The warning bells are deafening, yet most Americans refuse to listen. Our national airwaves have been weaponized. Two of the largest broadcast networks in the country are no longer news outlets. They are political tools, openly serving one party while pretending to serve the public. Donald Trump didn’t whisper this truth. He shouted it on Truth Social. He named names. He revealed the rot at the heart of our media system.
“ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in history, give me 97% BAD STORIES. IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC” Newsweek
The number “97%” is incendiary. It is not a casual complaint. It is a signal. A warning. Americans are being fed a diet of narratives that reinforce a single ideology while ignoring inconvenient truths. And here’s what the mainstream media refuses to confront: the networks wield enormous power over what millions of people believe. They can shape elections, dictate culture, and erase dissenting voices. The fact that this is being framed as “Trump complaining” hides the real danger. It is not about Trump. It is about control.
“They should lose their Licenses for their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives, but at a minimum, they should pay up BIG for having the privilege of using the most valuable airwaves anywhere at anytime!!! Crooked ‘journalism’ should not be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!” Deadline
The words escalate from criticism to a call for accountability. Crooked journalism, Trump insists, is not merely misleading. It is theft. It is the theft of attention, trust, and power. But the mainstream glosses over an even deeper problem: these networks occupy public property, airwaves that belong to all Americans, yet they are allowed to operate without true accountability. Every year, they pay hundreds of millions in fees to the FCC. Yet those fees do nothing to guarantee truth, fairness, or even basic honesty.
Legal experts say the FCC cannot act on content alone. Former chair Ajit Pai explained that revoking a license based on newscasts would violate the law. The agency licenses stations, not networks. That is technically true. But legal technicalities cannot hide the systemic rot. Current chair Brendan Carr has reopened the conversation, hinting at reforms to “root out the bias that has undermined trust in the national news media.” Deadline
Ask yourself this: if political bias could justify revoking licenses, what would stop a future administration from weaponizing the FCC to silence its opponents entirely? This is not hypothetical. It is a slippery slope. The media coverage focuses on Trump’s quotes, but the implications are far more profound. Entire networks could be threatened, not for illegal activity, but for telling the wrong story.
Trump’s “97% BAD STORIES” claim is not statistical. It is a spotlight. It forces a question that the press refuses to ask: how much of what you see on ABC and NBC is filtered, framed, or erased entirely? And when bias is recognized, who benefits? Clearly not the public.
The FCC collects $390.1 million annually in fees. Broadcasters already pay based on population. Trump’s argument that ABC and NBC owe “millions of dollars a year in LICENSE FEES” is technically mistaken. The money is collected. The issue is leverage. Control. Power. If networks know that their licenses could be challenged for political bias, every story, every narrative, every omission becomes a calculated act of allegiance. It is a weaponization of truth itself. MSN
Trump is not calling for neutrality. He is demanding allegiance. Crooked journalism is now framed as an existential threat. A danger to democracy. And make no mistake, this is exactly what it is. When public airwaves serve ideology instead of truth, the Republic itself becomes fragile. The next time you turn on the TV, consider who is controlling the signal, who decides what you are allowed to know, and what they gain by keeping you in the dark. The consequences will not be subtle. They will be devastating.
