Media Research Center (MRC) President  David Bozell joined Lara Trump, host of the Right View Podcast, on Thursday to talk about how the elitist media – despite historically low levels of trust and viewers – are strengthening their grip on America’s news narrative. Bozell said it feels like Americans are “watching two different movies,” getting two entirely different versions of reality. To understand the phenomenon, he asked the MRC staff a simple question: if trust in elitist media is collapsing, why are left-wing outlets such as The New York Times and CNN still drawing massive online audiences? If the elitist media's ratings are in the toilet, how do their websites still get millions of hits per month? The New York Times, CNN, ABC, etc. have migrated to the Big Four News Apps — it's just regurgitated left-wing opinion masquerading as news.@DavidBozell @LaraLeaTrump pic.twitter.com/tsqV44AQdL — Media Research Center (@theMRC) January 30, 2026 The answer lies in the quiet power of the Four Big News Apps: Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Using a newly developed proprietary tool, the MRC Digital News Tracker, Bozell explained that the MRC Free Speech America Team now documents how these Big Four News Apps are overwhelmingly promoting stories from leftist news sites, including The New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, and The Washington Post, while systematically excluding right-leaning news outlets.  It's kind of a miracle the conservative media ecosystem does so well without any help from the four biggest news apps in America today.@DavidBozell @LaraLeaTrump pic.twitter.com/P1aMNkHLLq — Media Research Center (@theMRC) January 30, 2026 Between the four of them, the Big Four News Apps get about 550 million views each month in America. “MSN is pre-loaded on virtually every personal computer in America,” Bozell noted. “If you have an Android, Google News is pre-loaded on your phone. If you have an iPhone, Apple News is pre-loaded on it. Yahoo is often incorrectly dismissed as a relic of the internet past, but if you have a Yahoo email domain, if you're checking your fantasy football, if you're going on Yahoo Finance, you are getting Yahoo headlines.” For many Americans, the Big Four News Apps are the news. “The net effect of this is a false mirror, where the left-wing narrative The New York Times and CNN put out is considered to be the consensus in the country.” Watch Bozell’s full interview with Trump here.  

Journalists are rarely arrested, in part because the media elites freak out, since they apparently can never commit a crime if they're trying to interview people. Former CNN host Don Lemon can't be part of a mob violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, to which they added churches. Now if a journalist was part of a mob invading an abortion clinic, we all know the Left would freak out about that. MRC external affairs manager Jerris Jackson and MRC Free Speech America staff writer Tom Olohan joined the show to discuss Lemon and ICE and every left-wing vice. Media elites suggested the Lemon arrest was an unprecedented descent into authoritarianism. But in March of 2024, Biden's FBI arrested journalist Steve Baker of The Blaze for being present with January 6 protesters. None of them objected to that journalist's arrest.  Ten years ago, then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris charged pro-life activist David Daleiden with 15 felony counts in California for recording conversations without consent. He interviewed Planned Parenthood staffers who explained how they sold dead baby parts for profit.  As usual, the standards are based on whether or not you're on "the right side of history," and conservative journalists aren't considered journalists. Their activists are journalists, and our journalists are propagandists.  At least the Sunday shows appeared to be hedging on Lemon. CBS didn’t mention it, NBC touched on it in one question, and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos faced strong pushback from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. But on Friday night's "Thunderdome" (CNN NewsNight), host Abby Phillip incorrectly claimed that Lemon was not named in a part of the indictment where he was in fact included. She wound up being corrected by panelist and New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan. “The indictment obviously suggested that he posted himself at the main door, he prevented people from exiting.” Speaking of CNN, their CEO Mark Thompson was confronted by leftist staffers at an internal town hall who "questioned the behavior" of conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings, claiming he used inappropriate terms on television like...."illegal aliens." One Democrat who's faced off with Jennings, Julie Roginsky, complained on Substack that he is “rude, dismissive, and antagonistic in ways that feel personal rather than substantive.” How would that make him stand out on CNN, considering how rude and antagonistic they are toward Republicans all the time?  Finally, Trump fans eagerly turned out and loved the new Melania documentary – and the very liberal movie-critic mob couldn't stand it. Early projections are that it will make $8.1 million at the box office in its opening weekend, much more than the first estimates of $3-5 million. The Hollywood Reporter sounded crestfallen: "No one saw that coming." They should have.  Watch the podcast below. The audio is here. Spread the word about our media-bias busting.         https://youtu.be/xdaaIqxXwqk?si=D9kIvzB_g0_7RmHq

