The media hall monitors are fond of berating the Bari Weiss-run CBS Evening News as Trump-friendly or “MAGA-coded.” So far, the network has quite easily managed to beat those allegations. Case in point: the former Tiffany network has decided to wade into the fake controversy surrounding the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams. Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 (click “expand” to view transcript): The allegedly "MAGA-coded" CBS Evening News has joined the ongoing attempt to gaslight America into thinking there is animosity between our respective Olympic hockey teams pic.twitter.com/KfPHwH5LzT — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Now to America's gold medal winning USA hockey team. No, not the ones celebrated at the State of the Union last night. The women's team, which also beat Canada, also in overtime, and yet has come home to just a fraction of the glory. Here is CBS News correspondent Jonah Kaplan. JONAH KAPLAN: Two Olympic gold medal teams. Two very different celebrations. The men's U.S. hockey team received a hero's welcome. [Cheers and applause] Members of the U.S. Women's team, already back on the ice. Practicing for their various professional and college teams. Lee Stecklein and Kelly Panek, decorated women's hockey Olympic players, said their absence was due to logistical challenges.  Do you want your own invite? KELLY PANEK: You want it to be about how great of an experience it was for us. You know, having two gold medals come out of USA Hockey, something we’ve never done before. KAPLAN: Their return from the Olympics was met with fallout from this viral men's hockey team call Sunday with the President. DONALD TRUMP: I must tell you, we’re gonna have to bring the women's team, You do know that. [Laughter] UNIDENTIFIED USA MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYER: ABSOLUTELY. KAPLAN: This afternoon, U.S. men's player Jeremy Swayman. JEREMY SWAYMAN: Yep, we should have reacted differently. We know that. We are so excited for the women's team, we have so much respect for the women's team. KAPLAN: Mutual admiration. And how about from the men's team? Is it just one family? PANEK: Yeah, that's how it felt like over there. It really did feel like that, you know. Both team USAs, that's part of the great thing about being at the Olympics. KAPLAN: And while Olympic gold was nice, the goal is the impact on the next generation.  LEE STECKLEIN: To increase the opportunity for girls to experience that. Would love if that’s in hockey. KAPLAN: One thing we also asked the girls, how about a repeat in 2030 in France? They said, “we are not thinking about that yet because we have to think about the Paralympic Games happening now”, and they want the U.S. to go 3 for 3 gold medals in hockey. Tony? Tony: All right, Jonah, put on a pair of skates, send us pictures. Tony Dokoupil’s playfully telling Jonak Kaplan to put on some skates almost reads like a repudiation of even having to do the report in the first place. But this repudiation is useless after his melodramatic introduction to Jonah Kaplan’s horrid report. All the credit and respect to Kelly Panek and Lee Stecklein of the gold-medal winning women’s hockey team, who refused to take Kaplan’s bait at every turn. Whether it was the asinine question on potential White House invites or on whether they feel that they are “one family” with the men’s team, Panek and Stecklein held firm and refused to feed the dopey discourse currently infecting what should be celebrated as total victory. The whole premise of the report gets shot down with the audio of President Trump’s tongue-in-cheek “you know we’re gonna have to bring the women’s team”. Viewers can clearly hear someone on the men’s team saying “Absolutely.” That should’ve killed this stupid cycle at the root. A joyous story about the return of sporting patriotism has struggled to be told because the media, especially the sports media, is still stuck on litigating microaggressions, and are mad that Trump embraced the winners. Fittingly, it is CBS who chooses to run this slop on the TV side. The media hall monitors who piously decry as “disinformation” anything that deviates from Dem orthodoxy will commit some disinformation of their own as they continue to try to hang the “MAGA-coded” tag on CBS.  

