The elitist media are wildly inconsistent on President Trump, except for one thing: the coverage has to be negative. So this week, it swung from "Trump's about to destroy Iranian civilization" to "Trump chickened out again" when they announced a ceasefire. Whichever direction Trump takes -- left or right, backward or forward -- it's always wrong.  CNN host Erin Burnett reflected the tone of Democrats in social media by flipping from outrage at Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure to claiming he’s a coward when they announce a temporary ceasefire: “Trump has backed off. And there will be some who will call it, you know -- ‘TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out' -- which is making way too light of it. But it is also a truth, which is that he makes giant threats that he does not follow through on.” MRC Video Senior Director Eric Scheiner and MRC Video lead content creator Brittany Hughes joined the show to discuss all things anti-Trump. Brittany focused this week (as she often does) on misreported narratives on mass deportation, for example a Mexican man who "died in ICE custody." It was ruled a suicide, but the media accounts make ICE sound responsible. There's also a horrific story of a Haitian immigrant in Florida who killed a woman by repeatedly using a hammer on her skull. That's the kind of story they skip.  The president put out a outrage-inducing Easter message on social media about Iran that had the F-bomb in it. Add to that a sarcastic use of "praise Allah" on Easter. But guess how many times Jake Tapper repeated Trump’s F-bomb quote on Easter? FIVE times…it’s the same way CNN said "s***-hole" 195 times in a 24-hour period when it was reported by Democrats that Trump described Third World countries that way. But also in the first minutes of Easter Sunday, we had the "Weekend Update" segment on Saturday Night Live, where fake anchor Michael Che was joking about how Trump went to the Kennedy Center to see a play, and made the joke what’s the worst thing that could happen? That's an obvious reference to the Abe Lincoln assassination. CNN had no outrage for that.  Che ended up on our "Worst of the Week" ballot, in addition to Chuck Todd claiming that while some worry Iran is radical enough to use a nuclear weapon on us, we should be afraid of Trump, who might drop a nuclear bomb: "I could see him being that crazy." Then there was Bruce Springsteen on stage in Minneapolis saying America used to be "a beacon for hope and liberty," but it's now ruined by this "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration." He suggested his side favored "the rule of law over lawlessness." That's just upside down, where the illegal aliens are following the rule of law and ICE agents are the "lawless" ones.  Enjoy the video podcast below, or the audio version is here.     

On Wednesday Night’s The 11th Hour on MS NOW, host Stephanie Ruhle and her panel bizarrely praised the Iranian regime for how they held “deep beliefs” “that they will die for,” and chided President Trump for not holding America in a similar regard. Former Under Secretary of State Rick Stengel also claimed that the president was wrong to think those forming human chains were paid protestors, and compared them to those with American patriotism, as he said Trump had no "ideological belief” or “patriotism” for America. Amid a now-constant media news cycle built with fear and belief of the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. had faltered, the panel discussion went from talk about the Strait of Hormuz to Trump’s apparent failure to understand Iran, since he has no ideological beliefs of his own.   Under no circumstances do you 'have to hand it to them.' MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle commends Iran for "the fact that they have a deep belief in something. That's unfathomable to [Trump]. That they will die for." pic.twitter.com/I9aJhtWwrs — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 9, 2026   A member of the Financial Times editorial board, Gillian Tett, started the ‘you have to hand it to them' commentary towards Iran with a reference to Trump’s love of money: So, the fact that the Iranian regime has a really strong conviction, which frankly, at this point has doesn't have much to do with money, it's to do with survival and their vision of what the nation is - Bloomberg Opinion senior executive editor, Tim O’Brien, described by program graphics as a “Trump biographer,” mentioned their religion drove them. Tett continued, “You know, and we might hate it. We might like it, whatever. But it's a very different mentality that President Trump is the very worst person to try and empathize with and understand. And if you don't empathize with your opponent and understand what's driving them, it's very hard to make a deal.” After Stengal said Trump “doesn't understand anybody who believes in anything,” Ruhle implied one might disagree with Iran, but you do have to commend them on one thing: RUHLE: I mean this is a phenomenal point because you could disagree with Iran and what their point of view is, but it's - the fact that they have a deep belief in something. That's unfathomable to him. STENGEL: That they will die for. RUHLE: That they will die for. That they’ll destroy their country for. Yeah, let’s just hand that to them, at least they have a radical Islamist religious ideology that they believe in that has made them the lead source of terror in the Middle East, and has killed many American troops. No issues here. Moving on from whatever that was, Stengel