Trump is smashing the Fake News Media

Trump Is ‘Fundamentally Reshaping’ the Media Landscape to ‘Smash the Facade’ of Legacy Media

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s approach to confronting legacy media outlets has triggered widespread upheaval across the American news industry.

“When President Trump ran, particularly this most recent time, and every other time as well, he really ran directly at the legacy national news media,” Carr stated. “For so long, politicians just accepted the narrative that they were handed down, and they didn’t want to fight that narrative. They didn’t want to push back. They didn’t have their own sufficiently big soapbox to push back. They just took the narrative.”

Carr contended that Trump’s approach changed the dynamic between elected officials and major media organizations.

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“President Trump fundamentally disrupted that,” Carr remarked. “He set the terms of the debate. And so many politicians are used to the terms of the debate being dictated to them by legacy media.”

“And once President Trump did that, he really just smashed this facade that those gatekeepers get to control what we think and what we say,” Carr added.

Trump’s FCC Is Forcing Telecom Companies to Remove ‘Invidious Forms of DEI Discrimination’

Carr responded, “So as soon as I came in, we ended that.”

“Most people don’t realize that when I came in as chair of the FCC in January of 25, the FCC had promoting DEI listed as, I think, our number two or three highest strategic priority,” Carr explained. “We were spending millions and millions of dollars promoting DEI at the FCC, right? The FCC — we’re trying to, you know, make sure there’s more internet connectivity out there, but we were getting sidetracked by promoting DEI.”

“We’ve been going through the entities that we regulate and looking at ones that have been participating in this sort of invidious form of DEI discrimination. We’ve been pleased with the progress that we’re seeing. As you’ve noted, Verizon, AT&T, Charter, others have come forward, and they’ve agreed to end their promotion of those invidious forms of DEI discrimination, to focus on merit, and focus on serving their customers. I think that’s a good thing,” he concluded.

Average tax refund tops $3,700 midway through filing season

Taxpayers are seeing an average refund above $3,700 halfway through the filing season, and the Trump administration is pointing to its new tax breaks as a driver of higher take-home pay.

Treasury figures show the IRS has processed nearly 63.5 million returns so far, or about 45% of the total expected by April 15.

In the same update, more than 27.5 million filers claimed at least one of President Donald Trump’s new tax cuts using Schedule 1-A, a new IRS form for deductions tied to tips, overtime, certain car loan interest and an enhanced senior deduction.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed to the mid-season data as evidence the tax cuts are delivering relief.

“Treasury and the IRS have worked tirelessly to ensure that relief was delivered efficiently, securely, and on time,” Bessent said.

“This filing season reflects our commitment to making the tax system work for working families. Because of the landmark legislation signed into law by President Trump, millions of Americans are keeping more of what they earn and seeing their paychecks go further than ever before,” he added.

Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with Iran’s choice of new supreme leader

President Donald Trump said he is “not happy” with Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader but that early results from Operation Epic Fury have been “way beyond expectation.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been installed as the next supreme leader.

“I don’t believe he can live in peace,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.

"When we attacked them first, we knocked out 50% of their missiles and if we didn't, it would have been a much harder fight," Trump said.

“No other President had the guts to do it... I don’t want some president who hasn’t got the courage in five years or in ten years to go in. It’s like a gun slinger, where he draws his gun first,” Trump told Yingst.

“If we waited three days, I believe we would have been attacked,” he added.

Trump described what he called a surprise element in the timing of the operation.

“Breakfast attacks are unusual, and they were misled because they thought we weren’t going at that time and all that... And they just met. It was very, very surprising. And they all met together, and it was open,” he said.

“If they would’ve had a bomb, they’d have used it on Israel and other parts of the Middle East, Trump said. “I think, and probably us, if they could get it there, but it would have been tough.”

Trump said U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told him Iran claimed it had enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs.

“I said, you know, they’re not playing this smart. Because they’re basically saying that I have to attack them. They should have just said, ‘We’re not going to build a nuclear missile’,” Trump said.