It’s hard to recall because it seems like it happened long ago, but there was a time at the outset of the Second Trump Administration where Elon Musk was at the top of the Elitist Media Evening News each and every day. Elon’s long gone from the administration, but this odd brief onABC World News Tonight makes crystal clear that the Elon hate remains. Watch the brief in its entirety, as aired on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026: Take a look at this weirdly brand-specific @ABCWorldNews brief about a car-ramming incident in California, wherein David Muir makes sure to plug "Tesla" in there in a way you never see with other brands. @elonmusk is gone from the admin but the hate remains. pic.twitter.com/OhpiwXznYK — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2026 DAVID MUIR: There’s an urgent search tonight for a driver who drove into a crowd in Southern California. Authorities say there was a confrontation involving that Tesla driver who they say then returned, ramming into people in the street. Four people were hurt. Of course, there is much more to the story than bla, bla, bla TESLA. Per Fox News: Video captured the chaotic moment a car barreled into a crowd gathered outside a bar over the weekend in San Bernardino County, California, triggering a burst of gunfire and sending bystanders scrambling for safety. The Redlands Police Department said Monday that four people were rushed to the hospital after the suspected attempted vehicular homicide unfolded early Sunday morning. The incident reportedly stemmed from an altercation that escalated among several people outside a popular restaurant and bar, The Underground, shortly before 1:30 a.m.  Authorities said one of the individuals involved got into a 2022 Tesla and drove away before circling back minutes later, "striking four people who were standing in the street in front of the bar." The report goes on to mention that the bar is located in a place where “people go to after they’ve been kicked out of other bars.”  The Fox item mentions the brand of the ramming vehicle as well, but not as a centerpiece of the report, which is what ABC did. In a three-sentence story, the placement of “Tesla” renders it its protagonist. By design. This is contrary to standard practice with your typical ramming story, which seldom mentions the car’s make, if at all. When was the last time you heard the vehicle’s make feature prominently in a car ramming story? You don’t.  Those other brands don’t get mentioned at all. But things are still (D)ifferent when it comes to Tesla. The media continue to hate Elon Musk with the intensity of a thousand suns, and as though he never left the Trump administration at all.  

Despite having been painted a picture by the liberal media that the new CBS News would become something akin to MAGA TV, it has been anything but. Wednesday’s CBS Mornings reacted with negative narratives about President Trump’s “contentious” 2026 State of the Union speech, “clash[ing] with Democrats” and painting a supposedly dour economy as strong. The bias began in the tease with co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King saying Trump gave “a contentious State of the Union Address, claiming victory on the economy, and bashing Democrats.” Filling in at a show she spent seven years co-hosting, Norah O’Donnell voiced skepticism at Trump “claim[ing] the nation’s economy is strong despite polls showing most Americans feel otherwise” and “clash[ing] with Democrats in the room on a range of issues, including the ICE tactics at the root of the partial government shutdown.” Wednesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ was indistinguishable from ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ on the bias and anti-Trump invective. Don’t listen to anyone trying to insist CBS is now MAGA. It’s still biased as hell. Here was Norah O’Donnell opening their #SOTU recap…. “We’re going to… pic.twitter.com/SeTBnpQHhE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 26, 2026 Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes scoffed at Trump’s focus on “affordability and the economy” because he “inflat[ed] the impact” his policies “have had already,” adding the night had both “a couple of truly tense moments and some very moving ones that brought the entire room to its feet.” After alluding to the bipartisan nature of the men’s hockey team bringing the room to its feet (well, except the reporters, but Cordes didn’t mention that), Cordes shifted back to the Trump bashing about his speech containing “plenty of division” and “put[ting] Democrats in a tighter spot on immigration” that resulted in “shouting from a small group of Democrats.” Cordes jabbed Trump for invoking voter ID, but at least she conceded Trump voiced desire for “another round of tax cuts and he touted a new plan to keep electricity prices low when AI companies and tech companies build data centers.” After alluding to the various military honors bestowed (including two Medals of Honor), she