By: Cliff Kincaid
Since I recognize that Trump Derangement Syndrome occupies the heads of most of those in the “mainstream media,” I occasionally tune in to the business-oriented media for “news.” Big mistake. Some of the most notorious Trump-haters in the media hold positions in the so-called “business” media, especially the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Except for Joe Kernen, who interviewed President Trump at Davos, the daily “news” crew at CNBC is a pathetic lot. Most notorious is Steve Liesman, always issuing gloom-and-doom pronouncements on Trump policies.
On Thursday, the CNBC crew featured a clip of banker Jaime Dimon at Davos griping about the treatment by ICE of “a little old lady” in Minneapolis. Nobody mentioned that the self-professed “queer” woman had used a car to ram an ICE agent and put him in a hospital.
“I don’t like what I’m seeing, five grown men beating up a little old lady,” Dimon said. “So I think we should calm down a little bit on the internal anger about immigration.”
What about the anger over illegal aliens killing Americans?
The Trump Administration has “carried out over 650,000 arrests, detentions, and deportations of illegal aliens — including the worst of the worst criminal illegal alien killers, rapists, gang members, and repeat offenders.” It has deported more than 400,000 illegal aliens charged with or convicted of crimes.
Dimon doesn’t care. Instead, he makes up a story about a little old lady.
Meanwhile, Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorganChase, has “reached out” to Marxist/Muslim NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a “friendly” chat, after admitting that he is a Marxist (while ignoring the fact that Mamdani’s Muslim sympathies lie with the “Twelver” ideology of the Ayatollah running Iran.)
Dimon is a total ignoramus. Either he is a victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome, or he just doesn’t care about the facts.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Trump was threatening — and has now filed — a lawsuit against Jamie Dimon over his campaign to debank and politically persecute Trump and other conservatives.
Bloomberg News also has its share of idiots who want to curry favor with their boss, Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
One is David Rovella of Bloomberg, who claims, “The Republican-controlled Congress last summer pushed through a massive tax-and-spending bill sought by Trump that, largely through tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy, set the US on a path to $40 trillion national debt.” He conveniently ignores the prospect of increased federal revenues driven by economic growth, how Trump’s tariff policies were predicted to generate $2.5 trillion in new revenue, and how the tax cuts benefit the middle class.
Gross domestic product grew at a 4.4% annualized rate between July and September. This is the reality of Trump’s economy.
Meanwhile, Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal has referred to “Trump’s hemispheric imperialism” and just wrote a story on how, supposedly, Trump’s “threats to allies” had stirred “worry” that the U.S. has “lost its way globally.”
Using the term “imperialism” is an old Soviet charge against the U.S.
Has this foreign-born “journalist” ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine?
His X account is full of anti-Trump rants, and his story on President Trump’s appearance at Davos claimed he was “swinging a wrecking ball at the international order.”
That “international order” gave us Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Trump is trying to solve.
Trofimov describes himself as a foreign correspondent of The Wall Street Journal since 1999 and the newspaper’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent since 2018. He is also a fiction writer.
He wrote a book about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance. On November 5, 2024, he wrote that, “If Ukraine is defeated and occupied by Russia one day, many Ukrainians will blame the fickle and unreliable West for their tragedy.”
That’s not Trump’s fault. Blame Obama and Biden.
The media monitoring group called CAMERA notes that Trofimov has also distorted the situation in the Middle East by claiming that Israel “has maintained military occupation over Palestinian territories since 1967,” when that is false, and that sovereignty over the territory is disputed.
These people in the business media, including the Wall Street Journal, lie for a living and seem to think the pubic accepts their lies.
In regard to “wrecking” the global order, Trump came away from Davos with a Greenland deal brokered by NATO that may give the U.S. control of land around military bases.
By the way, the Eisenhower Administration considered a similar deal. I have posted the relevant documents on my website.
Meanwhile, advocates of the “international order” are fretting that Trump’s “Board of Peace” may supplant the United Nations.
Let us remember that Jack Smith was a United Nations-trained lawyer who worked for Barack Hussein Obama and was assigned by Biden’s Attorney General to jail Trump. He failed.
The U.N. is a failure, too.
There was a time when we had a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that held hearings into Communist infiltration of newspapers, radio, television, and other communications media.
We can only hope for a return to those days.
Instead, however, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Brendan Carr, has indicated that slanted and partisan media outlets will now be probed for violating federal law.
He declared, “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late-night & daytime talk shows qualify as ‘bona fide news ‘ programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes. Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”
You can read the FCC’s notice here. It provides guidance “on the application of the statutory equal opportunities requirement…”
Let us make sure this applies to the so-called “business” outlets, too.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org
