The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart reacted on Comedy Central on Monday to President Trump’s Friday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner address by criticizing the media for inviting “your opponent” to an event supposedly meant to celebrate the First Amendment. Later, he welcomed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to the show and lamented that “this cannot be real” and “that guy runs us.”At one point during his monologue, the 1997 WHCD comedian suggested it was time to shut the dinner down for good, “Look, beyond the fact that Trump was terrible, the dinner should not have happened at all. In fact, shouldn't ever happen. Memorializing the collegial and cozy relationship between the press and those they cover is, at best, a very bad look in normal times. I don't need to see the cops and robbers getting along at a banquet honoring our penal code.” Jon Stewart criticizes the White House Correspondents Dinner for inviting Trump "You can celebrate the First Amendment without asking your opponent in that fight what he thinks. You already know what he thinks." (1/2) pic.twitter.com/OAoXtBkVlA— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 28, 2026 However, for Stewart, inviting Trump was a whole order of magnitude worse, “You can celebrate the First Amendment without asking your opponent in that fight what he thinks. You already know what he thinks.”Stewart then played a montage of clips of Trump attacking the press by calling them “fake news” and other familiar Trump lines, but nothing to suggest that the First Amendment was actually in any danger.Nevertheless, Stewart later asked Collins, “There are times when I watch him and I think to myself, this cannot be real. Like, this can't be America. America. You have heard of us. We’re great. Yes. We are—we’re number one. We’re the best. That guy runs us? What? In the room that night, did it feel surreal? Did he—was he bombing as hard as it appeared on the TV?”   Collins began by replying, “You know, I have covered Trump for ten years, so I have listened to pretty much all of his speeches for ten years, with very little exception, and so I actually think it is helpful for other people to be able to listen to them in their entirety, which people really don't that much these days. In the room, I think I was not surprised when he insulted me. That happens pretty regularly inside the Oval Office. This is just a bigger venue where it was happening.”She then gave Stewart the answer he wanted, “What was most surprising to me was the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress. It was so quiet in the room during the president's remarks.”Most conservatives would not complain if Stewart got his wish and the WHCD ceased to be a made-for-TV spectacle where journalists tell other journalists how awesome they are, but what Collins and so many of her colleagues fail to appreciate is that Trump’s routine turned the tables on the dinner after years of gratuitously nasty jokes about conservatives. Trump may have said Collins looks like Dylan Mulvaney, but Wanda Sykes wished that Rush Limbaugh would die.Here is a transcript for the July 27 show:Comedy Central The Daily Show7/27/202611:19 PM ETJON STEWART: Look, beyond the fact that Trump was terrible, the dinner should not have happened at all. In fact, shouldn't ever happen. Memorializing the collegial and cozy relationship between the press and those they cover is, at best, a very bad look in normal times. I don't need to see the cops and robbers getting along at a banquet honoring our penal code. You can celebrate the First Amendment without asking your opponent in that fight what he thinks. You already know what he thinks.…11:28 PM ETSTEWART: There are times when I watch him and I think to myself, this cannot be real. Like, this can't be America. America. You have heard of us. We’re great.KAITLAN COLLINS: Been here. 34 years.STEWART: Yes. We are—we’re number one. We’re the best. That guy runs us? What? In the room that night, did it feel surreal? Did he—was he bombing as hard as it appeared on the TV?COLLINS: You know, I have covered Trump for ten years, so I have listened to pretty much all of his speeches for ten years, with very little exception, and so I actually think it is helpful for other people to be able to listen to them in their entirety, which people really don't that much these days. In the room, I think I was not surprised when he insulted me. That happens pretty regularly inside the Oval Office.STEWART: Yes.COLLINS: This is just a bigger venue where it was happening. What was most surprising to me was the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress. It was so quiet in the room during the president's remarks.

