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It’s 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term, and his administration has continued to move at “Trump speed.”
The president has signed a record-breaking 142 executive orders, taking actions such as ending the “catch and release” policy on illegal immigration, declaring a national energy emergency, cutting DEI-related funding and policies, and downsizing the federal bureaucracy, among others.
He also signed into law the Laken Riley Act against illegal alien crime and oversaw the deportation of more than 139,000 illegal immigrants to secure the southern border.
But, predictably, the corporate media have spent the 100 days making the story about themselves.
On Tuesday afternoon, the White House sent out an article titled “100 DAYS OF HOAXES: Cutting Through the Fake News” that mocked the corporate media’s main-character syndrome. The release lists more than 50 of the most hilarious and deceptive media hoaxes.
Unsurprisingly, the first hoax mentioned was a story from CNN.
When CNN attempted to “fact-check” Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 4, it initially rated the president’s claim that the Biden administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on “making mice transgender” false.
The White House, however, brought the receipts on March 5. An article on the White House website titled, “Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments,” listed and linked to the government-funded experiments.
The Biden administration gave $455,000 to a study, “A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses”; $2,500,000 to “Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration” on mice; and $3,100,000 to a study that looked into “gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma” in mice.
In total, the Biden administration wasted $8 million of taxpayers’ hard-earned money on these experiments.
CNN was forced to update its story to say the claim is not false, but “needs context”:
An earlier version of this item incorrectly characterized as false Trump’s claim about federal money being spent for ‘making mice transgender.’ The article has been updated with context about the spending, which was for research studies on the potential human health impacts of treatments used in gender-affirming care.
Another one of the media hoaxes listed by the White House was a story from The Associated Press that claimed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “very good friends.”
The story, initially titled “Gabbard Says Trump And Putin Are ‘Very Good Friends,’ Focused On Strengthening Ties,” was pulled down, before the AP published it with the following correction:
This story was updated on March 17, 2025, to delete erroneous reporting that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘are very good friends.’ Gabbard was talking about Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked for comment, a spokesperson for the AP said the story was pulled because “it did not meet [its] standards.”
The ordeal enraged Alexa Henning, a DNI spokesperson, who accused the media of malicious incompetence.
Olivia Coleman, Gabbard’s press secretary, posted on X that she attempted to contact the AP about the story before the correction was made, but “have so far heard nothing regarding their literal fake news article about the DNI.”
Media hoaxers have come for Vice President JD Vance as well. An April 22 post on X from The Daily Beast claimed Vance “broke one of the most notorious Vatican rules during his Easter weekend visit” with Pope Francis the day before the pope’s passing.
The story, titled “JD Vance Ripped for Embarrassing Gaffe During Vatican Visit,” alleged Vance broke the rule that “visitors are ‘forbidden’ from taking photographs in the chapel.” The Daily Beast buried a crucial detail in paragraph 14: “A source close to the situation told the Daily Beast that the Vatican gave special permission for the photographer in question to take pictures inside the Sistine Chapel.”
At a pace of at least two hoaxes a day during Trump’s first 100 days, the media are on track to push nearly 3,000 false narratives by the time he leaves office in January 2029.
Bradley Devlin is a politics editor for The Daily Signal.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Bradley Devlin
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