Watched #MeetThePress for the first time in ages, hoping for good coverage of #NoKings yesterday. Disappointing coverage at best.

10 minutes left in the show, perhaps they will redeem themselves.

#USPOL

Kristen Welker (host of #MeetThePress: "Do you have any evidence of Medicaid fraud?"

Speaker Mike Johnson: "There is a tremendous amount of fraud"
but he did not mention any specific evidence of fraud.

John Harwood: "Weird that there's a tremendous amount of fraud, but they still can't find it. Unless he just thinks providing health care to poor people and seniors is, in itself, fraudulent."

#extremism #dishonesty #BigUglyBill #greed #recklessness #politics

#SundayShowdown

Not to belittle the seriousness of a growing sense of loneliness & isolation among young people who over-indulge in #SocialMedia...

...but a week after Trump openly accepts a $400M emolument in the form of a gifted luxury 747, Trump invites the Rich & Powerful to his private resort to stuff his pockets with cash, and #MeetThePress decides this this is the week to focus on Childhood Loneliness.

...I think #MtP needs a reality check. 🤦‍♂️

More details on Golden Dome announced at Oval Office presser, $25B in budget to start. #missiledefense #meetthepress https://washingtonhorizon.com/golden-dome-unveiled-in-oval-office-press-event/

Imagine a country without being able to write this. Now discover what freedom means to me.
#freedom #qoth #constitution #meetthepress #samsmith #writingsonthewall #friendshipsmatter #inspiration #givingback #grattitude #wordsofwisdom #humanity #happiness #journalism #writerscommunity #writerlife

https://rickollie.com/2025/05/05/what-freedom-means-to-me-a-writers-perspective/

Imagine a country without being able to write this. Now discover what freedom means to me.
#freedom #qoth #constitution #meetthepress #samsmith #writingsonthewall #friendshipsmatter #inspiration #givingback #grattitude #wordsofwisdom #humanity #happiness #journalism #writerscommunity #writerlife

https://rickollie.com/2025/05/05/what-freedom-means-to-me-a-writers-perspective/

On #MeetThePress:

WELKER: "When does it become the Trump economy?"

TRUMP: "It partially is right now. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy."

Unlike Trump, I never said to a college professor: "The questions I answered correctly were based on my skill, and the questions I have wrong are another student's fault. Don't ask me who and don't ask me why."

#Idon’tknow #MeetThePress
Trump just admitted on air he ran his campaign and took an oath to the Constitution under false pretenses with intent to defraud. He must be impeached without delay, he and his loyalists leaders like Speaker Johnson.

Joe Gallina: "In a peak clown moment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Steve Witkoff an 'ambassador' — even though he isn’t one. It is a perfect fit for the GOP: fake titles for fake leaders."
#politics #MeetThePress

If it's Sunday
it's a fake county
#NBC #MeetThePress #FolsomCounty

Never ask #NBC for directions.
EVERYBODY working on NBC's #MeetThePress today have no idea "Folsom County" in California is not a thing.
#Folsom #FolsomCounty
#news #geography #literacy

Peter Navarro (a pro-tariff Trump extremist) said to interviewer Kristen Welker: "I don't think you'd disagree with me that all the world cheats us, to the tune of $1.2 trillion per year."

Kristen Welker let this nonsense be said without her disagreeing or even asking a follow-up question.
#MeetThePress #media #politics

Do you want to be praised on television as being great?

#MeetThePress wrote: "Peter Navarro says ‘Elon and I are great’ after Musk calls him ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’."

Agree that pro-tariff extremist Peter Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks, and you also could be praised as being great.

Trump Rants About His Record Approval Ratings (They’re Not), “Not Joking” About Third Term
#News #Politics #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush #JoeBiden #MAGA #MeetThePress #NBCNews

https://deadline.com/2025/03/trump-third-term-polls-nbc-1236354223/

"Who is the leader of the Democratic Party?"

Sen. Elissa Slotkin said: "I am straight forward (blah, blah, blah)" But she never said who is the leader of the Democratic Party. She also could have admitted that the Democratic Party has no leader at this time.

She did very well in her televised response to Trump, but she was unimpressive today on #MeetThePress. #politics

Today on #MeetThePress, Sen. Markwayne Mullin set a new record for how many lies one Senator could tell in the shortest amount of time. When his answers about Ukraine and Russia were often evasive and other times totally unbelievable, he was asked follow up questions that revealed his dishonesty. His audience was Trump, not the many people who heard his lies. #politics #ethics #media #NationalSecurity

Sen. Markwayne Mullet accuses Biden of appeasement on Russia. Unfuckingbelievable.

#MeetThePress

Sunday morning talk shows such as #MeetThePress should be more thoughtful in their treatment of the Trump Administration officials who they interview. For example, if the guest is Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, they should offer him a glass of whiskey which he would drink, with viewers watching, in between his answers. A glass? Maybe pass the whole bottle of whiskey to him. #politics #media #hospitality #alcoholism

On #MeetThePress, Mike Waltz made lame excuses for Elon Musk cutting programs at the Pentagon where Musk has conflicts of interest due to his billions of dollars of contracts there. #Trump #corruption #greed

On #MeetThePress, Mike Waltz made lame excuses for Trump's destruction of life saving programs at #USAID. #Trump #cruelty #greed