White House Publishes List Of Grievances Trashing ‘PBS, NPR Grift’ That Has ‘Ripped Us Off’

The White House released a report on Monday, delivering a detailed laundry list of grievances with National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and making the case for stripping the two networks of any and all taxpayer funding.

“For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news,'” the report stated — and followed that with a list of examples of such “woke propaganda.”

For years, Americans have been on the hook for subsidizing NPR and PBS as they spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.”

As @POTUS has said, funding their biased content is a waste.

???? Here are some examples of the trash that passes for “news” at NPR and PBS: pic.twitter.com/7xlZOKGay1

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 14, 2025

The list only went back a little over a decade to a 2015 segment on NPR which featured the “population of anthropomorphic animal enthusiasts known as ‘furries.'”

The list also highlighted two 2017 entries from PBS — a panel discussion on “white privilege” and what it “mean(s) to be woke” and a movie called “Real Boy” that followed the story of a trans-identifying teenager who “navigates adolescence and sobriety” among other challenges.

In 2017, PBS produced an entire movie celebrating a transgender teenager’s so-called “changing gender identity.” pic.twitter.com/RScnFANHmB

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 14, 2025

That same year, NPR ran a story titled “Cannibalism: It’s ‘Perfectly Natural.'”

Other entries included a 2020 NPR segment addressing the “racial origins of fat phobia,” a 2021 claim from NPR that “animals deserve pronouns, too,” a 2022 NPR feature titled “What ‘Queer Ducks’ can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom,” a 2022 dig into a “whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts,” and a 2024 Valentine’s Day special dedicated to “non-binary deer” and other “queer” members of the animal kingdom.

The complaints about PBS followed a similar pattern, and included a one-sided 2020 “Sesame Street” town hall with CNN on racism amid the George Floyd riots, a 2021 children’s special featuring a drag queen named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess,” and a 2024 documentary “making the case for reparations.”

The White House report also laid out evidence that neither NPR nor PBS showed any tolerance for viewpoints that didn’t align with the political Left — from NPR’s intentional suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story to the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, among other things. A study conducted by the Media Research Center during the 20214 presidential election revealed that PBS’ coverage of the Democratic National Convention was 88% positive — and the coverage of the Republican National Convention was 72% negative.