cameron responded with a joke in response. You could argue these were prepared remarks instead of off-the-cuff patter, but this underlines the elitist media's never-ending double standard.   Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend 3/21/26 7:24 am EDT JONATHAN CAPEHART: I want to play for everyone something that the president of the United States said during a meeting with the Japanese prime minister on Thursday.  And he was asked why he didn't tell America's allies about what was about to happen in Iran. Please watch this and turn the sound up. Why didn't you tell your allies in Europe?  JAPANESE REPORTER: up. Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and in Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran. So we are very confused about, we, Japanese citizens. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.  Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right? No, I think you believe in surprise I think much more so than us. CAPEHART: I looked at the Japanese prime minister's face during that. And she tried very hard, very, very hard, not to react.  But as an American citizen, but also as a journalist who has covered now four presidents, both parties, and knowing how presidents of the United States are supposed to talk and to act on the world stage, particularly with our allies, that was, well, one, beyond disgusting.  But also just, I sometimes wonder, why are we not having a 25th Amendment conversation about this president?  Because a comment like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we would have been in rolling coverage about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he should be removed from office for talking to an ally like that, and making that comment in response to a question from a Japanese journalist -- Alan.  ALAN EYRE: Well, I've worked for every U.S. president since Reagan in one form or another. And you are quite right. This president is qualitatively different than every other.  And I don't say that as a member of any political party. It's not a Republican or a Democrat thing. It's a competence and expertise, and prioritizing the interests of the United States as your top priority.  This president's not doing that. His metrics for making decisions I don't think is necessarily what's in the long-term best interest of the United States.  And you're right. There's a massive double standard in terms of covering this president versus any other president.  President Obama got grief for wearing a suit of a non-traditional -- EUGENE DANIELS: A tan suit.  EYRE: A tan suit. Right. So, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, again, I'm aghast at the lack of collective outrage at any number of things the president says, or more importantly, what he does. 

This week, HBO Max's The Pitt premiered another illegal immigration episode and it was an over-the-top anti-ICE tirade. On Thursday's episode, "5:00 p,m.," Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents bring in a patient, Pranita (Laëtitia Hollard), who they claim tore her rotator cuff while fleeing arrest. Side glances from the doctors imply that they think the agents actually injured the illegal.  As the hour in the emergency room progresses, medical staff complain that the agents' presence is causing illegals in the jam-packed waiting area to leave. Illegals leaving an already overwhelmed emergency room is not the pro-open borders message the writers think it is. Inside the hospital, immigrant nurses legally in the U.S. on temporary work status start going home for the day out of fear for their safety. Why their bosses do not assure them that they are under no threat is a mystery. The Pitt is a universe designed around media and Democratic party propaganda. This show has averaged 10 million viewers, a real hit in streaming TV. It's won the latest Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Outstanding Drama Series. "Can't we just tell the agents to f*ck off?" charge nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) asks Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle), the senior physician. Growing frustrated, Dr. “Robby” angrily orders an ICE agent to leave. The Pitt's latest episode is an anti-ICE tirade. pic.twitter.com/Bh8VwQroSv — HollywoodClips (@awardshowclips) March 20, 2026 Ordered out, the ICE agent goes back to Pranita's room to take her away. After being informed that she still needs a sling, the agent aggressively grabs Pranita's injured arm.  A nurse tries to intervene and is arrested by ICE, causing a dramatic scene in the ER. ICE Agents portrayed as over-the-top left-wing caricatures in The Pitt. pic.twitter.com/nafeX98VBs — HollywoodClips (@awardshowclips) March 20, 2026 The left-wing narrative of ICE agents as out-of-control monsters is now complete. The only thing missing from the villainous caricature is actual horns and devil costumes. Of course, Pranita is portrayed as a sweet innocent woman cruelly caught while just trying to work. There is no concern about her criminal crossing and the harm that comes to American citizens by her working either under the table or through identity theft. This episode follows an earlier storyline this season in which a delinquent and drunk Haitian child was in dire straits because his illegal immigrant parents were deported.  The Pitt has yet to portray any stories of the countless victims of illegal immigrant crimes who are brought into emergency rooms in the United States every day. Hospital dramas never show the people harmed by open borders. The only "victims" on these shows are the lawbreakers. HBO Max supposedly told The Pitt producer John Wells to make sure this season's ICE storyline was balanced. If that was the goal, The Pitt failed miserably.