One way "public" broadcasters demonstrate their dramatic leftist bias is by which books and authors they promote. On January 27, they featured an interview by co-anchor Geoff Bennett of Howard Bryant -- former ESPN The Magazine columnist, and perpetual racial grievance machine -- lionizing the famous black Stalinist puppet and actor Paul Robeson. Bennett talked to Bryant about his new book, Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. That's a heroic athlete and a villainous communist. But not in the minds of the PBS elite. Geoff Bennett: At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, baseball great Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to publicly disavow the comments of another prominent black American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson….let's start our conversation with the key moment in your book, that testimony in front of the House un-American Activities Committee in 1949. Paul Robeson was this outspoken activist with Soviet sympathies and he had been quoted as saying -- it turned out the quote was somewhat exaggerated, but he was saying that black Americans would never fight for a country like the U.S. against a country like the Soviet Union that believed in their equality. And this was Robinson's response in front of the committee: After an archive clip of Robinson’s testimony, this assumption-loaded exchange took place: Bennett: Paul Robeson, we should remind folks, was a giant of his time. Is his disappearance from popular memory, is that a historical accident or a deliberate act of forgetting? Bryant: It's a 100 percent deliberate act. And it shows the power of the Cold War and the power of McCarthyism and so much of the language that we're hearing today about enemy of the people and the enemy within. This is what it was back then. And I think there was no greater disqualifying word, no greater weapon against an American citizen than to call them a communist at that time…. It didn't matter if the accusation was 100% accurate.  Again, host Bennett set Bryant up to bring up ominous modern Trump parallels, while draining out Robeson’s unforced, disgustingly fulsome support of the mass-murdering Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (support that began before the dread Joe McCarthy uttered a word against Robeson), to retain him as a pristine victim of the Red Scare, rather than an eager cheerleader for Stalin’s Red Terror. As Paul Kengor noted via The American Spectator: In 1952, shortly before Stalin’s death, Paul Robeson was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize, which he unhesitatingly accepted. And when his beloved Stalin perished in March 1953, Robeson was moved to tears and to verse. He responded with a poetic eulogy titled, “To You Beloved Comrade.” He tearfully recalled the unforgettable moment when he elevated his son, Paul Jr., at the site of Stalin, as if lifting the boy in the air to present him with some sort of supernatural commission. Robeson waxed reverently of this “kindly,” “good” man of “wisdom,” “deep humanity,” and “understanding.” Stalin’s “noble example” and “daily guidance” had left Russians a “rich and monumental heritage.” The death of the “great Stalin,” reported a heartbroken Robeson, left “tens of millions all over the earth bowed in heart-aching grief.” PBS and NPR will never interview Kengor -- perhaps because they fit the title of his book Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. That manipulation continues! Prodded by Bennett, Bryant extended his ominous parallels with the Trump Administration and Joe McCarthy, while neither of them breathed a word about Stalin.  Bryant: ….The complacency that we have today is very, very similar to the complacency that people felt back then, that the country wouldn't go as far, that we still believed in our institutions, and the institutions would save us and that common sense would prevail. And you think about that, it sounds very similar to how we are today, that this is just the time and we will get through it. But the effect of the Cold War, the effect of McCarthyism on Paul Robeson's life, the United States did not allow him to leave the country. They refused to issue him a passport, which was unconstitutional, and yet it happened. There were all kinds of legal and extralegal things that took place there that really destroyed this man…. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 1/27/26 7:43:05 p.m. (ET) Geoff Bennett: At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, baseball great Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to publicly disavow the comments of another prominent Black American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson. That fateful testimony is the subject of a new book, "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America," by journalist and author Howard Bryant. I sat down with Bryant recently to unpack the parallel lives of these two trailblazing men and the forces that ultimately pitted them against each other. Howard Bryant, welcome back to the "News Hour." Howard Bryant, Author, "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America": Yes, thanks for having me back. Geoff Bennett: And let's start our conversation with the key moment in your book, that testimony in front of the House un-American Activities Committee in 1949. Paul Robeson was this outspoken activist with Soviet sympathies and he had been quoted as saying -- it turned out the quote was somewhat exaggerated, but he was saying that Black Americans would never fight for a country like the U.S. against a country like the Soviet Union that believed in their equality. And this was Robeson's response in front of the committee: Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball Player:   I have been asked to express my views on Paul Robeson's statement in Paris, to the effect that American Negroes would refuse to fight in any war against Russia because we love Russia so much. I haven't any comment to make, except that -- on that statement, except that, if Mr. Robeson actually made it, it sounds very silly to me.   