said Trump didn’t understand Iranian “patriotism” since he held not ideological patriotic beliefs about America. He then said all the human chains around power plants, a war crime, were organic: Yes. I mean, he has no ideological belief or patriotism about America, and he doesn't think anybody else does. So, when he sees Iranians lining up around power grids, he can't understand that. He thinks they're being paid to do it. It does not seem organic for women and children to form chains around power plants dressed in the same all black garb while they wave Islamic Republic flags. For a regime that used their civilians as shields on bridges and powers plants, you probably should not praise their ideology just to get back at your disliked politicians. Or, it is better put this way:   issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" — wint (@dril) February 15, 2017   The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle April 8, 2026 11:08:30 PM Eastern (...) GILLIAN TETT: The other thing is what this reveals is that President Trump comes from a background where he assumes that money can buy everything and money drives everything, and he wants to cut a deal with everyone using money. And he assumes that other people will basically fall in line on the back of that.  So, the fact that the Iranian regime has a really strong conviction, which frankly, at this point has doesn't have much to do with money, it's to do with survival and their vision of what the nation is - TIM O’BRIEN: And religion TETT: - a religion. You know, and we might hate that. We might like it, whatever. But it's a very different mentality that President Trump is the very worst person to try and empathize with and understand. And if you don't empathize with your opponent and understand what's driving them, it's very hard to make a deal. RICK STENGEL: He doesn't understand anybody who believes in anything. And by the way, the people who are really -  STEPHANIE RUHLE: I mean this is a phenomenal point because you could disagree with Iran and what their point of view is, but it's - the fact that they have a deep belief in something. That's unfathomable to him. STENGEL: That they will die for. RUHLE: That they will die for. That they’ll destroy their country for. STENGEL: Yes. I mean, he has no ideological belief or patriotism about America, and he doesn't think anybody else does. So, when he sees Iranians lining up around power grids, he can't understand that. He thinks they're being paid to do it. But the people who can identify with this, who are very, very unhappy about this are the Gulf States. The Gulf States were - America is protecting them. They signed the Abraham accords. They always were against Iran. They worried about Iran. When I was in the State Department and visited all the Gulf States to talk about ISIS, they would go “ISIS-[schismus],” were much more concerned about Iran.  And now big brother, big daddy that was supposed to deal with Iran has not. Iran is more empowered over the straits. All of their oil goes through the straits. I mean, they feel like now they're out there on a limb with nothing. (...)

On Thursday, miserable leftist podcasts Jennifer Welch and sidekick Angie “Pumps” Sullivan dedicated their latest edition of their show I’ve Had It to more prepubescent, almost Satanic flogging of Christianity, complaining businesses and schools are closed for religious holidays, trashing their own families for having a belief in Jesus, and argued “religion” has been used to “marginaliz[e] poor, hungry people.” The quackery commenced from the get-go when Welch said she’s “had it with there being no holiday for non-religious people” and society revolving too much around religions, particularly Christianity and Judaism when it should give more voice to “non-believers, secular people, atheists, agnostic, flying spaghetti monster” types: WATCH: Jennifer Welch complains stores, schools, and shops are closed for religious holidays and there aren't any days for atheists and other secularists... Jennifer Welch: “Okay, I have had it with there being no holiday for non-religious people.” Angie Sullivan: “That’s… pic.twitter.com/2oXdOTqyc2 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 “[W]e don’t get anything because I want the luxury of being able to say, ‘oh, here’s the deal. Sorry, I didn’t get your email. I’m having an extended flying spaghetti monster celebration a week.’ I want the luxury of piling on extra days of not working. And the Christians have it. The Muslims have it. Jewish faith has it. We don’t get jack shit. We don’t get anything here,” Welch added. Sullivan, for her part, shared her plans for how, whenever it may be, she’ll celebrate President Trump’s passing: NSFW: Angie "Pumps" Sullivan has a DISGUSTING plan to celebrate whenever DOnald Trump dies ("the big beautiful obituary") pic.twitter.com/efjy9B5Dwx — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Skipping ahead in this hodgepodge show, Welch spotlighted a documentary from former NBA player Dwayne Wade celebrating fellow fathers of trans kids. These dads, Welch argued, are the true Christians because embracing their children playing god with their biology represents “radical love and resistance” and “[t]he Jesus character in the Bible, radical impact, radical love and I just think this is so beautiful that these dads are doing this because regardless of how many laws these politicians make, trans people are going to exist.” Gag me: Jennifer Welch fawns over a documentary that premiered at SXSW about dads supporting, embracing, and