On Saturday's edition of  MSNBC’s The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart reacted to President Trump’s comment about Japan and Pearl Harbor by demanding discussion of the 25th Amendment -- i.e., the removal of Trump from office.. Asked by a Japanese reporter why allies like Japan weren’t informed in advance of U.S. action against Iran, Trump said in the presence of Japan’s prime minister: “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Capehart’s response was striking: I sometimes wonder, why are we not having a 25th Amendment conversation about this president? Because a comment like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we would have been in rolling coverage about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he should be removed from office for talking to an ally like that, and making that comment in response to a question from a Japanese journalist. MS NOW’s Capehart Suggests Yanking Trump Under 25th Amendment Over Pearl Harbor Comment pic.twitter.com/00356QjOjp — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 21, 2026 Notably, Capehart didn't suggest that Biden making such a remark would have been 25th Amendment grounds -- only that Republicans would be making the argument. Of course he didn't! Capehart was part of the liberal media cover-up of Biden's decline. Readers will be familiar with these examples: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough famously declared Biden the “best Biden ever,” while columnist Eugene Robinson described him as “sharp as a tack.”  Commentators dismissed certain viral clips of Biden as “cheap fakes,” and many criticized Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report—which described Biden as an elderly man with a poor memory—as out of bounds.  Whoopi Goldberg (The View) explicitly dismissed the importance of cognitive concerns, stating her unwavering support regardless of the president's physical or mental condition.  Evan Osnos of the New Yorker wrote in a March 2024 article that Biden’s mind seemed "unchanged" and that he "never bungled a name or a date" during an interview. And let's not forget that perhaps the single most egregious bit of covering for Biden's decline came at the hands of . . . Jonathan Capehart! In the course of interviewing Biden in October 2024, Biden nodded off, and Capehart had to jar him awake. And yet, in his then-MSNBC show, Capehart edited out that moment—undoubtedly the interview's most newsworthy event. Fortunately, the RNC captured it. For Capehart, a leader of the Biden cover-up, to now demand a 25th Amendment investigation of Trump, is hypocrisy par excellence. Trump's Pearl Harbor line might have seemed undiplomatic, but it pales in comparison to the countless instances of Biden revealing that he was no longer up to the job -- and the liberal media doing its best to cover for him. Capehart's guest Alan Eyre agreed with Capehart, that Trump lacks competence, and dragged Obama into the mix: "You're right. There's a massive double standard in terms of covering this president versus any other president. President Obama got grief for wearing a suit of a non-traditional....A tan suit. Right. So, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, again, I'm aghast at the lack of collective outrage at any number of things the president says, or more importantly, what he does." On X, national talk-radio host Erick Erickson reminded people that Barack Obama made a somewhat similar joke at a White House event with British prime minister David Cameron about the British setting the White House in fire in 1814 during the War of 1812. "They really lit up the place," Obama joked to laughter. Cameron responded with a joke in response. You could argue these were prepared remarks instead of off-the-cuff patter, but this underlines the elitist media's never-ending double standard.   Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend 3/21/26 7:24 am EDT JONATHAN CAPEHART: I want to play for everyone something that the president of the United States said during a meeting with the Japanese prime minister on Thursday.  And he was asked why he didn't tell America's allies about what was about to happen in Iran. Please watch this and turn the sound up. Why didn't you tell your allies in Europe?  JAPANESE REPORTER: up. Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and in Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran. So we are very confused about, we, Japanese citizens. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.  Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right? No, I think you believe in surprise I think much more so than us. CAPEHART: I looked at the Japanese prime minister's face during that. And she tried very hard, very, very hard, not to react.  