moved to the Democrat response from Governor Abigail Spanberger (VA) as having “targeted Trump’s personal behavior in office.” Cordes concluded with allusions to the empty seats from Democrats and the latest hijinks from Congressman Al Green (D-TX), whom she said has a tough reelection primary next week. Chief Washington analyst Robert Costa came next, opining to O’Donnell that his takeaway was “what was not said” with Trump not offering a preview of what he’d do in Iran. King tried to extend this out further to the Epstein files, but Costa didn’t take that bait and instead said he was struck by Trump’s message discipline on not attacking the Supreme Court justices who struck down most of his tariffs. “[Y]ou saw him trying to underscore patriotic themes, highlight Americans with compelling stories of service to the country, while also taking on Democrats, calling them ‘crazy’, saying they’re not addressing the issue of immigration or the economy, and you really see ahead of the midterm elections, this is a President who wants to be appealing to the center of the country, the undecided voter,” he added. The second hour featured two long segments that heavily criticized the President versus genuine concern for Democrats. As the show has been prone to do following major political nights, they brought in political consultants and CBS News contributors, Democrat Joel Payne and Republican Terry Sullivan. Payne predictably called the speech one for Trump’s “base” and so he could be “treated like the leader of a dictatorial country” and thus “not…to bring in new people” or truly be challenged. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump made many claims about the economy, which he said is strong, and touched on foreign policy. The president also clashed with Democrats over mass deportation. CBS News contributors Joel Payne, a Democratic… pic.twitter.com/RHY3kH3BLR — CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) February 25, 2026 Sullivan humorously took a different approach by targeting the left’s counter-programming, but was then challenged by co-host Nate Burleson if Trump playing to his base is a hindrance. Of course, that was not asked of Payne (click “expand”): SULLIVAN: I completely agree because really what middle America cares about are frogs on a stage with Democrat politicians. Like that’s appealing to the middle of America? I mean, look…the point is that, like, both sides play to their base. That’s what they do, and their rival event played to their base. But Trump put a face on his policies. The family that’s getting –paying less in tax, $5,000 less in taxes because of his policies, they were there. The, like, his policies, you know, that he put forth, he was very disciplined last night in telling what he’s done and here’s what it’s done for Americans, and I think putting a face on that was a successful strategy. PAYNE: You will be surprised that Terry and I had a different takeaway from the speech. BURLESON: Terry, let me ask you. Is playing to your base like you’re saying President Trump did last night, the right strategy as we close in on the midterms? SULLIVAN: Look, but I think, like I was saying, I think he played to his base but I think he also played to the middle of America. I mean a working family paying less in taxes matters. Securing our borders matters. I know it was showmanship when the Democrats wouldn’t stand up for his defending - putting Americans over illegal immigrants, you know, but Americans care about that. That’s a winning issue. O’Donnell dutifully assisted Payne by offering up a softball set-up: “Joel, do you think [Trump’s message on lower taxes] resonates if people are paying less in taxes when they are paying more for other issues because of tariffs?” Some uninterrupted back-and-forth later with Sullivan countering Trump “stayed on message” and “talked about the issues that help Republicans,” O’Donnell simply asked Payne another softie: “What’s Democrats’ message?” King had a weak toss of her own disguised as a challenging probe about whether Democrats boycotting or heckling was “helpful.” Burleson and King had one last question for Sullivan, complaining Trump was blaming his circumstances in his second year on the Biden regime (click “expand”): BURLESON: Terry, can I ask you a question? I have some relatives that voted for Donald Trump and they — they’re tired of the blame game. Do you feel like at this point blaming the other side is as effective as it once was. KING: Or blaming the Biden Administration still? SULLIVAN: No, absolutely not. But it works on both sides. Like right now there is far less in policy solutions by both sides and far more, in just, well at least we’re not the other side and that’s what America is voting for in most of these elections. Well, who is the less bad candidate? That’s a terrible spot to be in. The last half-hour commenced with a dual economy and health care discussion with medical contributor Dr. Celine Gounder and business analyst Jill Schlesinger. O’Donnell