Watters expressed, 'Many people are saying, do women have the emotional maturity to be president? Many people are saying, do they have the personal contacts in the business world to manage the economy?' He listed these claims to justify his controversial stance.
There's nothing subtle here. It's a multi-pronged pressure campaign to discourage independent reporting. Trump's frustration may betray anxiety about the Iran war's unusually low public approval ratings or about how the war itself is actually going. The image of President Trump pressing a finger to his lips and telling an ABC reporter to be quiet landed like a gut punch, with CNN's Brian Stelter framing it not as a one-off temperamental moment but as the visible tip of a coordinated wartime pressure campaign.
Paula White stated, 'No one has paid the price like you have paid the price.' She emphasized that Trump faced betrayal and false accusations, similar to Jesus, and that his journey reflects a divine plan.
Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election. You don't think it was rigged? I think it was rigged! Trump said. Sir, where's the evidence of that? Landers asked. If you think it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter!
During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as "enemies of the people," Donald Trump presented himself as not a scourge of free speech but as its champion, promising to be a President who would reclaim this most fundamental right from the "left-wing censorship regime." In his second Inaugural Address, on January 20, 2025, he pledged to reverse "years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression," promising to sign an executive order that same day "to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America." After pausing for a standing ovation led by his new Vice-President, the self-styled free-speech warrior J. D. Vance, Trump added, "Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen, it will not happen again. Under my leadership we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law."