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Politifact Declares a Trump Prediction Pre-Emptively FALSE

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Aug 11, 2025
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Borderline Obsessive – NEW YORK TIMES

  • They make it sound as if this is an unjustified detention. Again.

The Times arrives with this framing of an illegal immigrant sent off to El Salvador as if it were a case of an innocent man disappeared for no reason. It involves a member of the Tren de Aragua gang, and he was arrested while heavily armed on school property. But we are supposed to be weepy over this development and become angered over the administration’s tough stance on illegals.

Low Octane Gaslighting – CNN

  • Well, they do not like the location where Obama was moved, so it is declared “hidden.”

CNN comes out with a chilling episode about President Trump redecorating the White House. He has moved several presidential portraits from their usual locations, and since one of those was the image of Barack Obama, it is considered offensive. The outlet stated the portrait was moved to “a hidden stairwell,” as if this is some grievous act of intolerance.

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In truth, it is hanging in the White House Grand Stairwell, on the approach to the official residence. In other words, it is hardly hung next to a janitor’s lavatory down in the basement.

Body Checking The Fact Checkers – POLITIFACT

  • He has not been right yet, so he must be…wrong??

It is rather interesting (revealing) how decades of climate predictions can be shown to be wildly incorrect and yet never receive a FALSE rating from the likes of Politifact. Yet, President Trump is given an inaccurate assessment based on an inconclusive result in the future.

This one is concerning the border and how it is thought that we as a nation may experience net negative migration this year. CNN has reported on this as a reality, and a number of border organizations attest that we have seen sharp drops in arrivals and could see a negative figure by year’s end. The piece even shows the speculative nature of things – “Trump’s claims of negative net migration are premature. Some analysts say it could happen.”

And still, as it is said that “it is too soon to tell”, they can still tell us this is “Mostly False”.

Democratic Custodial Services – POLITICO

  • This typifies the “It’s (D)ifferent” measurement in the best of fashions.

It has long been a joke that the press covers the practice of redistricting by Democrats as a savvy political gambit anytime it is employed, and when the GOP follows suit, it is a hateful and racist practice meant to violate voting rights.

What makes Politico's lapsing into this tired punchline so hilariously pathetic now is that they do so WHILE all of the focus has been on the discrepancy of the coverage of the two parties.

DNC PR Firm – Associated Press

  • We are very curious how you type these stories out while clutching pom-poms.

It’s a tale of two town halls. The AP was sure to highlight when Rep. Mike Greer of Nebraska endured a lengthy bout of very loud and intemperate Democrats who were brought in to disrupt his town hall event in a designed fashion. The coverage could not be more obviously gleeful in Arizona, where Senator Ruben Gallego was spouting off about President Trump, and his speech elicited cheers from the gathered throng. 

The real tell of their favoritism was in reporting how the speech saw Gallego being on the “offensive,” how he “assailed” the recent tax bill, and promised that President Trump was going to make the country “poorer and sicker.”

It then went on to describe this as being “Gallego’s upbeat event.”

Newseum Art Installation – REUTERS

  • They must have been safe, figuring no one would notice.

It says a lot that the United Nations would admit that few pay attention to what they say. It says more about their incompetence that they would declare no one reads their reports, which are based on a report they conducted, and issue a report on how few read their reports.

Anti-Social Media – CNN

  • Lowering yourselves to condemn this was just magnificent.

There has been a rash of incidents of select spectators tossing sex toys onto the court during recent WNBA games. You get the sense that CNN felt required to get on the reporting and condemn such outlandishly intolerant behavior, but reducing yourselves to reporting on the matter would almost inevitably lead to this.

And thus, CNN was on the air discussing dildos.