President Trump finally served up his long-planned speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and they hated it so much the reporters started kvetching about how they need to "rethink" this event, since Trump was not "advancing" the First Amendment with his mockery of the press.NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joined me to discuss how the elitist media  demonstrate the old maxim that they can dish it out, but they can't take it. They can call him Hitler, but you can't compare them unfavorably to anyone. This is how they understand the First Amendment -- it protects them, and nobody else. Criticizing them and mocking them is somehow contrary to freedom of speech, not an exercise in freedom of speech. Comparing CNN's Kaitlan Collins to trans-woman actor Dylan Mulvaney is grossly wrong, as was cartooning CBS News under "gay dictator" Bari Weiss as comparable to Iran.New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker tweeted on X on Saturday that it is time for the White House Correspondents’ Association to “rethink” its annual dinner with the president, since it did not “advance” the cause of reporting “without fear or favor.” As if that motto isn't ridiculous at this point? Baker hates Trump and loves Obama.The tilt of WHCA journalism awards at this dinner also lean to the left, just like the Pulitzer Prizes. This year's slate was dominated by anti-Trump scoops. So what? It's a White House reporter dinner. But Curtis has pointed out they did not give out one of the WHCA awards for anti-Biden scoops. Last year, after Biden was forced out of the 2024 campaign, they honored Alex Thompson's late reporting on Biden's cognitive decline.Enjoy the podcast below. 

Two major stories dropped tonight and as is often the case with the Elitist Media, they failed to make the broadcast network evening news. In both cases, only CBS carried these items.Watch the brief on the Biden Tapes in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Monday, July 27th, 2026: WATCH: As with the Fauci Diaries, @CBSEveningNews breaks the ice on the Biden Tapes. The brief covers the classified stuff but misses the cognitive decline that made it to the ghostwriter interview.MATT GUTMAN: Now breaking news tonight about Former President Joe Biden. Today… pic.twitter.com/zLGFn2v8MV— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 28, 2026 MATT GUTMAN: Now breaking news tonight about Former President Joe Biden. Today roughly 70 hours of recordings of an interview he did with a ghostwriter in 2017 before he was President were released over Biden's objections. Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang joins me. Weijia, what do these tapes tell us?WEIJIA JIANG: Well Matt, the newly released audio shows that in 2017 when Former President Biden was writing a memoir he told his ghostwriter on several occasions that he had classified documents in his possession. Biden can be heard saying "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs," in reference to volumes of notes Biden kept in his home. He also said “some of this may be classified so be careful.” Biden, who fought for years to keep these recordings private, would later publicly criticize President Trump for his handling of classified documents. We asked a spokesman for Biden for a comment about the new tapes, but he said they don’t have one. Matt.GUTMAN: Weijia, thank you.It bears repeating that it was a brief. Weijia Jiang emphasized the classified documents portion of the story on the Biden Tapes, but not the cognitive decline aspects, which also resonated during the ghostwriter interview: When trying to recall a past meeting to Zwonitzer, Biden lost track of what he was talking about, said "it's confusing me," and needed his assistant to get him back on track. pic.twitter.com/DWFyo2sbAr— House Judiciary GOP

Screenshot via Fox News/Snapstream On Saturday afternoon, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) posted a bombshell series of revelations from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s personal diary ahead of Wednesday’s blockbuster Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, which showed he not only believed the origins of COVID-19 likely emanated from the Communist Chinese lab in Wuhan, but reveled in the spotlight with liberal, elite media and expressed skepticism toward policies he demanded be enacted to shutter the country. Between Saturday night and Monday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC made the decision to ignore the infuriating revelations on their flagship morning, evening, and Sunday political talk shows, hoping to further preserve the saintly image they helped Fauci concoct. On Monday morning, all three had time for plenty of fluff, including full reports about LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, which happened back on Friday morning.The diary entries and the upcoming hearing fetched multiple mentions on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, Newsmax2, and NewsNation.A Media Research Center search of SnapStream closed captioning found the first mention on Sunday’s Fox & Friends: Weekend.“Well, Dr. Anthony Fauci will be back in front of lawmakers this week when he testifies before Senator Rand Paul’s committee again on the origins of COVID-19...Fauci denies all wrongdoing, including claims he directed NIH employees to destroy federal records,” co-host Griff Jenkins began ahead of an interview with COVID whistleblower Jamie Metzl.  