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HEADLIES
December 2025
I don’t know if I’ll be able to properly express the sentiments and thoughts that I want to convey, but here goes … This is the final commentary or editorial that I plan to insert into the Newsletter. I want to sincerely thank the individuals and readers who have sent supportive emails and comments over the years and gave me the fuel to keep writing. I also want to thank the few who tried to cancel and guilt me into shutting up and not speaking up for giving me the motivation to continue ranting.
I have now kept and shared a daily journal for two years of news headlines that have rubbed me the wrong way. I have ranted and griped about what I perceived to be unfair news coverage of conservatives. I have vented about twisted and biased reporting that seems to be an attempt to sway public opinion, influence elections and expose the dirt on one party while hiding the dirt on another party.
I want to briefly share two personal realizations from my two year HeadLIES columns:
- As I have vented and griped about the mainstream media’s one-sidedness and biased coverage of the news, I have kind of noticed that my rantings about the media have also become one-sided and biased. I can’t really say anything nice or positive about the mainstream media anymore and I’m not happy that I have morphed into such a negative person when it comes to politics and daily topics of discussion. I am no longer being objective, because of my disdain for the mainstream media.
- There is tremendous current public awareness for tolerance and acceptance for all individuals regardless of their race, sex, age, disability, religion, color, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, national origin … you name it … unless a person holds conservative values and beliefs. There is little widespread or public tolerance or acceptance of conservatives. Unfortunately, conservatives are not openly accepted by the folks preaching tolerance and acceptance for everyone. Conservatives are treated much the same way that gays and lesbians were treated thirty years ago … they are encouraged to go into a closet and keep their beliefs to themselves, but to not be conservative in public.
It’s time for me to do something else with my time, as I’m starting to sound like a broken record and am simply saying the same thing over and over again. Thanks again to everyone who has browsed and skimmed through the Commentary section these past few years and I wish everyone the very best in the New Year.
| – – December 2025 HEADLIES – – |
| DATE: December 1, 2025 SOURCE: NY Times, Google News HEADLINE: Congress should investigate Trump’s Venezuela boat attacks COMMENT: Hasn’t Congress, every media outlet, every Democrat AG and the Biden FBI & CIA already investigated Trump’s taxes, finances, mistresses, business deals, family situation, health records and colonoscopy pictures for the last 20 years? There are a lot of people who don’t trust Trump, and that’s fine; but I would appreciate them spending their own money and time on their investigations, instead of taking up taxpayer time, money and resources. |
| DATE: December 2, 2025 SOURCE: CNN, Google News HEADLINE: Fact Check: Trump delivers long list of false claims at Cabinet Meeting COMMENT: This CNN reporter is a Canadian journalist who is best known (only known) for his personal fact checks on Trump. The article starts, “As usual, President Trump made numerous false claims …”. It’s great that CNN has a designated reporter who personally checks on every Trump claim. Unfortunately, this reporter has not published any articles highlighting any of Trump’s legitimate claims. He only reports on the things he finds fault with, but never the ones that are true. Isn’t that the very essence of bias and hatred? Can you really call yourself a reporter (or a News Network) if all you do is tell one side of a story? |
| DATE: December 3, 2025 SOURCE: Washington Post, NY Times, Google News HEADLINE: Trump administration will block SNAP management funds for blue states COMMENT: Another horribly misleading and biased headlie. The real headline should read ‘Blue states refuse to disclose voter and immigration data to the Federal government for verification’. The Trump administration has a legal right to see who is being granted the right to vote in blue states and the real story here is why are blue states hiding their voter and immigration data? |
| DATE: December 4, 2025 SOURCE: CNN HEADLINE: Trump called his predecessor ‘Sleepy Joe’. Now, he seems to be dozing off in meetings COMMENT: The media didn’t seem interested or motivated in covering four years of Biden’s naps or absence at events, meetings or press conferences; but there is now renewed interest once again, which once again shows the bias, hatred and one-sided story telling of the media. |