But he has a right to his personal views. And if he wants to sound silly when he expresses them in public, that's his business and not mine. Geoff Bennett: So how did Jackie Robinson find himself there pitted against Paul Robeson? Howard Bryant: Well, the biggest reason he found himself pitted against Robeson is from his employer, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the man responsible for integrating the big leagues with Robinson in 1947. Jackie really felt a responsibility. He felt a loyalty to Rickey. Rickey really implored him to appear. Jackie didn't want to do it. He felt like it was not his area. He was not that well-versed in the politics and certainly not the politics of the Cold War. But he also felt another responsibility, which was in his memoir he would say that he did not want the white allies who were sympathetic to civil rights to abandon that fight if they felt that Black citizens were disloyal to the United States, and he felt a sense of responsibility to ensure that. Geoff Bennett: Paul Robeson, we should remind folks, was a giant of his time. Is his disappearance from popular memory, is that a historical accident or a deliberate act of forgetting? Howard Bryant: It's a 100 percent deliberate act. And it shows the power of the Cold War and the power of McCarthyism and so much of the language that we're hearing today about enemy of the people and the enemy within. This is what it was back then. And I think there was no greater disqualifying word, no greater weapon against an American citizen than to call them a communist at that time. And I think one of the things that I was really trying to get at is the tension in the African American community in this book, because so much of the Black establishment felt that Robeson was toxic, and they abandoned him as well and, in doing that, really isolated him and set the stage for the federal government and the rest of the country to really turn its back on him as well. It was certainly not an accident. Time did some of it but really it was deliberate because of the tensions of that period. Geoff Bennett: And how did Jackie Robinson come to think of that testimony later in his own life? Did he regret it? Howard Bryant: Well, exactly, Geoff. And I think that the -- regret is a hard word for Jackie, because he's an athlete, just like Robeson was an athlete. And it's really hard to admit that he was wrong. However, he and Paul Robeson both ended up at the end of their lives quite disillusioned at the lack of progress in the country, and Jackie especially. That's why the title is what it is. The questions of whether or not I did the right thing and whether or not I was being used or manipulated or whether Robeson was or whether we all were, Rachel Robinson gave a great interview in 1976 where she said that Jackie was a patriot. He was a citizen. And it was -- he was, my country, right or wrong. But he did receive -- she said, we got two bad pieces of advice that we never really lived down. One was Jackie Robinson's support of Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. And the other was this testimony and -- against Robeson in 1949. And so he didn't exactly say I regret doing it, but he did say, if asked to do it again, I would say no. So I think that's as close as we got to it. Geoff Bennett: You call this story an exposed route on the beaten path of the story of baseball integration. What made you want to write about this era and these men? Howard Bryant: Really, embarrassment was the first. I have been such a baseball fan for so long and I have been reading about Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson. And how many times if you read baseball history that Jackie Robinson testified against Paul Robeson? And then I just kept reading, and I felt like the story was so relevant to today. And it's so important. These two giants, how could it be that you had -- at one point, Paul Robeson was the most famous Black man in the world and Jackie Robinson, the most important Black athlete in the second half of the 20th century. How did this happen? How did they find themselves in opposition? What were the forces that put them in this predicament? And, to me, it was just so representative of this question that African Americans are constantly having and we have to this day about belonging and about patriotism and about that twoness, that ability to, one, be patriotic and feel like you are part of this country while at the same time living in at that time a segregated society and all of the forces that sort of came to it. It's a really important moment that I just felt was completely underreported. Geoff Bennett: Building on your point about the parallels between that time and our -- this current moment, what lessons do you think this story has for us right now? Howard Bryant: I think the biggest lesson to me when I think about -- especially when I think about Paul Robeson, is the power of the times that you live in. The complacency that we have today is very, very similar to the complacency that people felt back then, that the country wouldn't go as far, that we still believed in our institutions, and