ABC, CBS, and NBC have completely ignored the bombshell revelations from @SenRandPaul about Dr. Anthony Fauci's diary entries about Everything from the lab leak to fawning over his newfound fame in 2020.Here was the first mention on TV -- Sunday's 'Fox & Friends: Weekend' pic.twitter.com/WIKa5XqxmF— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 27, 2026  Since then (as of this post), Fox News has had it multiple times, starting on Monday’s Fox & Friends, America's Newsroom, Outnumbered, and America Reports.Our friends at Newsmax and Newsmax2 also had multiple segments, beginning with Sunday morning’s Sunday Report:  Our friends at Newsmax and Newsmax2 also had multiple segments, beginning with Sunday morning's 'Sunday Report'By Monday afternoon, it was on 'National Report,' 'First Edition,' and 'John Bachman Now.' pic.twitter.com/lbeab7lscj— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 27, 2026  By Monday afternoon, it appeared on other shows such as National Report, First Edition, and John Bachman Now.NewsNation also covered the diary dumps, but dedicated only two news briefs to the issue thus far, both from Sunday.Here was one of them, which aired in the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour:  NewsNation has also been on the case, but has dedicated only two news briefs to the issue thus far, both from Sunday.Here was one of them, which aired in the 2pm Eastern hour. pic.twitter.com/d9YjVATfcy— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 27, 2026  Finally, there was this doozy from Monday's Squawk Box on CNBC with co-host Joe Kernen repeatedly pressing former Trump FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb about his friend Fauci:  Finally, there was this doozy from Monday's 'Squawk Box' on CNBC with co-host Joe Kernen repeatedly pressing former Trump FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb about his friend Fauci. pic.twitter.com/kE94uOAzLY— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 27, 2026  Most notably for NewsBusters, he admitted to dining with CNN’s Jake Tapper, and was close with other CNN hosts:  "Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts" pic.twitter.com/WFPjHwlsyK— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 27, 2026 Fauci had been lying to press and claiming he hadn't talked to Biden team, but after Biden told the truth Tony confirmed it to CNN "in order not to have a contradiction." pic.twitter.com/nut9CcbcvY— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 27, 2026  Another CNN host was Dana Bash, who now hosts Inside Politics and co-hosts State of the Union. She allegedly told Fauci that Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) “trips over his own asshole”:  Which media personalities fare the worse in Fauci's diary? Some standouts. We can start w/ professional CNN journalist @DanaBashCNN emailing Fauci quotes about how "Jim Jordan trips over his own asshole trying to debate Anthony Fauci." pic.twitter.com/wz9GkoFxo3— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 26, 2026  Fauci also denounced The Blaze’s Steve Deace and Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore, but was an ally to now-View co-host and faux conservative, Alyssa Farah Griffin:  Congrats @SteveDeaceShow - you made the diary. pic.twitter.com/RwqrRKIUN3— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 27, 2026 Fauci told the White House they "need to shut up @StephenMoore."Sorry Tony there was no shutting up Steve or @Comm4Prosperity! pic.twitter.com/F6s6cQpkkF— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 27, 2026 Alyssa Farah to Fauci: "I am so sorry that fool Scott Atlas keeps attacking you. I’m even more sorry I’m not in a better position of influence to see him out the door. I’m trying to make people see he’s a disaster." pic.twitter.com/4WfwKrwdrY— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 27, 2026  Here was how the New York Post broke it down on Sunday:Dr. Anthony Fauci became increasingly fixated on his newfound fame as pandemic deaths soared, reveal the former White House COVID adviser’s newly released diary entries.As early as April 2020, when more than 60,000 people had already died of COVID in the United States, the man in charge of America’s response to the pandemic was obsessing about his recent stardom, according to journals released by Kentucky Republican Sen. and long-term Fauci critic Rand Paul.“Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me,” Fauci wrote in an entry dated April 7, 2020, amid intensifying media coverage around the White House Coronavirus Task Force.On May 21, 2020, the top doc wrote that his “national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,” adding it was “not hyperbole” to describe his celebrity in terms of global recognition, according to the diary.On COVID's origins, Paul reported on January 26, 2020 that Fauci believed “the [Wuhan wet] market was not the source,” of COVID, but “the amplifier.” A meeting six days later with 11 other scientists showed Fauci wasn’t alone, as per his notes, 10 of the 12 believed it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.He also lied about asymptomatic spread, insisting to then-White House official Larry Kudlow on February 12, 2020 this wasn’t possible, even though nine days prior, he had heard it was the case from the head of China’s equivalent of the CDC.----------------------------------------------------------------- To see the relevant transcripts from July 26 and 27, click here (for Fox & Friends: Weekend), here (for NewsNation), here (for Fox & Friends), and here (CNBC).