first went negative and doomcasting with Schlesinger: “[Y]ou heard the President says the economy is soaring, but if you look at our CBS News poll, more than half Americans think the economy is bad. What’s the disconnect?” Schlesinger offered welcome nuance that, yes, “the economy grew at a slower pace last year in 2025 than it did in 2024 and for us, consumers, our lived experience on the ground is not about economic numbers, it’s about how much things cost.” She explained that, yes, inflation was “a surge after COVID” that “pushed prices up,” but thankfully “[t]he rate of increase has come down” but that surge has still had ripple effects “and that is what explains the consumer confidence down, and of course, why people are telling us in these polls they’re not feeling great about the economy.” Burleson tried to frame those happy with the Trump economy as only the rich (click “expand”): BURLESON: I understand that when we talk economy, it’s different for everybody, right? It’s really dependent on what you’re going through in the moment. But let’s just talk about people that might have a stock portfolio, and they’re looking at stock markets saying, whoa, things are good right now. President Trump, he is talking during the State of the Union and says, look at what’s happened in the market. It’s all because of me. So, is there a disconnect there, or do we need to give credit where credit is due? SCHLESINGER: We have always had this problem where the stock market is not the economy, the economy is not the stock market, okay? If you own a stock, you’re among the 60 percent of Americans that’s owned a stock, a mutual fund. Sure, the market was up by more than 16 percent last year, great. But that really means that your retirement account might have gone up a little bit. A lot of people can’t access that money. Again, lived experience on the ground — prices, affordability, health care, child care, elder care, cost of education, cost of rent, all of these things, even the price in the grocery store — these are still the problems that people are confronting. A member of the Biden transition team on COVID, Gounder was all negative in stating her shock that “there was not more of an acknowledgement of pain, the pain that people are feeling” with “[h]ealth care” being “the number one financial concern for Americans now, ahead of rent, ahead of food, utilities, gas[.]” Health care costs are the number one financial concern for Americans, Dr. Celine Gounder says, noting that President Trump did not speak to those concerns much during his Tuesday night State of the Union address. Dr. Gounder shares how some of the Trump administration’s health… pic.twitter.com/1RsYyKt3qe — CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) February 25, 2026 “[S]o, for that not to have been addressed, for that acknowledgement of we feel your pain, the other thing that he did not address is that the biggest driver of increased health care costs are actually hospital care and physicians, doctors like me – and he didn’t really talk about what was being done, or what might be done to curb those costs,” she added. Following Gounder’s dismissal of Trump Rx as just “a website where you can download coupons” that won’t help all that many people, Burleson and King concluded with questions for Schlesinger about Trump Accounts (which she’s a fan of) and replacing the income tax with tariffs (which she said won’t happen) (click “expand”): BURLESON: Yes, I hear you on that. Jill, he also mentioned these Trump accounts. What can you tell us about that? I was trying to unpack it, and then research while I was watching the State of the Union. SCHLESINGER: So, these are education savings accounts and retirement savings accounts. It’s sort of like, think of it like a Roth IRA for your kid. A thousand dollars goes in for every child born, starting last year for the next three years. KING: You have to apply for it. But it sounds like a good thing. SCHLESINGER: It is a great thing. BURLESON: It is a great thing. SCHLESINGER: It really is a great thing. KING: Yes. SCHLESINGER: You can do it during tax season, by the way, but it opens up in July, and parents and employers can add to those accounts, just if everybody has a kid in the last year or going forward the next three years, it is a really good thing to have. It has some special tax treatment. If you’re really trying to save for education yourself, though. Those Section 529 plans, they are the best way to save. (….) O’DONNELL: Trump also claimed that tariffs could replace income tax. SCHLESINGER: No, absolutely not. There’s no way. We’re talking about the government taking in a couple trillion dollars in federal tax revenue. Last year, the administration brought in $300 billion of tariff revenue, and by the way, about 150 of that is going away because of the Supreme Court decision, so there is no chance that tariffs can replace income taxes. Sorry, gang, go pay your taxes. To see the relevant CBS transcript from February 25, click here.