defending their trans kids. Of course, she argues these dads are real followers of Jesus exhibiting "radical love" and proof more politicians should be making… pic.twitter.com/ULe3GRpsC3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Welch even argued politicians should do more to embrace support for transgenderism: “The suicide rate among this group is astronomically high...this is not a time to see this community as a political liability and throw them under the bus. It is a time to advocate and platform for these people. And I just think this group of dads is exactly what I needed[.]” Incredibly, she also claimed the left is not trying to trans children in schools (click “expand”): Jennifer Welch says the left is NOT trying to trans your kids at all... “[Y]ou have all of these politicians that make up this crazy lie that there’s this woke, gender agenda of furries that use litter boxes that are whacking off weiners in school and all this crazy shit. And… pic.twitter.com/qQuPW8B5rv — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 WELCH: And then you have all of these politicians that make up this crazy lie that there’s this woke, gender agenda of furries that use litter boxes that are whacking off weiners in school and all this crazy shit. And the people who wanna brainwash your kids are the book banners. SULLIVAN: Right. WELCH: The people who want to indoctrinate your kids are the people that lead with hate and judgment. The people who are preaching equality and radical love and unconditional love, they just want their kids to be who they are and for your kids to be who they are. Even if your kids a little dick, they’re not gonna get all up in your business. The show then moved to take calls from a few of their supposed fans. The first one left them giggling with glee as a woman named “Nat” attacked Christianity and bemoaned having to attend Easter services and be around family at a Cracker Barrel: VILE: Jennifer Welch’s podcast features a caller who whined they were “dragged to church this morning” and had to sit “through this hour-long service of this man that was just babbling about who even knows what the fuck” and “the entire time I..literally tried not to laugh”… pic.twitter.com/8ujzPqNy0c — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Welch made it seem like her own version of Guantanamo: “That is my worst nightmare. Church leads to Cracker Barrel, which leads to Stanley Cups. It’s like an infinite loop of slippery slopes that all lead to MAGA and the death cult.” This inspired Sullivan to spend a massive chunk of the show ripping her own family, specifically her own mother for being a Christian: “So, I say, I’m gonna be out of town. But even if I was in town, I just don’t feel good about going to church with you unless they’re talking about how we need to unite against all the injustices people getting shot in the streets of America, little girls getting shot in school in Iran, like, I just can’t be in that room unless they do that,” she declared. INSUFFERABLE: Jennifer Welch’s co-host — Angie “Pumps” Sullivan — TRASHES her own mother on their podcast, saying she’d never go to church “unless they’re talking about how we need to unite against all the injustices people getting shot in the streets of America” and how much she… pic.twitter.com/0w6q99202G — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Possessing cavernous levels of insecurity, Sullivan continued with a sadistic takedown of prayer and how, if she were invited to Easter dinner next year, she’d ambush the blessing with a politically-motivated, middle-finger-strewn takedown that Welch would write. Welch praised her “for standing up for all of the people that this regime under the veil and the cloak of Christianity as a permission structure to kill people and marginalized people” before going to the so-called prayer that she said would be “the most woke ass, original Jesus” prayer: Jennifer Welch on what a real Christian prayer should sound like because “ it’s really sad how much religion plays a role...in marginalizing poor, hungry people”... “Jesus, I want you to lift a hand up and put your hand on all of the children that Donald Trump and his murderous… pic.twitter.com/Einqp5On8F — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Here was her supposed prayer (click “expand”):     WELCH: Okay, so Jesus, I want you to lift a hand up and put your hand on all of the children that Donald Trump and his murderous regime have taken food and school lunches and child care away from. Jesus — Jesus just helped these people. Jesus just helped these little children protect themselves from this evil, anti-Christ leader named Donald Trump.” How does that go over? If you’re real pointed like that. SULLIVAN: If it was really pointed like that —  WELCH: Do you think you kicked out of the lunch? SULLIVAN: No. WELCH: Okay. SULLIVAN: No, I think it would just be crickets and the whole, if there would just be a ton of tension in the whole house. But I don’t think anybody would say, they would never say you have to leave, but I would want to leave because of like how tight it would make everybody. WELCH: Yeah. SULLIVAN: I’ll tell you who would fucking love it is my daughter. I mean, she would just be like, “Mom, that was a great” — I mean, she would totally do the double down with me. It’s doubtful these two would engage in such repulsive mockery of Islam and Mohammad the way they have with Christianity and Jesus. “[I]t’s really sad that when you just think about all of the wealth that’s been transferred to the worst people in