the institutions would save us and that common sense would prevail. And you think about that, it sounds very similar to how we are today, that this is just the time and we will get through it. But the effect of the Cold War, the effect of McCarthyism on Paul Robeson's life, the United States did not allow him to leave the country. They refused to issue him a passport, which was unconstitutional, and yet it happened. There were all kinds of legal and extralegal things that took place there that really destroyed this man. And, on the other hand, when it came to Jackie Robinson, we talk about April 15, 1947 as the transformative moment that it was, but we also don't talk about what it did to Jackie Robinson as a person. And so what I wanted to do was sort of break from a little bit of the mythology and dig into the effects of what these pioneering men have -- what they went through in real time and the -- and, really, when I think about it, how -- what is past is prologue. So much of what is happening then is happening now. Geoff Bennett: The book is "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America" by journalist and author Howard Bryant. Howard, always great to speak with you. Thank you. Howard Bryant: Thank you again, Geoff.

Before former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday to discuss his recent arrest, he was probably told by his lawyer not to say anything that would get him in trouble, so that left much of the outrage-mongering about the actual incident to the eponymous host. According to Kimmel, Lemon was “arrested for committing journalism” and accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of lying and hypocrisy for saying the administration will not tolerate people who disrupt worship services, although his evidence was practically non-existent. Kimmel began by introducing Lemon, “Our first guest tonight is a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration. Joining us now to share all the incredible details, please welcome Don Lemon.”   Jimmy Kimmel introduces Don Lemon as "a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration." pic.twitter.com/yhtIC1tNNh — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   As Lemon sat down, Kimmel continued, “Thank you for being here. I—and I hope you're okay. I hope you're mentally okay after what happened to you. How are you?” Lemon answered, “I don't know” and “That's a really—that's an honest answer. I don't know. I mean, I'm okay. But I'm not going to let them steal my joy, but this is very serious. I mean, these are federal criminal charges.” One of the unintended side effects of Lemon’s arrest is that it forced Kimmel to actually talk about the St. Paul church invasion. Of course, Kimmel sided with the mob, however, sarcastically noting, “Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is, I think, just as Jesus would want, and I believe we have some B-roll. Protesters interrupted the Sunday service. And you followed them in.”   Kimmel also sarcastically laments, "Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is I think just as Jesus would want." For his part, Lemon kept insisting he's just a simple journalist, "Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't… pic.twitter.com/PFliz5C5Zt — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   He then wondered, “You interviewed various people in the church. And afterward, well, you were arrested. Now, first I want to ask you, is there a difference between whether those protesters had the right to go into a church and whether a credentialed journalist like yourself had the right to go in and cover them going into the church?” Kimmel also omitted how Lemon is alleged to have obstructed the exit and not to have left after the pastor asked him to. As for Kimmel’s question, Lemon repeated his standard talking point, “Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't say a lot. There's a lot that I cannot say. But what I will say is that I'm not a protester. I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening. I was following that one group around, and so that's what I did. I reported on them. But I do think that there is a difference between a protester and a journalist.” Later, Kimmel came back from a commercial with a clip of Bondi declaring, “Make no mistake, under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you.” Kimmel reacted by huffing, “That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump administration made it legal for ICE agents to enter houses of worship, schools, health care facilities. But they're saying that it's not okay for journalists to do the same thing. I think that's interesting.”   After a clip of Pam Bondi saying you don't have a right to violate someone else's right to "worship freely and safely," Kimmel huffs, "That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump… pic.twitter.com/3ObQCSRkbO — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 3, 2026   What is the lie? Kimmel never specified. Nor did he care to explain his weird logic that compares law enforcement actions to private citizens invading private property. He did, however, ask, “While you were in custody overnight—we're talking about being in a holding cell. What's going through your mind? What are you doing? How do you pass that time?” Lemon lamented, “Well, the entire time it happened, you know, I said I thought it might happen. And my attorney, you know, called them or reached out—emailed them, reached out, and never heard back… I just kept chronicling in my head what I was doing, what I was seeing, what was happening, every time I had to go—because it was a holding room—every time I needed to go to the restroom, I had to knock on the door. They had to come get me and then take me to the bathroom and stand there while I was using—while I was peeing.” As for the media as an industry, Lemon decried people who platform those "who come on just to lie," which is ironic given Kimmel's evidence-free assertion that Bondi is lying and personal history.   