On the final block of Tuesday’s Morning Joe, actress Carrie Coon, best known for her role in The White Lotus, promoted her performance in the Broadway play Bug by use of political parallels and complaints about conspiracies as she proclaimed audiences were yearning for “darkness, for irreverence, for nudity, for blood” in the face of America’s purported “autocracy.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire introduced the play, written by Coon’s husband, as centered “around a poor and lonely waitress” who “meets a secretive war veteran who convinces her that he is the victim of a government experiment.”  Coon said her husband wrote the play in the face of the Oklahoma City bombing and the creation of the internet. “And here we are. I think I don't have to say why that kind of thinking is relevant today,” she added. After a leading question from New York Times writer Molly Jong-Fast, Coon went into a bit of a rant making comparisons of the play to the political side she doesn't like: We are experiencing a moment where, for some reason, part of our population believes that one percent of immigrants are inflicting financial pain on them, or one percent of transgender people are the source of their troubles, when in fact one percent of the population are billionaires who are controlling everything. And yet we have a segment of our population that seems entirely focused on these groups. It seems Coon followed the same liberal media playbook to downplay illegal immigrant crimes and transgender shootings as the rest of the media.    On MS NOW, actress Carrie Coon touts that art and artists are "ris[ing] up" against President Trump and audiences are "hungry for this kind of darkness" and "blood. They want to see it. And we are feeling that in the house." pic.twitter.com/qcjwMVWORP — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 24, 2026   Lemire then asked how the idea of conspiracy theories affect art (a way that could be asked twofold): LEMIRE: The idea of how the rise of conspiracy theories, we can't even agree on the same set of facts. How does that spill over into art? How is it sometimes tough to tell the message you want to because people simply don't want to believe?” COON: (...) I think what people understand is that art has a responsibility in times like these. And when you start to experience the repression of autocracy, art rises up and starts to get more irreverent and more gross and more in-your-face. And I think that's the moment we're seeing in art in this country right now.  Coon then stated “we all know that where art goes, there goes democracy” before she shared a claim of what the audience would want from art right now: And we're finding the audience responding in that way. They are hungry for this kind of darkness, for irreverence, for nudity, for blood. They want to see it. And we are feeling that in the house. In the very last little segment of the show, Coon got the last word and used it to defend artist’s public display of leftist opinions (Click “expand”): Wow. I guess I'll say - you know, I hear often on social media, people tell me that artists shouldn't speak about politics, that we should just be there to entertain. But art has always been political. And I would say what artists understand is the power of language.  And one of the ways this regime has excelled is in using language to, for example, dehumanize immigrants. We wouldn't be in the situation we're in right now had Donald Trump not come down the escalator talking about Mexicans as rapists. It started from the jump. And we know the power - how that language accumulates over time. And we would do well to pay attention to the way that we're speaking about these issues. It is ironic that the actress went on Morning Joe to showcase a play that is focused on the consequences of conspiracy theories given that MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) has spread a good amount of conspiracies, especially after the first Trump assassination attempt. And as we saw with some political activism from "artists" in the first Trump term, some depicted images of a bloody Trump, like Kathy Griffin’s infamous Trump image. Maybe Carrie Coon should listen to those against artists' heavy political activism because it seems like she might need a break. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe February 24, 2026 9:49:38 AM Eastern JONATHAN LEMIRE: Welcome back. An intense thriller with themes relevant for today's heavy times, now showing on Broadway. The play Bug stars Tony award nominated actress Carrie Coon, and it centers around a poor and lonely waitress who is staying in a rundown motel. There, she meets a secretive war veteran who convinces her that he is the victim of a government experiment. Over time, his delusions become hers, and the audience watches as the pair descend into madness. The play's run has been extended twice., And Carrie Coon joins us now, chuckling along as she hears the phrase “descends into madness”. CARRIE COON: Yes. LEMIRE: Great to see you again. Welcome back. COON: Thank you for having me back, I appreciate it. LEMIRE; So, let's just start this. Tell us why this production? Why now? COON: Well, you know, Tracy wrote the play in 1996, the year after the Oklahoma City bombing. It's his most well researched play. And when he looked into the, you know, the circumstances, he discovered that the internet was going to be this place for conspiracy thinking. And so whereas people used to have their tinfoil hats alone in their room, now they would be able to proliferate these ideas in a new way. And so he wrote this play. And here we