But as an American citizen, but also as a journalist who has covered now four presidents, both parties, and knowing how presidents of the United States are supposed to talk and to act on the world stage, particularly with our allies, that was, well, one, beyond disgusting.  But also just, I sometimes wonder, why are we not having a 25th Amendment conversation about this president?  Because a comment like that, if it had come out of the mouth of President Biden, we would have been in rolling coverage about how Republicans on the Hill thinks that he should be removed from office for talking to an ally like that, and making that comment in response to a question from a Japanese journalist -- Alan.  ALAN EYRE: Well, I've worked for every U.S. president since Reagan in one form or another. And you are quite right. This president is qualitatively different than every other.  And I don't say that as a member of any political party. It's not a Republican or a Democrat thing. It's a competence and expertise, and prioritizing the interests of the United States as your top priority.  This president's not doing that. His metrics for making decisions I don't think is necessarily what's in the long-term best interest of the United States.  And you're right. There's a massive double standard in terms of covering this president versus any other president.  President Obama got grief for wearing a suit of a non-traditional -- EUGENE DANIELS: A tan suit.  EYRE: A tan suit. Right. So, yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, again, I'm aghast at the lack of collective outrage at any number of things the president says, or more importantly, what he does. 

National 'Public' Radio hates President Trump with great passion. So naturally, they pounced on Brian Stelter's favorite Swedish think tank proclaiming Trump's going to end democracy any day now. Their headline for the March 19 All Things Considered was this: Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds NPR also posted that headline at the top of their homepage on Friday, since they knew their leftist audience would deeply love this apparently timeless shoveling of paranoia.   AILSA CHANG, HOST: With the midterms less than seven months away, what is the state of American democracy? Well, major reports out this month say that President Trump has done serious damage at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. But as NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, scholars say that Trump has yet to permanently change how America is governed. FRANK LANGFITT: Every year, V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, measures democracy in countries around the globe. Its new report says American democracy is being dismantled at unprecedented speed. Staffan Lindberg is the institute's founding director. STAFFAN LINDBERG: It's a very rapid and aggressive concentration on power in the presidency, encroaching and taking powers from the legislature, along with attacks on media freedom and freedom of speech. LANGFITT: More than 4,000 scholars contributed data to the report, the largest of its kind in the world. The report found that America's democracy ranking plunged last year, tumbling from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries. The United States landed between Slovakia and Greece. Lindberg says Trump is eroding democracy quickly. None of NPR's scholars in this story are identified properly as leftists. Leftist experts are just described as "scholars" and "experts." Lindberg is appalled that a Republican-controlled Congress is not relentlessly resisting Trump. But a Democrat-controlled Congress not fighting President Biden isn't dangerous for democracy. Because when Democrats are in charge, they think that's when democracy is at its best. NPR didn't elaborate that Lindberg theorized that defunding NPR and PBS was anti-democratic. That's a silly argument, since nobody's less democratic in their discourse than NPR and PBS. One side gets almost all the love. NPR's never fair and balanced on Trump, but the president and a spokeswoman received about 25 seconds of pushback, in a 289-second story pushing an anti-Trump theme. They said these leftists are biased, which is true. (They were granted about 8.6 percent of the story.)  LINDBERG: Developments in the United States are moving towards dictatorship - what the founders wanted to avoid. And it's going very fast. And if one wants to avoid that, pro-democratic action is needed urgently. LANGFITT: White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales dismissed V-Dem's analysis as, quote, "a ridiculous claim made by an irrelevant, blatantly biased organization." President Trump has heard these claims before and rejected them, as he did speaking with reporters last August. DONALD TRUMP: "He's a dictator. He's a dictator." A lot of people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. LANGFITT: But another report surveying more than 500 U.S. scholars finds that the U.S. now falls nearly midway between liberal democracy and dictatorship. The survey is called Bright Line Watch. Dartmouth's John Carey is one of its codirectors. He says the U.S.'s rating might have slid even further towards dictatorship in recent months if not for the courts pushing back. Langfitt added in Freedom House for a plethora of anti-Trump "experts. He also claimed: "Trump has already claimed without evidence that Democrats will cheat in the midterms." That's funny. We'd say NPR has claimed without evidence that democracy is vanishing rapidly.  Earlier: CNN's Brian Stelter touts Swedes who hate Trump  

