2024 was Donald Trump’s year.
2025 is shaping up to be a big one as well.
And Donald Trump heard one prediction that had him grinning from ear to ear.
Donald Trump defeats the fake news media
Donald Trump didn’t beat just Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party on November 5.
Trump also beat the left-wing media as well.
Radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump about the $16 million ABC paid to settle a defamation suit Trump filed after anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely stated that a jury in New York found Trump liable for rape.
Trump put the ABC settlement in the context of how he won the election with pro-Democrat outlets hammering him with negative coverage and Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Google censoring conservatives.
“I do. I think they’re disrespected. I think they’re not taken so seriously. Look at me. They were totally opposed to me for four years, but many years before that. But let’s say from the time I started campaigning three years ago, three and a half years ago, because I sort of started maybe when I got out. But they were opposed to me at levels never seen before where Biden would get good stories, and the guy couldn’t walk down a hallway. And I did something great, and they try to make it as bad as possible,” Trump stated.
Trump acknowledged he had some backing in the media ecosystem, but Trump overcame odds that no candidate had before.
“So every, almost every one of them, I mean, we had some support, but for the most part, every one of them. And I won. It’s almost impossible. You know, I was told you need Google, you need Facebook, you cannot win without them. You cannot win without the Times, without the Washington Post, you know the various…and how about ABC and CBS and NBC and CNN. And you know, Fox gives me a little trouble, too, even, I must say,” Trump added.
Trump told Hewitt his win was a statement on how little influence the media holds in today’s society thanks to alternatives like X and podcasts.
“And then you have MSNBC. I was opposed at levels never seen before, and I won in a landslide. Well, what does that tell you about the media?” Trump asked.
Hewitt then noted that CNN’s primetime ratings were down 47 percent since the election.
MSNBC’s primetime ratings plunged over 50 percent.
Hewitt predicted legacy media would “bleed out” during Trump’s second term and cease to exist.
Trump told Hewitt that he wanted the media to exist in some form.
“Well, I hope we do. I hope they do last. I hope they turn it around. All we want is a fair, I think it’s important to have a fair media, actually. I don’t want them to, you know, when you say bleeding out, that’s a tough expression,” Trump replied.
Hewitt replied that the press was stacked with Trump-hating leftists and had no hope of reforming itself.
“But Mr. President, they’re, they can’t reform themselves. They’re full of left-wing Trump haters. How are they going to change?” Hewitt responded.
Trump admitted that was the case and proposed that these media outlets going out of business and coming back in a new form was probably the way forward.
“Yeah, well, they go out of business, and they come back in a different form, is probably the way,” Trump stated.
Trump may be ahead of the curve.
Comcast spun off MSNBC into a separate company from NBC News, and it may end up getting sold.
Elon Musk mused about buying MSNBC, which would almost surely end its run as a left-wing cable network.
A similar fate likely awaits CNN.
The era of openly left-wing media may be coming to a close because, as Trump and Hewitt pointed out, it’s bad for business.
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