Having lied through his teeth about his role in the conspiracy to violate the Free Exercise rights of the parishioners of Cities Church, Don Lemon decries corporate media platforming people "who come on just to lie." pic.twitter.com/3hfv2X0xDD — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 3, 2026   If Kimmel insisted on interviewing Lemon, he should’ve asked about his refusal to leave when asked and about the allegations he hindered people’s ability to leave. Lemon probably would not have answered, but if Kimmel wants to be a newsman in addition to a comedian, that should’ve been the bare minimum. Here is a transcript for the February 2 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2/2/22026 11:57 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Our first guest tonight is a longtime TV and digital newsman who on Thursday night was arrested for committing journalism, which is a very serious crime under our current administration. Joining us now to share all the incredible details, please welcome Don Lemon. Thank you for being here. I—and I hope you're okay. I hope you're mentally okay after what happened to you. How are you? DON LEMON: I don't know. KIMMEL: You don't know? LEMON: That's a really — that's an honest answer. I don't know. I mean, I'm okay. But I'm not going to let them steal my joy, but this is very serious. I mean, these are federal criminal charges. KIMMEL: Yeah. And time in prison can change a man, even if it's just one night. LEMON: Yeah, well, not yet. Don't get ahead of yourself, Jimmy. … KIMMEL: Apparently there was a pastor at the church who was also a local ICE official, which is, I think, just as Jesus would want, and I believe we have some B-roll. Protesters interrupted the Sunday service. And you followed them in. You interviewed various people in the church. And afterward, well, you were arrested. Now, first I want to ask you, is there a difference between whether those protesters had the right to go into a church and whether a credentialed journalist like yourself had the right to go in and cover them going into the church? LEMON: Well, listen, obviously in the middle of this, I can't say a lot. There's a lot that I cannot say. But what I will say is that I'm not a protester. KIMMEL: Right. LEMON: I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle and document and record what was happening. I was following that one group around, and so that's what I did. I reported on them. But I do think that there is a difference between a protester and a journalist. … PAM BONDI: Make no mistake, under President Trump's leadership and this administration, you have the right to worship freely and safely. And if I haven't been clear already, if you violate that sacred right, we are coming after you. KIMMEL: We are back with Don Lemon. That is Pam Bondi, our attorney general, lying to us, using her freedom of speech to lie. And I think it's worth noting that last year the Trump administration made it legal for ICE agents to enter houses of worship, schools, health care facilities. But they're saying that it's not okay for journalists to do the same thing. I think that's interesting. LEMON: Yeah. KIMMEL: You — while you were in custody overnight — we're talking about being in a holding cell. What's going through your mind? What are you doing? How do you pass that time? LEMON: Well, the entire time it happened, you know, I said I thought it might happen. And my attorney, you know, called them or reached out — emailed them, reached out, and never heard back. But the entire time, I was thinking that I'm a journalist, and I just start thinking in my head, how many agents are there? Who am I riding in the truck with? Like, I wanted to keep mental notes of that. I couldn't — obviously I didn't have a phone or anything to write it down. So, that's what I was doing. People count their steps. I just kept chronicling in my head what I was doing, what I was seeing, what was happening, every time I had to go—because it was a holding room—every time I needed to go to the restroom, I had to knock on the door. They had to come get me and then take me to the bathroom and stand there while I was using—while I was peeing. ... LEMON: We don't need the people saying, “well careful what you're saying because we need access to the president and we don't want to lose this interview for the morning show.” You know what I'm saying? Or “We need to get our mergers and acquisitions done in Washington so don't piss off the president or he might sue us.” So, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing because I think there's a real need right now. This is an important time. This is not a time for folly. It's not a time for false equivalence and putting people on television and on news programs, giving them a platform who come on just to lie. I think people are sick of that. Some things—some things are objectively bad, Jimmy, and you don't have to—just because you say something critical of Donald Trump or Republicans doesn't mean that you have to go and say something. “Oh, well, you know the Democrats or Joe Biden—“ No. Some things are objectively bad, and I think it's important in this time to point that out.

