"Trump to NPR and PBS: Drop Dead, You Smug Subsidized Snobs"
Gather ‘round, ye weary taxpayers, and behold the latest dispatch from the gilded swamp of Washington, D.C., where President Donald J. Trump, that orange-hued agent of chaos, has set his sights on the twin sacred cows of liberal sanctimony: NPR and PBS. On March 25, from the White House’s Cabinet Room—where the furniture’s probably still sticky from years of spilled Kool-Aid—Trump told a gaggle of reporters he’d “love to” yank the federal teat from these bastions of earnestness. “I think it’s very unfair,” he said, in that inimitable way that suggests he’s either a genius or just saw a shiny object. “It’s been very biased. The whole group.”
Now, let’s pause to savor this. NPR and PBS, those taxpayer-funded cathedrals of cardigan-clad virtue, have long been the audio-visual comfort food for people who think “diversity” means owning both a Prius and a Subaru. They’re the outlets that gave us Sesame Street—which, fine, taught me to count to ten while a puppet ate cookies—and All Things Considered, where every story sounds like it’s narrated by a therapist on quaaludes. But Trump’s not wrong to smell a rat. These outfits get a cool $500 million a year shoveled their way via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a sum that could buy every American a decent burger instead of another Ken Burns documentary about the history of lint.
“They spend more money than any other network of its type ever conceived, and it’s a very biased view.” He’s got a point—NPR’s newsroom once boasted 87 registered Democrats to zero Republicans, a ratio that makes the Politburo look like a balanced debate club. And PBS? They’ve been so busy closing DEI offices (thanks to Trump’s executive orders) they forgot to air anything that doesn’t come with a side of sanctimonious guilt. Meanwhile, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s gearing up to grill their CEOs on Capitol Hill, demanding to know why taxpayers should fund “one-sided reporting” that “attacks over half the country.” Good question, MTG—why are we bankrolling a propaganda mill for people who think “flyover country” is a leper colony?
Of course, the NPR-PBS crowd will wail that defunding them kills Big Bird and cripples rural stations. Boo-hoo. Last I checked, Elmo’s got enough merchandising cash to buy Montana, and if rural America needs news, they’ve got X—where the takes are free and twice as spicy. Trump’s right: with “plenty of coverage” from a zillion other outlets, why are we still writing checks for this twee tyranny? Let ‘em survive on tote-bag sales and guilt-tripped donations like the rest of us. As for me, I’m with the Donald—defund it, and pass the popcorn. It’s about time the swamp drained something besides my wallet.
7:05 AM - INTERVIEW - HANS VON SPAKOVSKY - Senior Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation
7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - CURTIS LEGEYT - (lay-get) - president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters
UPDATE ON SIGNAL-GATE
Greg Price on X: "CIA DIRECTOR RATCLIFFE: "One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer... One of the things that I was briefed on very early was the use of Signal as a permissible work use." https://t.co/oRBfXAzrgR" / X
Tony Kinnett on X: "@sowinski_brad Given Gabbard's statement on what she considered "classified" from the Signal chat, I'd say yes. https://t.co/lT6CgviEjX" / X
Tony Kinnett on X: "Oh gee wow it's Jeffrey Goldberg already walking back his "war plans" description. Now it sounds more like a check-in of which Houthis were about to receive ordinance and with what weapons systems...And a weather update. Two hours early. https://t.co/UtqTmk7Yt0" / X
KanekoaTheGreat on X: "🚨BREAKING: Jeffrey Goldberg, who lied America into the Iraq War and fabricated the "suckers and losers" hoax, is asked why doesn't he publish more of the Signal chat showing classified information? "No, because they're wrong. *Sigh* ..." https://t.co/piczOw8IqC https://t.co/teFPO3kjHu" / X
Byron York on X: "New: What we know about the Signal mess. It's coming down to two questions: 1) How did the virulently anti-Trump journalist Jeffrey Goldberg end up on the text? and 2) Was classified information involved? So far, the answers don't quite add up. https://t.co/wOnAjUPOgW" / X
JASMINE CROCKETT SAGA
NRCC on X: "House Dems' top spox Jasmine Crockett applauded after attacking Texas Governor Abbott for using a wheelchair: "Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there!" Recent polling shows Crazy Crockett as one of the leaders of the Democrat Party. This is who they are. https://t.co/eIDlJqSoEU" / X
Stephen L. Miller on X: "She did this at a Human Rights Campaign dinner while they laughed and cheered." / X
Meredith Dake-O'Connor on X: "I think the bigger story is that the HRC hasn't said anything. In fact, they promoted a post saying Crockett "brought the fire we need in this fight" https://t.co/WMbJRL0k3g" / X
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on X: "I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable. Literally, the next line I said was that" / X
Peter J. Hasson on X: "NEW: Jasmine Crockett ‘Liked’ Posts Calling Abbott ‘Hot Wheels’ in 2021, Undercutting Her Explanation for Deriding Wheelchair-Bound Governor https://t.co/24b3u0qul2" / X
KanekoaTheGreat on X: "🚨BREAKING: Trump prosecutors Nathan Wade and Fani Willis spotted together at LAX despite claiming their relationship ended two years ago. https://t.co/RL8kWDWYrn" / X
New York Post on X: "Ex-Biden WH staffer rips former president’s team for approving quotes and scripting questions: ‘It was really unethical’ https://t.co/BeJRRauEjp https://t.co/75eBfAcmBy" / X
TRUMP READY TO DEFUND NPR
Rapid Response 47 on X: "REPORTER: Would you be interested in defunding and taking away taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS? @POTUS: "I would love to do that. I think it's very unfair, it's been very biased — the whole group... the kind of money that's being wasted, and it's a very biased view." https://t.co/hegd05Zxr8" / X