CNN This Morning on SnapStream The influx of far-left radicals into the Democratic Party has quickly poisoned it from the inside out. Nowadays, if you don’t support transing the kids or abortion up to the moment of birth, you’re a bigot and a MAGA cultist. On Monday’s CNN This Morning, Erica Hill and her guest panelists refused to denounce the new, ultra-radical Democrats dragging the party even farther to the left. However, they seemed to be politely sounding the alarm that American moderates could be turned off.To the delight of many Republicans, Democrats are engaged in a very public civil war. Moderates, who support liberal economic policies or aren’t fond of President Donald Trump, are being pulled underwater by radicals, who shriek about gay oppression while defending sharia law. On one side are well-established Democrats like former politician Rahm Emanuel, and on the other are ‘anti-system’ leftists like Bernie Sanders or Zohran Mamdani.   Hill began the segment covering Sanders and Emanuel smacking each other in the press, each accusing the other of dragging the Democrats the wrong way. Sanders promoted his slew of far-left socialist candidates, saying that “People are sick and tired of the Rahm Emanuels and the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment.”Axios reporter Marc Caputo mentioned that Republicans would see DSA-supported candidates “as a possible advantage because they think, 'well, we've always accused Democrats of being communists. Now they're actually picking communists’ . . . I'm not sure how fully accurate it is, but that's going to be the battle line that the Republicans are going to be drawing with the Democrats.”Notably, Caputo refused to clarify if the DSA candidates were actually communists.USA Today’s Francesca Chambers echoed Caputo’s thoughts without taking a stand herself:But listen, the administration, as Marc was saying, is sitting back and saying that this is going to be their midterm message at this point. Right? You've seen the President, you've seen House Speaker Mike Johnson, a number of other Republicans saying that 'they're Marxists, they're communists, you know, they're socialists that they're going to, you know, you're going to be living in squalor’ . . . I mean, that is exactly what the midterm message is right now coming from Republicans. Sara Fischer, Axios correspondent and CNN media analyst, said she wants the Democrats to have it both ways: The Democrats got to figure out a way to get back to that narrative of, 'no, no, no, we're the big tent party, right? We can bring on a Mamdani and that works for New York City, but it's not going to work in a place like Virginia, which is a purple state.' But Democrats clearly can’t have it both ways. Eventually, every place they control will fall into the radicals’ hands. Virginia Democrats aren't governing in "purple."As the conversation progressed, most of them seemed to agree that their party’s abrupt leftward lurch might be a turn-off to moderate Americans. They even noted that the far-left was pushing things even outside the tolerances for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who poses as a moderate:HILL: I mean, how much of a concern for Democrats, right, to your point about big tent, is that this is going so far to the left that they're actually looking at Democrats, moderate Democrats as more of an enemy than Republicans?(…)LAURA DAVISON: But you know, there's a prime example in AOC who was sort of the -- at the vanguard of this whole Progressive movement of, you know, unseating a long standing incumbent. She is now facing questions of 'is she Progressive enough? Is she doing enough for the party?'(…)CAPUTO: But the future of the party might be AOC. I mean, I know you don't want to talk about 2028, but the idea that, well, the idea that the Democratic socialists now think she's not socialist-y enough, sort of puts her in the middle to a degree, and that's not a bad spot for AOC to be as a 2028 cycle dawns after 2026.So, as CNN waffles back and forth over the DSA, the only thing they’re willing to stand for, at least for now, is sucking up to a far-left Congresswoman just because she might be the 2028 nominee.The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read: CNN This Morning7/27/266:54:58(…)ERICA HILL: Also want to talk to you about what we are seeing in terms of Democrats. Senator Bernie Sanders standing by his coalition of candidates, even as some Democrats worry that the so-called 'Bernie bros' could tank the midterms. Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel making that argument in a Wall Street Journal op-ed over the weekend, blaming the Bernie bros. Adding - for the division - adding, "If the Bernie bros were serious about growing jobs and wages, they would support candidates touting substantive ways to help families." Senator Sanders firing back:[Cut to video]SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): You have an establishment like Rahm Emanuel, who are dependent on billionaire campaign contributors and want to maintain the status quo. And then you have a progressive movement, which, by the way, what is getting these guys nervous is we are winning all over this country. It's not only Mamdani in New York City. It is in New Jersey, it's in Ohio, it's in Colorado. People are sick and tired of the Rahm Emanuel's and the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment. They are asking simple questions.