If you have been watching the media coverage of the war with Iran, you can not help but be aware of the leftist agenda being driven home day after day, report after report. You hear that there was no imminent threat from Iran, Trump has no exit strategy, etc. And of course the one they really love to push is Israel as an evil player, whether it's how they somehow made the U.S. start the war, or as  a recent CNN report implied, how they are bombing Lebanon for no reason, and are responsible for the deaths of children. On Thursday's Erin Burnett OutFront, the CNN host began her segment by talking over a video of an RT reporter in Lebanon, who just managed to avoid an Israeli air attack, while giving his report. She would then play it with sound, as she made her feelings known.  BURNETT: Welcome back to a special edition of Out Front War with Iran. The breaking news, dramatic new footage of a close call on the front lines. RT Correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman, Ali Rita, narrowly escaped death today. I mean, that is just frightening. He was reporting on Israeli missile strikes in southern Lebanon. Watch this.  The 10 second video showed Sweeney diving for cover as an explosion hit right behind him. Burnett came back on camera, shaking her head and closing her eyes. BURNETT: And just the speed, right? The no warning that you get.  Burnett failed to mention that Israel has said that it issued explicit warnings the day before, citing Hezbollah’s use of the area for moving fighters and weapons. She then threw it to a report from inside Lebanon by Correspondent Isobel Yeung, who first showed us the funeral of what she says were four young siblings and a cousin killed in Israeli airstrikes.  YEUNG: This mother is carrying the body of her six-year-old daughter Yasmina. Israeli bombs pierce her grief. She's also burying her three other daughters -- nine-year-old Malika, Zahra, 12 and Zainab,13, along with their cousin, 11-year-old Sadiq. Just absolutely heartbreaking scenes as body after body after body, tiny little bodies. These ones having to be carried on the bed because there's just only parts and remnants and pieces of them left. These are just five of over 110 children killed this month. The IDF say they're targeting Hezbollah infrastructure and that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields. CNN obtained permission from Hezbollah to film in Southern Lebanon.  Oh, by the way, the terrorists gave CNN permission to film the report! The same terrorists that the President of Lebanon warned in early March, could turn Lebanon into another Gaza. That was one week after Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel in support of Iran, forcing Israel to take action, and according to the Washington Post, "Shiite Muslims in Lebanon who form Hezbollah’s base of political and popular support are increasingly furious with the Iranian-backed militant group for dragging them into another war."  Apparently CNN's viewers do not need t know any of this. Yeung concluded her report by taking us on a tour of sorts down a street in Lebanon, and it was more of the same.  YEUNG: It is just apocalyptic around here. And to think that I mean, just a couple of weeks ago this was a buzzing lively neighborhood with shops and these were people's houses. And now it's just all been turned to rubble. It must be so eerie staying here. Yeung then speaks with a young girl who says she's scared she or one of her young family members may be killed, and her message to, "People that have power over this war right now" was, "What do you want from us? We can't continue our education or do anything. You've ruined our lives." Then Yeung and Burnett finished up. YEUNG: It's a pain no child should know. A generation who should have their entire lives ahead of them. Now pulled into a war they never chose. And crushed beneath the violence that engulfs them. BURNETT: Incredible suffering. No one would disagree, but by leaving out that it's Hezbollah that is responsible for the suffering, the viewer is led to believe it is all Israel's fault, and that seems to be the goal. This is not the first time CNN has pulled this.