MOLLIE ON THE HILL
The Federalist on X: "Watch Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway's full opening remarks before the U.S. Senate on the censorship-industrial complex. https://t.co/PYZ49DkaxJ" / X
The Federalist on X: "Hemingway: "If you're speaking against the orthodoxies of the age, which are frequently false, you're going to be targeted by the censorship complex." https://t.co/Y8HbUzuX2H" / X
Jordan Boyd on X: ""We will never stop. The more they try to shut us down, the harder we're going to work to stay open, because it's not about us – it's about whether we will have a civilization where people are allowed to say and think things tyrants don't want us to." -@MZHemingway @FDRLST https://t.co/7FCYtienE7" / X
(2) Mike Lee on X: "Online censorship wasn’t just Big Tech. It wasn’t just the government. It was private entities working hand in glove with the government and NGOs, using your tax dollars, to silence Americans. https://t.co/jlqynwUFIv" / X
TURLEY TOO: (1) Mike Lee on X: "Professor @JonathanTurley: “We’ve had anti-free speech movements in our history. We’ve never seen anything like this one.” https://t.co/aJEfyCTOm2" / X
JOHNSON THREATENS COURTS
Wall Street Apes on X: "THIS IS THE WAY “Speaker Mike Johnson issuing an open threat now saying that Congress has authority to stop providing funding to federal courts.” “We do have authority over the federal courts. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power funding over the courts and https://t.co/v31AvDAdcL" / X
Michael Walsh on X: "I've been shouting about this for years. "Far from being a “co-equal” branch of government, almost the entirety of the federal court system is a creature of Congress, and can be restructured or abolished at any time. Don’t believe me? Take a look at Article III. 'The judicial" / X
NIH/FDA CONFIRMATIONS
Greg Price on X: "How it started: Disgraced NIH Director Francis Collins demands a "devastating takedown" of @DrJBhattacharya's Great Barrington Declaration that called for covid lockdowns to end. How it's going: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is officially on his way to his old office. https://t.co/UlcbGG6P4W" / X
Mark Hemingway on X: "Bhattacharya is eminently qualified for this position, and is one of a precious few public health experts that emerged from COVID with more credibility than he started with. And yet, not a single senate Democrat voted for him. They will never admit they were wrong about COVID." / X
MD DEMS SHUT DOWN DEBATE
No Moore on X: "In Annapolis, the @mddems don’t want debate—they want silence. The moment anyone pushes back, they shut it down with parliamentary tricks. https://t.co/fnaT0ZRCVb" / X
Riley Gaines on X: "World Athletics has announced they will verify sex via cheek swabs at the elite level. Good! Cheek swabs are: - non-invasive - cheap - effective - necessary for ensuring fairness for female athletes @NCAA should follow suit https://t.co/ivbgEfdJYq" / X
Steve Krakauer on X: "So excited to launch MK Media with @MegynKelly, and expand our content umbrella with new talent and verticals. Glad to have @MarkHalperin, @DM_Maureen_ Callahan, and @itslinklauren host our first three shows, launching in April and May. And more to come: https://t.co/pFuuFfaMvN" / X
Glenn Youngkin on X: "Fairfax County has more people moving away than moving in while the rest of Virginia has successfully reversed a decade of net outmigration. Parents Matter, and Fairfax continues to ignores them, thrusting radical ideology on parents and students while piling on high taxes and" / X
VIDEO Elon Musk on X: "https://t.co/FNVjvRh2lP" / X
AUDIO: Josh Hawley–Mark Zuckerberg gave half a BILLION DOLLARS to Democrats to steal the 2020 election. He insulted Trump. Censored conservatives. BREAK UP FACEBOOK!
https://x.com/cernovich/status/1904676551574102224?s=46&t=gRROFjbymmJxptiuuAQr6Q
AUDIO: Great exchange with Sen Mike Lee and Mollie Hemingway about the hundreds of millions of dollars Mark Zuckerberg spent interfering in the 2020 election
https://x.com/sayssimonson/status/1904633776489267202?s=46&t=gRROFjbymmJxptiuuAQr6Q
Trump administration declares TSA screener union contract void
https://x.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1904606482441642319?s=46&t=gRROFjbymmJxptiuuAQr6Q
MORE ON TSA–Jeffrey Tucker: “I on could not understand why TSA employees seem so newly nice, happy, and sharp looking. Finally I just asked. Their union was summarily abolished about three weeks ago. Now they have to respond to management and customers, and can be fired! The employees with whom I spoke are SO RELIEVED to see the bad actors purged, leaving only people who like the work and like people and work well with others. They are apparently HATED their stupid union. I said to them: welcome to the club of people who have to work for a living and they laughed.”
https://x.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1904606482441642319
Maxine Waters floats deporting Melania Trump in anti-DOGE diatribe
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1904752852154613981
BREAKING: Palestinians in Gaza chant: “Release the Israeli hostages! Stop the war! We want to live! Reject the rule of Hamas!”
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1904807879426609192
No Dems voted for Bhattacharya–The Senate confirmed Jay Bhattacharya to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health on a 53-47 party-line vote.
https://x.com/abettel/status/1904667566896709776
Like every broken clock that hits the right time at least twice a day, he was bound to utter something that made sense. My friends "who only listened to PBS" said it like they were receiving communion, when they listened to it. I don't think the government should fund anything except live coverage of government in session with no commentary or moderator attached. The truth shalom set you free
Well written humorous. Love it