This is exactly what War Secretary Pete Hegseth was talking about this morning.
Here we have former MSNBC host Chuck Todd spewing propaganda about Trump not being properly informed about the war in Iran or something:
Anyone else fear that the Commander in Chief isn’t getting the full picture of the war’s impact out of fear by those around him of telling him something he doesn’t want to hear?
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) March 13, 2026
Erick Erickson responded to this nonsense and it’s awesome:
My personal belief is that the President, his team, and the Israelis know far better than the press what is going on, and the press is so relentlessly, ruthlessly hostile to the Trump Administration that they’re more likely to believe Iranian propaganda than that this is actually going well.
As I noted yesterday, the ordinance dropped is on pace to mirror Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom with a combined strike of about 1000 targets a day from the Israelis and Americans. That’s pretty consistent.
The fact that the national press is barely even covering Homeland Security being shut down by Democrats in a time of war is just another data point.
If Obama were bombing Syria while the GOP had Homeland Security shut down, the GOP obstruction would be the primary story every day in the press.
But because it is Trump, the press is elevating the doubters, the haters, and the propagandists.
The press has a real bias in this.
Well said.