are. I think I don't have to say why that kind of thinking is relevant today. But, you know, what I love about the play is that it's also a love story because Tracy, where he couldn't necessarily understand why somebody would embrace these ideas, he did understand what people give up or embrace for love. And so he couched it in the form of a love story. And so it's this kind of zany, funny, gross, terrifying play that doesn't normally show on Broadway, frankly, this kind of thing. MOLLY JONG-FAST: When I was reading the review, the New York Times review, it is - it could not be more delighted by your performance -  COON:  Oh thank you. JONG-FAST: - in the play. So I'm just curious, like, there's so much, you know, you're married to the playwright. The play was written a long time ago. The themes matter a lot right now. Talk us through all the feelings. And you're also just amazing in it. So talk us through the feelings you have about that. COON: Well, of course I'm delighted, for Tracy's sake. It's a play he never thought would necessarily be on Broadway. This is probably the biggest house that's ever been in, frankly, in the history of the play. The fact that we're getting a lot of young people in the theater is really thrilling. I mean, I certainly adore our subscribers. We wouldn't have theater without them. But I'm seeing a lot of young people coming who are television fans, who've never been to a play before, and that's really exciting. There are no cell phones in the house, and I'm finding that at halftime you hear people talking to each other. That's actually thrilling. People are really focused in on the storytelling.  And I think we all understand, we're in a moment where we have lost sight of the truth. We thought the internet would make the truth rise to the top, but in fact it sinks to the bottom. We are experiencing a moment where, for some reason, part of our population believes that one percent of immigrants are inflicting financial pain on them, or one percent of transgender people are the source of their troubles, when in fact one percent of the population are billionaires who are controlling everything. And yet we have a segment of our population that seems entirely focused on these groups. LEMIRE: So let's talk about that. The idea of how the rise of conspiracy theories, we can't even agree on the same set of facts. How does that spill over into art? How is it sometimes tough to tell the message you want to because people simply don't want to believe? COON: Right. I mean - I think what's - I think that's what's interesting about this play right now, to return to that original question, I think what people understand is that art has a responsibility in times like these. And when you start to experience the repression of autocracy, art rises up and starts to get more irreverent and more gross and more in-your-face. And I think that's the moment we're seeing in art in this country right now.  A necessary correction for art in this country right now. I mean, artists have never been more persecuted here than they are. We have seen our funding cut not only for visual art and theater, but also for our museums. What's happened to the Kennedy Center? We are in an unprecedented time in America, and we all know that where art goes, there goes democracy.  So I think we have a responsibility to, kind of, tell these sorts of stories right now. And we're finding the audience responding in that way. They are hungry for this kind of darkness, for irreverence, for nudity, for blood. They want to see it. And we are feeling that in the house. And I hope people will come out in our last two weeks and really experience this in a group with other people. LEMIRE: Bug, extremely important and timely. (...) (...) 9:56:43 AM LEMIRE: So Carrie Coon ended up sitting here through the commercial break, so we will simply give her the final thought of the morning. COON: Wow. I guess I'll say - you know, I hear often on social media, people tell me that artists shouldn't speak about politics, that we should just be there to entertain. But art has always been political. And I would say what artists understand is the power of language.  And one of the ways this regime has excelled is in using language to, for example, dehumanize immigrants. We wouldn't be in the situation we're in right now had Donald Trump not come down the escalator talking about Mexicans as rapists. It started from the jump. And we know the power - how that language accumulates over time. And we would do well to pay attention to the way that we're speaking about these issues. LEMIRE: Carrie Coon, with our morning's final words. Thank you again for joining us.  

Google made sure its viewers knew its stance on President Donald Trump’s record-breaking State of the Union address with a flurry of elitist media hits against his speech on Wednesday morning.  In its coverage of Trump’s comments, Google News promoted eight leftist media outlets, while denying reporting from any right-leaning media outlets. Google painted a subtle but clear picture of its rejection of the president and his policies as it pushed reporting from outlets like The New York Times, Business Insider, National Public Radio (NPR), The Guardian and NBC News. The elitist media derided Trump’s speech, in some cases stating outright that it was rife with false and misleading claims, and in others framing stories around how Democratic lawmakers boycotted the speech entirely. MRC’s Findings: Google News pushed reporting on Trump’s State of the Union address as its first eight articles, using elitist media outlets to undercut Trump in the top 20 of its morning edition. Google News did not promote a single article from a right-leaning media outlet on Trump’s State of the Union address, while the digital news gatekeeper promoted nine articles from left-leaning or center media outlets in the top 20 stories of its morning edition.  