NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon is another figure who’s going to get banned on CNN because she doesn’t play by the Left’s rules, and she expertly eviscerates the media narratives about the Trump presidency. The kicker is, and it’s not a shocking new revelation, but she’s a MAGA leftist.
She’s admitted that most of her talking points might sound conservative, but she doesn’t identify with that camp. At heart, she’s for freedom and the working people, and she made that point clear when CNN host Abby Phillip tried to criticize Trump’s demeanor at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Sargon wasn’t having any of that nonsense:
Abby Phillip was doing her nightly ritual on CNN of melting down over something President Trump said, but this time Batya Ungar-Sargon was there to put her in her place.
— Overton (@overton_news) January 22, 2026
Phillip spiraled over Trump’s Davos remarks about Canada, and @bungarsargon cut through the noise with the… pic.twitter.com/x7ZsDty2ST
PHILLIP: But Trump’s response was they should be grateful to the U.S., Canada lives because of the United States. Why are we picking a fight with Canada?
UNGAR SARGON: The problem is, is that all of these people need us more than we need them, and they have taken advantage of us while we have been the ones subsidizing them.
And what the president is saying and what the entire Trump administration went to Davos to say, is that this world order in which you globalize everything, you ship good jobs overseas to China, you import millions of people to undercut workers here is over
We’re done being your patsies.
We’re done being in a situation where NATO needs us more than we need them, and yet somehow they are dictating the terms of the relationship.
That is over.
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BONUS: She appeared on Bill Maher's Real Time, where she explained her MAGA leftism.
Batya Ungar Sargon's defiant retort to Bill Maher's question asking if she regrets supporting Trump:
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 15, 2025
Maher: "I'm just wondering what you think now: You must have a feeling in your gut:
This is going badly, I shouldn't have thrown in my lot with this team."
BUS: "I feel the… pic.twitter.com/kKoaanvkyi
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