Major Networks Attack Trump with 92% Negative Coverage in His First 100 Days

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As Donald Trump enters the first 100 days of his presidency, we learn that the major legacy network television news outlets have given him remarkable levels of bad coverage.

Even worse than what they delivered at this same period in his presidency in his first term.

The Media Research Center reports, "So far this year, the new Trump administration has faced a withering 92% negative coverage from ABC, CBS and NBC, whose flagship news programs averaged more than 19.3 million viewers during the first quarter of 2025, making them the most widely-watched news programs in the country."

Looking at these three networks from January 20 through April 9 found that four years ago in the same time period for Joe Biden's presidency, the Democrat received 59 percent positive coverage.

A stark difference from how Trump has been covered.

Yet... they covered Trump far more than they did Biden.

MRC notes, "Yet despite the overwhelming negativity of their coverage, the networks found Trump irresistible as a news subject, at least compared with Biden. From January 20 through April 9, 2017, the networks saturated their newscasts with 1,900 minutes of Trump news; during the same time period this year, we tallied a massive 1,716 minutes of coverage. But in 2021, evening news viewers saw only 726 minutes of Biden coverage during these same weeks, less than half of the airtime devoted to either of the new Trump administrations."

A corpse president probably wasn't as interesting.

How about major successes by the Trump administration? Policies of his that are actually popular?

Like reducing illegal immigration?

That coverage was about as slanted as you could imagine.

"Even on immigration, the issue where the public gives the President his highest ratings, the networks’ spin was 93% negative. Out of nearly four hours (233 minutes) of evening news airtime devoted to immigration, these newscasts spent just 3.5 minutes letting viewers know just how much Trump has reduced border crossings," the report observed.

Key members of Team Trump were given the same biased treatment.

MRC reported, "Besides Trump himself, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced 89% negative press, DOGE’s Elon Musk was hit with 96% negative coverage, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth received a unanimous 100% bad press from the networks."

For Musk, 96 percent negative. For Hegseth, 100 percent bad press. By no metric can these people even pretend to be actual journalists.

Expect major establishment media bias against Donald Trump to continue.

These "reporters" are just naked partisans - the comms team for the Democratic party - who simply don't know how to behave any other way.