The media has exhibited an amazing, if unsurprising, reaction throughout President Trump’s first 200 days in office. We knew that there would be opposition to him during his second term in the White House, but what has been the surprise is the press industry’s inability to grasp that they are consistently taking the side of adverse conditions in this country and its citizens.
I have discussed it before on my podcast that news outlets just come out swinging, absent any analysis. Yes, the rote criticism of Trump policies and actions was expected, but the knee-jerk opposition to him precludes the facts, and just as often does not even involve factual details.
Look at the list of just some of the positions we have seen the media take since January: They favor wasteful government spending, oppose tax cuts, decry inflation coming down, condemn enforcing our laws, support Hamas terrorists, lobby for keeping gang members and violent criminals in the country, complain that government documents are being made public, and insist on males being present in female sports. In this past week alone, the media have been against ending the Ukraine-Russia war and fighting crime in Washington, D.C.
What the media – and by extension, the Democrats – have refused to reconcile is that these perpetual stances on the losing side of issues are taking a toll. The Democrats have been foundering for some time, seeing their approval sinking to new depths, and the media are faring no better. Trust in the press is in the basement, and now we have firm evidence that their efforts against Trump are working in his favor.
Breitbart has come out with statistics that reveal how the Department of Homeland Security is winning the messaging war over the press. Consider, briefly, the constant drumbeat of negativity we have been served on the deportation raids, Tom Homan, ICE agents, as well as Kristi Noem and the DHS agency. The press has said from the very start of the anti-illegal immigrant focus that this is wrong and venal behavior. Well… the general public seems okay with the operations, as the public engagement with DHS has grown by a factor of 15 over the past six months.
Engagement figures shared exclusively with Breitbart News show rapid growth in DHS’s social media since Trump took office in late January. According to the figures, DHS’s social media has grown from 3.5 million weekly impressions in February to 46.1 million in July of this year. Agency officials told Breitbart News the growth is proof that a direct-to-Americans strategy, as the president has long done, is the most effective way to engage with the public.
This leads to a pair of conclusions. This is a sign of the general public declaring this was what they had voted for last November, and that the media messaging machine is continuing to deliver neutered results. The press coverage of these immigration arrests has been so constant and filled with misinformation that in my Townhall media column, I had to create a new category to catalog the instances.
The efforts to shield illegals have become commonplace. We have been served up coverage of a “Maryland Man” arrested, who was a gang member with human trafficking and domestic abuse on his rap sheet. There was the “Wisconsin driver” who killed two teens when she was drunk, while sporting prior DUIs on her record. An “Alabama social worker” was revealed to have been driving aggressively while in the country illegally.
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It has become commonplace for DHS to follow up on these errant, deflecting news reports with the full story of why individuals were picked up and detained. It completely exposes the media scam that they feel the need to omit or cloud over the specifics that lead to these people being arrested. Then, also seen frequently, are the abject lies told in the press, which DHS has shown to be adept at countering.
DHS press release, which calls the story “journalistic malpractice:https://t.co/Z88d3jiT9D
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 22, 2025
These social media traffic numbers show that the general public is catching on. It has become the norm when faced with these news items to sit back and wait for the FULL story to be told. Now we see that people are simply bypassing the press and going directly to the source.
The media has been doing this to themselves, and they only have themselves to blame. As the press continues to operate with a slanted bias regarding these items, the public will eventually refuse to accept their reporting at face value.
Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.
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