The only “center” article Google News offered on Trump’s speech came from the government-funded, UK-based BBC.  Below are the nine articles Google News promoted on Trump’s State of the Union address in the order they appeared: (1) BBC (Center): Trump’s State of the Union speech - at a glance (2) The New York Times (Left-Leaning): Opinion ‘A Tedious, Tiresome Performance’: The Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s State of the Union (3) The Guardian (Left-Leaning): Trump claims a year of wins and attacks old foes in longest State of the Union | First Thing (4) Business Insider (Left-Leaning): I went to Trump’s State of the Union. This was the moment when the room’s mood shifted. (5) NPR (Left-Leaning): Signs, silence, skipping: How Democrats protested Trump’s State of the Union (6) Politico (Left-Leaning): Abigail Spanberger gave Democrats’ response to Trump. But she didn’t have the stage to herself. (7) The New York Times (Left-Leaning): Democrats, Boycotting Trump’s Speech, Rally Outside the Capitol (8) NBC News (Left-Leaning): At Least 12 Democratic lawmakers plan to boycott Trump’s State of the Union address (20) The New York Times (Left-Leaning): Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains Google News did not hide its disdain for Trump in its morning offerings. The digital news gatekeeper completely shut out right-leaning outlets from the nine separate articles it offered on Trump’s State of the Union address.  Google did not even pretend to remain neutral. Eight of the nine articles Google elevated in its top 20 morning edition came from outlets rated left-leaning by AllSides media bias rating firm, and the only “center”-rated article was foreign government-funded BBC. An opinion piece put out by The New York Times took the cake as arguably the worst of the elitist media outlet articles promoted by Google News. Its headline, “Opinion ‘A Tedious, Tiresome Performance’: The Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s State of the Union,” gives readers a glimpse of the cavalcade of anti-Trump derision that is to come later in the article. While the piece pretends to give a “Best Moment” versus “Worst Moment” sort of appeal, Times op-ed columnist Michelle Goldberg’s response to what she thought was the “Best Moment” seems to reveal what The Times really wants you to take away: “The moment when, after setting a record for the longest State of the Union in recorded history, it finally ended.”  Not to be outdone, Google News also elevated a piece from UK-based outlet The Guardian, headlined, “First Thing: Trump claims a year of wins and attacks old foes in longest State of the Union.” While that headline alone isn’t overtly biased, The Guardian’s subheader does the dirty work for Google: “President’s address was littered with false and misleading claims. Plus, how Trump’s big climate finding repeal could actually hurt big oil.”  Google News also pushed articles from NPR, NBC News and an additional piece from The Times that trumpeted Democratic lawmakers boycotting Trump’s State of the Union in headlines. The tech titan similarly promoted a Business Insider piece that devoted an entire section to “The Democratic side of the aisle was conspicuously less full.” With the appearance of being the most benign story on Trump’s speech, Google News also pushed a BBC article that was anything but benign. While the piece’s first section touted the length of Trump’s oration, BBC’s next three sections dragged on with contentious moments like the president’s “face-to-face” encounter with U.S. Supreme Court justices “who struck down his tariffs,” the ejection of Democrat Al Greene from the room “again” and Rep. Ilhan Omar’s so-called “‘Stand up’ moment.” The BBC, meanwhile, buried the triumphal entry of “Victorious hockey stars” entering the room to “chants of ‘U-S-A, U-S-A’” as well as a section on those who received honors from Trump. Google News once again promoted The Times more than any other outlet. In its third appearance in Google’s top 20 stories on Wednesday, The Times chose to color Trump’s speech as his attempt at a “survival strategy.” Right from the jump, The Times set the tone for a piece clearly trying to undermine the president with the headline “Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains,” and subheadline, “On the defensive over the economy and with the midterms approaching, President Trump made clear that his political strategy is to paint Democrats as unpatriotic and ‘crazy.’” The cherry on top comes just before the conclusion of the piece, whereby The Times makes sure to remind its readers of one of its favorite anti-Trump smears: Jan. 6. Google News also elevated an article from Politico, but unlike the others, the Politico piece focused squarely on the Democratic Party rebuttal to Trump’s State of the Union address. Throughout, the Google News-promoted article highlighted how “[v]arious Democratic factions” hosted several events designed to “challenge President Donald Trump.” Methodology: The day after President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Feb. 25, 2026, MRC researchers examined the top 20 news stories featured on Google News at approximately 8:30 AM ET. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and Google News and analyzed the results.  Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.