the world and at the expense of these poor kids, because I think your mom at her core, she wouldn’t want these kids to not have things, but they’re just so indoctrinated and radicalized in this cruel, kind of twisted, mental gymnastics thing. And it’s really sad how much religion plays a role in the United States, in marginalizing poor hungry people,” Welch added. To close out the show, Welch took aim at working class Americans and anyone she believes doesn’t share her view of what it means to be human Jennifer Welch says the right has been carrying out “a mass dehumanization” that America has “never reconciled or atoned for,” ranging from “mass shootings” to [t]he demonization of the poor, the bragged exploitation of immigrant labor, the moral duplicity of people that enjoy… pic.twitter.com/HyogkXkm5F — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 9, 2026 Sullivan had some of her own class contempt for Trump voters, which Welch was all too happy to join in (click “expand”): SULLIVAN: Okay, so you were in my head, I was driving. There’s this piece of shit truck with this big Trump flag on it, driving, turned into a piece of shit house. And I just thought, that’s our capitalist, capitalist with no capital right there. WELCH: It’s crazy. It’s unbelievable how successful Republican messaging has been to shift the working class voters to think that Donald Trump is gonna help you. Like, it’s crazy, but I mean, God, I mean, this is just where we are. But hopefully, I think that if we can get through these elections and I don’t know that we will. SULLIVAN: Yes. WELCH: I really don’t. I mean, I think they’re gonna do everything they can. But I think it’s gonna be a big blue tsunami, hopefully. To see the relevant transcript of the April 9 episode of I’ve Had It, click here.

On Tuesday, the never-ending Biden Press Secretary show on MS NOW, The Briefing with Jen Psaki, took up a supposedly disturbing journalistic trend in Baltimore. Some "MAGA billionaire" is forcing the liberal Democrat governor of Maryland -- Wes Moore -- to answer questions about his exaggerations of his life story. Psaki wasn't going to ask Moore about his lies. She was going to underline the right-wing bias problem:  PSAKI: I want to ask you about another reason you're in the news right now, which is your record in the military, and in office has come under remarkably close scrutiny by the Baltimore Sun. And on is face, it’s not a bad thing, obviously journalism is important, and certainly public figures should be scrutinized. But what people should know about the larger context is that the paper is now owned by a Trump ally named David Smith, who is the executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. We've talked about the Sinclair Broadcast Group a lot on this show. And according to new reporting from Semafor, the paper has brought on a team of investigators from Sinclair to comb through your record and in one message to your staff, they even threatened to present their findings to the Secretary of the Army's office. Now, I have been, I have dealt with a lot of investigative reporters in my time. I have never heard of anything like that before. But explain for our viewers what is happening here. Jen Psaki and Gov. Wes Moore (D-Md.) lament that the Baltimore Sun used to be the "paper of record" (when it was a liberal paper) and now it's hopelessly "right wing" when it probes Moore's biographical lies. AI titled this clip "Baltimore Sun Under Sinclair Influence: A… pic.twitter.com/ZRzcwwstfD — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 9, 2026 Psaki harrumphed briefly about "public figures should be scrutinized," but Democrats aren't going to be scrutinized on her show, or MS NOW in general. Moore was granted a platform to disparage the "right-wing" paper's efforts:  WES MOORE: Well, it's actually a very sad day because the Baltimore Sun used to be our paper of record. It's now become the paper of the right wing. And I think we've seen how the readership has continued to decline, but it's happened because you've had a MAGA billionaire who is now currying favor for the president of the United States and utilizing what used to be a prized paper for our region, and now turning it into something that is not much more than right wing dribble. You know, the I'm deeply proud of my military service. I'm deeply proud of the fact that I served with, with, with people who I respect. And frankly, no one in the Army questions. The United States Army doesn't question my integrity. The soldiers I serve with don't question my integrity. It's plain that Moore claimed he received a Bronze Star he had not been awarded – The New York Times, not a right-wing paper, reported that in 2024. If reporting like that is “questioning his integrity,” some liberal “papers of record” did that. But Moore kept hammering his “right-wing” line, to shame voters out of taking this story line seriously. MOORE: But we are seeing how the right wing, and these right wing billionaires like David Smith is then using his wealth to be able to manipulate local media and is doing it not just in Maryland, but this is a canary in the coal mine for things that are happening all over the country. And they're doing it to curry favor for Donald Trump. And so, so it's, it's unfortunate that this is where that this is where local news for the Baltimore Sun and for the Sinclair properties have happened. But I do think it's an important warning shot for the rest of the country as well. Accountability journalism is a “warning shot" and a "canary in the coal mine." 