USA Today did everything it could to make a Biden-era economic catastrophe out to be a Trumpian blooper. But as always with the lefty media, the devil’s in the details. USA Today Money and Personal Finance reporter Medora Lee came out with a pretty damning item February 1 headlined, “How pay raises turned into pay cuts, except for Americans in 9 states.” The immediate perception from the headline would have readers believing that this confirms the doom porn the media had been selling them on the Trump economy. Nope. Lee wrote, “Most Americans have felt the weight of inflation on their budgets over the last few years, but there are still a handful of places where Americans’ lives have improved financially, according to a study by MyPerfectResume.”  “The last few years” eh? Which years? “The online resume building site analyzed wage data in all 50 states against inflation to find where paychecks gained or lost value from 2020 to 2024.” Ah, so we’re mostly talking about the entire Biden presidency then! Not that Lee’s readers would know it, because she didn’t bother bringing his name up or conceding his outrageous spending policies that contributed to the inflation crisis that swallowed people’s wallets in the first place. Lee broke down the economic plight the average American was experiencing, despite many of Lee’s colleagues in fellow newspapers, news organizations and TV channels insisting Bidenomics was a stroke of genius: Bureau of Labor Statistics data show the average American worker’s pay rose 18% to $75,600 from about $64,000 during those years, but inflation soared about 21%. Despite every state in the country showing wage increases in dollars, the average Americans lost approximately 2.6% in income after adjusting pay increases for inflation. What’s even more telling is Lee’s reporting on the list of states where pay increases were protected against the inflation spikes: Idaho: +3.1% Florida: +2.6% Washington: +2.3% Montana: +2.3% Wyoming: +1.8% South Carolina: +1.5% North Carolina: +0.9% Tennessee: +0.9% Maine: +0.5% What do the majority of the aforementioned states have in common, except Washington? Six of them were run by Republican gubernatorial leadership during the 2020-2024 period. “Workers in every other state,” wrote Lee, “saw a drop in their purchasing power, but Americans in these five states faced the sharpest gap between rising wages and increasing costs.” All five of the states Lee mentioned are extreme leftist strongholds that were run by Democrat governors during the 2020-2024 period, with the exception of Maryland which saw Democrat governor Wes Moore (D) take leadership from Republican Larry Hogan (R) in January 2023: New Jersey: –7.0% Rhode Island: –6.9% Maryland: –5.4% Massachusetts: –5.3% New York: –5.3% Lee never mentioned the political makeup of any of the states she mentioned, perhaps it would make Biden and company — in addition to the cacophony of media hack voices selling the snake oil of their policies — look really bad. For example, CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS host Fareed Zakaria had the audacity to refer to Bidenomics as a “resounding success” in January 2025 and told Democrats to forget about the working-class Americans who were still kvetching over inflation spiking the cost of living. That same month, NBC Senior Business Correspondent and Bidenomics hawker Christine Romans went as far as to snoot that President Donald Trump was inheriting an economy in “solid shape.” But with the new data, Lee inadvertently let the cat out of the bag: Bidenomics was hot garbage, and the voters who panned it as such were right on target. However, during the first full year of the Trump administration, USA Facts reported that wages have outpaced inflation growth by 1.1 percent.  A welcome development for sure, but not that the media will give him any credit for it.