Trump Shuts Down Voice of America

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".

Posted by Corky at 10:30 PM | 34 COMMENTS | permalink

Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).

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-- Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) March 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM

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"A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda", and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media railing against the "leftist", "partisan" VOA.

VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda.

It is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world."

He could have just changed the name to Voice of Vlad.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-16 10:41 AM

---- that fat retarded pile of ----

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-16 11:11 AM

Good short-wave radios are available for incoming prodemocracy broadcasts, maybe from northern Europe or the UK.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-16 01:24 PM

"The cancellation of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty grant agreement will be a huge gift to America's enemies," RFE/RL President and CEO Stephen Capus said on Saturday.

"The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years. Handing our adversaries a win would make them stronger and America weaker," Capus said.

VOA and RFE/RL are designated as undesirable foreign organizations by Russia."

www.politico.eu

DJT had his orders straight from Vlad to shut down these democracy advocates.

I mean, who needs democracy if you have a King?

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-16 05:21 PM

I don't want to pay for anyone's propaganda.
They can buy an ad.

Plus it's a boondoggle.

#5 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-16 10:41 PM

You mean truth and propaganda are the same to you.
You know how that can be?
I wonder if you do.

#6 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-16 10:50 PM

I don't want to pay for anyone's propaganda.

You're already consuming all the rightwing republicans propaganda you can handle.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-16 11:03 PM

This is the "no show" job Trump gave that crazy wingbat, Kari Lake ...

Now, she's DOGE'd. LOL!!!!!!

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-17 12:56 AM

The BBC headline is just another lie the lame-brains will run with.

No one is shutting down anything. If you want to spread propaganda, do it on your own dime.

"A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda", and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media criticising the broadcaster"

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-17 08:11 AM

Putin's --- dumpster once again bends over for Moscow.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-17 08:14 AM

Of course, lfthnddips%^* willingly swallows what they gave him.

No wonder he's always so enamored with the thoughts of anonymous gay sex.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-17 09:52 AM

Russians Celebrate Trump's Closure of Voice of America

www.newsweek.com

The orcs are ecstatic over Putin's butt ----- actions.

#12 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-17 11:35 AM

The government paying for any kind of public media is absolutely wrong and every single one of you know it. You just won't own up to it when it meets your narrative. Typical and pathetic.

#13 | Posted by humtake at 2025-03-17 11:43 AM

It figures HumTrig is an orc-loving MAGAt loser.

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-17 11:45 AM

The government paying for any kind of public media is absolutely wrong and every single one of you know it. You just won't own up to it when it meets your narrative. Typical and pathetic.

#13 | Posted by humtake at 2025-03-17 11:43 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Problem for the Libs, like Air America, these Lib networks can't survive on their own. Not enough listeners and for good reason.

#15 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-17 11:57 AM

"The government paying for any kind of public media is absolutely wrong and every single one of you know it."

Why?

Why is having The Stars And Stripes newspaper absolutely wrong?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-17 11:59 AM

"No one is shutting down anything."

Describe sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming, without using those specific words.

#17 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-03-17 12:21 PM

#11 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2025-03-17 09:52 AM | REPLY | FLAG

Dr Strangelove says what? At least I can read and comprehend the ---- post/comment on.

#18 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-17 12:36 PM

"Dr Strangelove says what?"

Sorry, Slim.

Riding atop the falling bomb is the wrong time to ask the question.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-03-17 12:42 PM

"The government paying for any kind of public media is absolutely wrong and every single one of you know it. You just won't own up to it when it meets your narrative. Typical and pathetic."

Soall these years I've been Hlisteing to NPR should have been spent listening to Fox News like you humtske SO i COULD BE JUST AS DUMB AS YOU ARE TODAY?Sorry stupid, I chose real news instead of Rupert Murdoch's well paid liars,
Anyone who primarily gets their information from Fox News is as dumb as HUMTAKE. Sad .but true

#20 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-17 01:59 PM

Not enough listeners and for good reason.

#15 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Too many boring facts.

Not enough good agitprop and conspiracy theories to get the hate of the Other and that revenge and retribution blood thirsty faux rage going.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-17 02:05 PM

Dr Strangelove says what? At least I can read and comprehend the ---- post/comment on.

#18 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Have you even seen Dr Strangelove?

If you had you wouldn't be so eager to mention it.

It portrays maga morons with their conspiracy theories in a very poor light.

General Ripper uncomfortably reminds me of General Flynn.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-17 02:14 PM

Not enough listeners and for good reason.

LMAO! You have no idea - but you'll jump on anything, won't you?
You are so clueless, but such a good maga myrmidon.

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-17 02:15 PM

MAGA supports their dear leader golfing 1/3 of his time in office, because FDT's golfing is more important than safe air travel and national security.

#24 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-03-17 03:04 PM

Can't have any dissenting voices outside the current pro-Moscow narrative, can we?

#25 | Posted by morris at 2025-03-17 03:20 PM

Cheers in China as Epstein's wingman dismantles Voice Of America.

www.cnn.com

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-17 09:42 PM

#20 | Posted by danni at 2025-03-17 01:59 PM | Reply | Flag:
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I wish NPR's listeners can figure out how to use spell check.
And btw, Miss open mindedness, how's that relationship with your Trump voting daughter going? Have you still not talked to her since 2016? What a nice parent.

#27 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-18 11:54 AM

#20 And btw Dummy, why don't you listen to both and then figure out what is true and what isn't. I listen to Fox, read the local left wing paper and then come onto this site. It's more healthy than only listening to NPR.

#28 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-18 11:57 AM

#27

What an -----'.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-18 11:57 AM

#29 That made me LOL. "-----' in your best Little Jack voice?

#30 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-03-18 12:07 PM

From the CNN link in #26:

Others cheered Trump, who during his first term in office was nicknamed "Chuan Jianguo," or "Trump, the (Chinese) nation builder" by the Chinese internet, in a mocking suggestion that the US president's isolationist foreign policy and divisive domestic agenda was helping Beijing to overtake Washington on the global stage.

"Thank you, Comrade Chuan Jianguo and Elon Musk, please take care and stay safe," a Weibo user said on Monday.

#31 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-03-18 12:07 PM

"#20 And btw Dummy, why don't you listen to both and then figure out what is true and what isn't."

That's easy.
All you have to do is remember which one sued -- and won -- for their Right To Lie.
That's the one that isn't true.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 12:08 PM

#30

My best Gracie Allen was much smarter than you voice.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-18 12:11 PM

#30

My best Gracie Allen was much smarter than you voice.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-18 12:11 PM

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