Trump: Defund PBS, NPR - Or Lose My Endorsement

Friday, July 11, 2025

The president, in a post on Truth Social late on Thursday, said GOP lawmakers must "adhere" to a rescissions bill ...

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Tell Congress: Protect Funding for NPR and PBS actionnetwork.org/letters/tell ...

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-- Scott Dworkin (@dworkin.bsky.social) Jul 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Suppression is Key to the Trump Oligarchs' success, whether it be suppression of voters or of factual news reporting.

Both of which are necessary to Trump's continuing Reign of Terror and the success of outright Fascism in America.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-11 11:40 AM

we don't fund any of the others.

why fund these ?

can't tell the difference between the
dem butt kissers and either of those so why am I forced to spend one penny to listen to more --- god ---- lies from any member of the "committee to elect gd scum sucking mother "loving " democrat
sh9tt eating prix

#2 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-11 06:01 PM

why am I forced to spend one penny
#2 | POSTED BY SHRIMPdick

Don't worry, dick, none of the money you receive from welfare goes to anything other than you.

It's all yours.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 06:08 PM

...why am I forced to spend one penny...
#2 | POSTED BY SHRIMPdick

Because you live in a society of 350 million people so it's not just about you?
It's laughably ironic that the one truthful independent voice in the media, the one least afraid of telling truth to power, is the government sponsored one. All the others are good capitalists and too afraid of losing money and so capitulate to King Dotard.

#4 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-07-11 10:46 PM

Does MAGA dislike NPR because it is one of the more accurate news broadcasters?

Or does MAGA dislike NPR because it does not bow down and kiss the ring of Pres Trump?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 11:05 PM

Or does MAGA dislike NPR because it does not bow down and kiss the ring of Pres Trump?

This is obviously a rhetorical question?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-11 11:07 PM

It is clear, either one if for one person, one vote democracy, or one is for the fascist empire in the making of the Trump grifting gang. An independent media is as valuable to a democracy as is having two independent political parties, devoted to the Constitution. Too bad America has only one such political party...the Democratic Party.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-12 07:42 AM

Only the real people who have watched and/or listened to PBS/NPR over many years will really appreciate what a valuable source for unbiased news they are It isn't surprising that Fascist, dictator wannabe Trump wants to stifle them but what he is too stupid to understand those two jewels of real journalism will survive with or without government funding because Americans who value honest, unbiased information will continue contributing to insure their solvency in spite of Trump's efforts to silence the truth! Because we value the truth more than we despise him.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-12 08:06 AM

There was an episode back in the 90's where Sesame Street did a skit roasting trump. He wants revenge.

#9 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-07-12 08:14 AM

www.snopes.com

#10 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-07-12 08:15 AM

Re 9

Not one but Several episodes ...

Ronald Grump is evicting Oscar the Grump from Grump Towers on Sesame Street. As predicted by Sesame Street.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-12 08:51 AM

MAGA dislikes NPR because it gives voice to uppity minorities.

#12 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-07-12 09:15 AM

MAGA dislikes NPR because it teaches empathy and caring for one another, cooperating with each other with tolerance, kindness and love.

All things that are the antithesis to the hate, anger, ignorance, intolerance and division the GOP preaches.

A generation of Americans that were raised on Mr Rogers Neighborhood and Sesame Street, who aren't filled with hate, made it possible for Americans of all backgrounds to excel in America.

This sacred the ---- out of racist white Americans who see hard working immigrants doing better than they are.

Racist white Americans who have been here for several generations and have nothing more to show for it than their family trailer they're living in.

This is what Trump banked on.

Hate.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-12 03:21 PM

Yes

#14 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-12 07:04 PM

That should be #5

Yes

#15 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-07-12 07:05 PM

Good. Play partisan politics, fund your own ---------.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-13 01:10 AM

God ----! Right wingers on this site are even more pathetic than I believed possible. Talk about snowflakes! They melt into vapor even when it Winter outside.

#17 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-07-13 01:20 AM

87 people in editorial positions at NPR and not a single one of them is a Republican. We don't need state run media. My tax dollars shouldn't be going to these partisan outlets. Let them raise their own funding.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-07-13 10:02 AM

87 people in editorial positions at NPR and not a single one of them is a Republican

First, NPR does not track its employees voter registration data.

Second, There are likely way more than 87 editorial positions at NPR.

It's more in the range of 300-400 total.

So 87 out of 300? Even if true (it's probably not) ... So what?

Your "facts" are from a single disgruntled employee who apparently wrote an "essay".

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-13 10:19 AM

87 people in editorial positions at NPR and not a single one of them is a Republican.

Thank God!

None of them are a brainwashed Deplorable Trumping MAGAts, spreading hate and xenophobia.

I know that offends Trump supporters.

But seriously, ---- you.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 12:38 PM

"Why doesn't PBS teach kids to submit to oligarchs and hate people with different skin colors?"
-BullBringer

When all you have is hate in your heart.

You've failed life.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-13 12:44 PM

Here's what one of the last of the Real Conservatives thinks about the Trumpism that the Oligarch Elites have created and or funded:

www.youtube.com

Of course, Fake Conservatives like JBelle aren't going to listen.... they never listen.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-13 01:22 PM

the third thing the educated Elite
has done and this may not please you is
we produced Donald Trump

uh some people think Donald Trump
is a populist Donald Trump and Elon Musk
went to the University of Pennsylvania
and Ivy League schools and became
billionaires

JD Vance went to Yale Pete
Hegseth went to the Princeton and Yale
Steven Miller went to Duke Fox News types like
Laura Ingram went to Dartmouth and they represent the
educated Elite

and the key factor of the
educated Elite is that they're not
pro-conservative they're anti-left

they don't have a positive
Vision, a conservative vision for society

they just want to destroy the
institutions that the left now
dominates and this means in the first
place they're astoundingly
incompetent

I have a lot of sympathy
with what drove people to vote for Trump
but I'm telling you as someone who's
on the front row to what's happening do
not hit your wagon to that star

thank you you're supposed to boo

(tidbit from the above link)

#23 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-13 01:36 PM

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