[Cut back to live]HILL: How do you see this playing out?MARC CAPUTO: I see it as a sort of a - the Democrats catching up to where Republicans were in 2010. I mean, it's been written about and said about a little is that this is sort of the Democratic Party's Tea Party movement. And I mean, obviously their version of it, this, to a degree, is perceived in the Trump White House as a possible advantage because they think, 'well, we've always accused Democrats of being communists. Now they're actually picking communists. Chevalier is the example in New York.'I'm not sure how fully accurate it is, but that's going to be the battle line that the Republicans are going to be drawing with the Democrats.SARA FISCHER: I just want to remind people, though, in November, what we were talking about was this becoming the big tent party, right? Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey, Abigail Spanfeller [Spanberger] in Virginia. This was not just about bringing in Democrats that were super-far-left. These are women with military track records. And so I think that the Democrats got to figure out a way to get back to that narrative of, 'no, no, no, we're the big tent party, right? We can bring on a Mamdani and that works for New York City, but it's not going to work in a place like Virginia, which is a purple state.'HILL: Right. And that that's okay. I thought it was fascinating, too, there was some reporting in the New York Times talking about the rise of Democratic socialists, specifically in the state of New York, right, and their influence. And in talking to the chair of the Democratic Party in the state, right, he, Jay Jacobs, who raised the concern, saying, 'look, I like some of what they're doing.' But the issue here and I'm quoting him, he said, "Too often they look at moderate Democrats as the greater enemy than Republicans. They don't appeal to people in the middle. Most Americans are moderate." I mean, how much of a concern for Democrats, right, to your point about big tent, is that this is going so far to the left that they're actually looking at Democrats, moderate Democrats as more of an enemy than Republicans?LAURA DAVISON: That's a huge problem. I mean, if you're done with the midterms and just want to focus on 2028, just watch this debate. This is what is going to be, sort of, the central theme, you know, after we get through these November elections. But you know, there's a prime example in AOC who was sort of the - at the vanguard of this whole progressive movement of, you know, unseating a long standing incumbent. She is now facing questions of 'is she Progressive enough? Is she doing enough for the party?'You know, this is, you know, a cyclical thing we see in politics all the time. But if you have someone like AOC getting questions, if her bona fides are true, if she's really committed to the DSA mission, that's a problem for the party.HILL: And meanwhile, you have the, you know, administration and likely most Republicans across the country just sitting back and popping popcorn.FRANCESCA CHAMBERS: I was laughing. You said 'if you're done with '26 and just to talk about 2028,' because you guys--HILL: I know you wanted to talk to--CHAMBERS: --I knew you wanted me to talk about 2028 this morning--HILL: --that's going to be your next question--CHAMBERS: I know, I know--HILL: --don't worry.CHAMBERS: --and next time, or next time. But listen, the administration, as Marc was saying, is sitting back and saying that this is going to be their midterm message at this point. Right? You've seen the President, you've seen House Speaker Mike Johnson, a number of other Republicans saying that 'they're Marxists, they're communists, you know, they're socialists that they're going to, you know, you're going to be living in squalor.' I think is what the President said, 'two years from now, they're saying it's free, but it won't be free.' I mean, that is exactly what the midterm message is right now coming from Republicans. As far as Democrats go, though, I mean, there is this intraparty debate about the future of the Democratic Party right now and what they want it to look like. And even if Hakeem Jeffries does take over of the House, I mean, he's going to have a similar problem to Mike Johnson on his hands, where he could only have a margin of a couple. And he's going to have to, you know, barter with them to get things done. If he's the leader, because they won't even commit to making him the leader.CAPUTO: But the future of the party might be AOC. I mean, I know you don't want to talk about 2028, but the idea that--HILL: Francesca very much wants to talk about 2028 actually--CAPUTO: Right, well, the idea that the Democratic socialists now think she's not socialist-y enough, sort of, puts her in the middle to a degree, and that's not a bad spot for AOC to be as a 2028 cycle dawns after 2026.