The liberal media coverage of the approaching deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of their infrastructure, featured non-stop attacks on the President, with accusations of pending war crimes. When the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday night, instead of giving Trump credit, they trashed him for the agreement itself, and now they're back to repeating claims that Trump was led into the war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is being dredged up again in a book, Regime Change, due out in June, which claims that is the case. And on Wednesday's edition of Fox's The Five, liberal Panelist Jessica Tarlov couldn't wait to unload on Israel, and it didn't go over well. TARLOV: The linchpin story on this, and we have been tracing this particular plot line since the beginning, is what Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported yesterday in the excerpt of their book.....And it's  about a meeting on February 11 in the Situation Room and Bibi Netanyahu was there. He was sitting at the table with our leadership, and he pitched them on this war. Donald Trump was interested. Pete Hegseth was interested. Everybody else -- Ratcliffe, 'farcical', Rubio, 'it's BS', General Caine, 'standard operating procedure for Israelis, they oversell', Susie Wiles, 'we can't be dragged into another Middle Eastern war.'  Israel pushed us to do this....When Rubio came out and he said the truth to the gaggle of reporters, the imminent threat was not against us, it was something that was happening for Israel, is the core piece of this.  It's no surprise that Tarlov, who recently admitted that she, relies upon reporters who have had long careers in foreign policy when she doesn't know something, would be relying on a yet unpublished book to trash Netanyahu and Israel.  She also failed to mention that Rubio had corrected his first statement on the reason for the war. Fellow panelist Paul Mauro wasn't pleased with what he had been hearing. MAURO: I find this to be a very, very dangerous meme.  This idea that Israel is leading Donald Trump around by the nose. He doesn't know any better, he didn't see Bibi coming, and all of a sudden now, a guy who doesn't want to listen to anybody on anything because he's the most powerful  person in the world is falling for deceptions from one of our allies.  That was nothing compared to Greg Gutfeld's reaction to Tarlov's outrageous claims.  GUTFELD: I am old enough to remember when Jews as a puppeteer was some kind of an anti-Semitic trope. But all of a sudden, that's just  gone by the wayside. The Jews are controlling us. I thought I blew that out of the water last week when I said that Trump had been talking about doing the exact same stuff to Iran for decades. Including going after Kharg Island. Here we are going no, it wasn't his idea, it was the Jews, the Jews! Later, the crew played a brief clip of far left radical streamer/influencer Hasan Piker, which included his downplaying the rape of Israeli civilians on October 7th, his disdain for America, and his message to an older woman who suffered under a Communist government. PIKER CLIP: None of this justifies that Palestinians have a right to dignity, a right to emancipation, a right to live [bleep] free lives, free from this occupation. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if [bleep] rapes happened on October 7. I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart, for America. America deserved 9/11. [Bleep] Up you stupid [bleep] idiotic old lady. Suck my [bleep], old lady. Now you might think that after being taken to task by Gutfeld and Mauro, when given a chance, Tarlov would denounce Piker, and express disgust at those in her party like Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan, who have cozied up to him, but you would be dead wrong.  TARLOV: Well, it's not,  you have to watch the full tape of it. He is saying what Dana was saying, which he thinks that Israel's response is not proportionate to what was done to Israel. GUTFELD: He has no right to say that. TARLOV: Then you should just not like him. And a lot of people don't like him. GUTFELD: You do? TARLOV:: It's not really about like or don't like thing.  Was Jessica Tarlov having a particularly bad day, or did she go much further in revealing her true, vile, radical leftist views than she has in the past? She ended up laying out a gushy profile in The New York Times as an explanation for his appeal to young men.