Fox’s Greg Gutfeld told fellow panelist, former Democratic Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr., on Friday evening that President Donald Trump and conservatives should remind legacy media of their faults.
Since Trump’s first administration, legacy media has maintained an anti-Trump bias in its coverage, with CNN and NBC producing more than 90% negative coverage of Trump’s first 100 days in office, according to a 2017 Harvard study. While discussing Trump’s recent remarks at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Ford told the panel he wished the president didn’t “make it so personal” after acknowledging the legal attacks against Trump from the former administration’s DOJ.
“I am so disgusted by what Harold said,” Gutfeld teased. “You know, this isn’t about winning, Harold. It’s about imprinting the memory of this event on history, because, as we know, history is always rewritten by the losers!”
“If you think media is fake, what do you think about the people? Where do you think the historians came from? They came from media. So we have to. No one else is going to do this. He has to do it. We have to do it,” Gutfeld said.
During his first administration, Trump called out legacy media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News as “fake news” due to their coverage of him. Within his first 100 days as president in 2017, a Harvard study said CNN and NBC gave Trump 93% negative coverage, while CBS gave him 91% negative coverage.
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In his third campaign run, Trump, in 2024, was charged by former President Joe Biden’s DOJ with over 80 criminal charges and three separate indictments, repeatedly calling out the charges against him. Within his address to his second administration’s DOJ Friday, Trump accused Biden of attempting to turn the agency into a “department of injustice,” declaring, “those days are over, and they are never going to come back.”
“What you don’t hear right now. What’s that silence? It’s all the people in the media who tried to take him out. They aren’t saying, ‘Oh, we were wrong. Oh, whoopsie daisy. Biden has dementia!’ They aren’t doing that. So we have to,” Gutfeld added. “They’ve disappeared. They’ve gone away.”
“How is this not a fable for the ages? An inspirational lesson to everyone who has felt targeted in their lives, who felt outgunned and outnumbered. If this were a Democrat, there would already be 12 movies made about this man, the most consequential political triumph in American history,” Gutfeld said.
Gutfeld went on to say that both Hollywood and the legacy media “are staying home in their pajamas [and] weeping” over Trump’s callouts. The Fox host added that it was not only necessary to repeatedly call out the media’s coverage of the president but said that if there was “justice,” they would be able to “parade every hack on TV.”
“They literally, literally, I don’t mean metaphorically, they have to eat their words. We actually take their words verbatim. We bake cookies, and we write their words on the cookies and then they have to sit down. It’s not even pay-per-view. It’s free. We just force them to eat their words, every single word,” Gutfeld said.
