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Trump’s First 100 Days: A Study In ‘Fake News,’ Hoaxes, And Misleading Headlines

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Apr 28, 2025 - 14:28
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Trump’s First 100 Days: A Study In ‘Fake News,’ Hoaxes, And Misleading Headlines

President Donald Trump is no stranger to antagonistic media figures, often calling them out directly or through members of his administration.

As he reaches the 100th day of his second administration, here is a look back at some of the hoaxes, misleading headlines, and “fake news” stories that have circulated since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The Trump Rapid Response team kicked off the administration’s second week with a list of several hoaxes that had already taken root across multiple platforms and outlets.

The first one involved regular Trump-bashers Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who claimed, along with several media outlets, that President Trump was going to gut Medicaid and other assistance programs under the guise of cutting wasteful and fraudulent spending.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, however, Trump’s plan to cut waste, fraud, and abuse from government spending would not touch programs that provide “direct benefits to Americans” such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP, among others.

The second was a claim perpetuated by Chicago Public Schools and Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had raided an elementary school. Even the Chicago Tribune ran a story on the alleged “raid” without first verifying the veracity of the claim.

The so-called “raid” turned out to be a Secret Service investigation into a potential threat that had nothing to do with immigration.

The third was an attempt to undermine the still pending confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and alleged that a “physicians advocacy group” had come out in opposition to the nomination.

That advocacy group turned out to be an astroturfed organization backed by left-wing activist and billionaire Bill Gates.

By the time Kennedy’s first hearing on Capitol Hill came around, media outlets were prepared — they even sent reporters to cover the hearing with their negative headlines prewritten before the questions started to fly.

Trump took a HuffPost reporter to task on Air Force One over claims that his administration would ignore Supreme Court rulings they did not like: “I don’t know even what you’re talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with?”

“HuffPost, Sir,” was the reply.

“No wonder. I thought they died.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar claimed — with no resistance from CNN anchor Dana Bash — that the Trump administration was putting a stop to Head Start and terminating cancer research.

Trump took aim at ABC News during the swearing-in ceremony for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, asking first, “Who do you work for?”

“ABC News.”

“No wonder,” Trump shot back. “I have, today, the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had … They like the job I’m doing… We’re finding billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.”

In late February, Reuters ran with a story claiming that Trump’s foreign aid freeze had stopped the progress of a United Nations program that was intended to help stop the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs from crossing the southern border.

Trump’s team said otherwise: “Fake News: The State Department is actually trying to expand the initiative. Stop lying.”

CNN attempted to “fact check” a claim from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that under former President Joe Biden, $8 million had been dumped into a study that attempted to make mice transgender. Trump’s team responded with receipts.

The Fake News losers at CNN tried to fact check President Trump saying Biden spent $8 million on “making mice transgender,” but President Trump was right (as usual).

FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled outmillions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice.

$455,000: “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”

$2,500,000: “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration” — “These mice manifest defects in ovarian architecture and have altered folliculogenesis.”

$299,940: “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes” — “We will compare the incidences and tumor specific survival in female mice (intact) and oophorectomized female mice receiving TT with their respective counterparts that do not receive TT.”

$735,113: “Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone therapy in mice”

$1,200,000: “Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis” — “Aim 2 utilizes transgenic mice to test whether male-level androgens acting via AR specifically in kisspeptin neurons are necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH pulse parameters, including pulse frequency, and the estrogen-induced LH surge.”

$3,100,000: “Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma” — “We will study the contributions of estrogens to HDM-induced asthma outcomes using male and female gonadectomized mice treated with estradiol…”

TOTAL: $8,290,053

CNN was forced to “update” the story.

After multiple outlets published stories on a knock-down-drag-out fight between Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump shut down an NBC reporter who asked about it. “No clash. I was there,” Trump said. “You’re just a troublemaker.”

Bloomberg ran a story on Musk, claiming that he planned to “target” programs like Social Security and Medicare for massive spending cuts.

The Trump administration pushed back, noting that Musk was specifically seeking out fraud, waste, and abuse within those programs just as he was across other areas of the federal government.

Then all hell broke loose over a Signal chat where key members of the administration discussed retaliatory attacks on Houthi terrorists — a chat in which Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic was inadvertently included. Trump was pressured by Democrats and media to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — from whose phone Goldberg was added — but he shot that idea down: “I don’t fire people over fake news and witch hunts.”

An internal investigation revealed that an iPhone algorithm was likely the reason Goldberg was accidentally added to the chat — and all parties involved stated that while the attacks were discussed in some detail, no sensitive or classified information was disclosed.

Democrats and media outlets then took up the cause of deported Salvadoran citizen and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, often referring to him simply as a “Maryland man.” Border Czar Tom Homan set the record straight on that case.

Then reports of a second Signal chat group — which allegedly included Hegseth’s wife, brother, and attorney – began to circulate. Despite the fact that none of the reports included any evidence that Hegseth had discussed sensitive information in that chat group — which he accessed through his private phone — NPR still ran a story claiming that it was all too much and Trump was actively looking for someone to replace Hegseth.

The White House nixed that report in short order: WRONG. Fake News!”

Following his highly-publicized Easter-weekend visit to Rome, Vice President JD Vance was attacked for breaking “the rules” and taking a photo in the Sistine Chapel. Even though The Daily Beast included the fact that he had permission to do so in an article about him, the outlet still ran with a headline that read, “JD Vance Ripped For Embarrassing Gaffe During Vatican Visit.”

“These Fake News losers buried this in the 14th paragraph,” the Trump team shot back, referencing the outlet’s admission that he’d been permitted to take the photo.

Rubio addressed the latest misleading story during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where host Kristen Welker claimed — as did her counterparts on other networks – that the Trump administration had deported three minor children, aged two, four, and seven, who were American citizens.

“Three U.S. citizens ages four, seven, and two, were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers!” Rubio explained.

Here’s to the next 100 days!

Published at The Daily Wire
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