| DATE: December 5, 2025 SOURCE: CNN, Google News HEADLINE: Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms COMMENT: The Governor and Texas Legislature approved the changing of the map, not Trump. The media’s spin on the news is sad, because the California changing of the map to favor Democrats was heralded as a good and fair thing, while the Texas move is being sold as power grabbing by Trump. |
| DATE: December 6, 2025 SOURCE: USA Today HEADLINE: JD Vance addresses Usha Vance divorce speculation COMMENT: It’s dishonest, biased, dirty and mean to only target Republicans and their personal lives with daily headlines. Michelle and Barack Obama haven’t been seen together (according to Google and Chatgpt) since May 2025 and the media isn’t spreading their personal problems on the front pages or the internet on a daily basis. |
| DATE: December 7, 2025 SOURCE: MSN News HEADLINE: Kaitlan Collins gives 6-word response to Donald Trump’s ‘stupid and nasty’ Truth Social rant about her COMMENT: It’s great that the media is defending Kaitlan Clark, telling her side of the story and once again making her the victim; but it would also be nice if they listed all of her mean and nasty attacks on Trump over the years. If someone repeatedly attacked me in their reporting month after month, I too would lose my patience and tolerance with them. |
| DATE: December 8, 2025 SOURCE: CBS, Google News, NBC HEADLINE: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans “terrified to step out of line” when it comes to Trump COMMENT: Has the media explored or even asked the question of whether Democrats are “terrified to step out of line” when it comes to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Harris or Biden? How many Democrats kept their mouths shut when Biden was asleep at the wheel? How many Democrats spoke up when they appointed Kamala Harris as their nominee without any kind of vote or debate? |
| DATE: December 9, 2025 SOURCE: AP News, Google News HEADLINE: Soccer peace prize for Trump triggers complaints COMMENT: The media and Trump haters are going insane that someone has given Trump a Peace Award! The haters want Trump labeled as a power hungry dictator and are going crazy that someone has given him a peace award! What’s the big deal? Haters are always going to hate. |
| DATE: December 10, 2025 SOURCE: USA Today HEADLINE: Trump says Venezuela sends US lethal drugs, but data tells different story COMMENT: The source for this story simply states that Venezuela does not have illegal drugs listed as one of its exports (duh!) … which is like asking a thief if he steals! If you are exporting illegal drugs, you obviously don’t list those drugs as one of your exports! This isn’t journalism or news … It’s propaganda. |
| DATE: December 11, 2025 SOURCE: NBC, Google News HEADLINE: U.S. seizes oil tanker amid tensions with Venezuela and health care disagreements plague the GOP COMMENT: Tensions with Venezuela is one story. The Obamacare debacle and failure of the so-called Affordable Care Act is another story. Lumping the two stories together is an attempt by the media to attack the GOP, instead of covering each story separately. Again, the media is more intent on dividing Americans, than reporting actual news. |
| DATE: December 12, 2025 SOURCE: Fox News, Google News HEADLINE: Black Lives Matter OKC leader charged with wire fraud, money laundering in embezzlement scheme COMMENT: I don’t think racism and discrimination has ever been a black or white issue. It’s usually a case of those with scruples and integrity and those without scruples and integrity. It’s not the color of your skin or race, but your morals and ethics that need to be examined. The media and the left would rather divide the nation based on race, color, religion or sexual orientation, but it’s really a lack of character and morals that are the root of the problem. |
| DATE: December 13, 2025 SOURCE: CNN, Google News HEADLINE: New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high profile people COMMENT: Surprisingly, out of the 19 photos released, CNN chose to only publish the one with Trump in it, while other high profile people’s photos were not published. CNN should print all 19 photos … otherwise, it’s more of a witchhunt than actual caring about the victims. I’m personally not sure any of this publicity is good for the victims of all those crimes and feel bad for everyone involved … except for Epstein and his helpers. |
| DATE: December 14, 2025 SOURCE: Huffington Post, MSN News HEADLINE: Jake Tapper rejects White House reason for Trump’s bruises: ‘There is something going on’ COMMENT: I don’t know how many people are staying up worrying about Trump’s bruises? I didn’t know he was ‘bruised’ and I read the headlines every day! The media’s daily insistence that there is something wrong with Trump … whether it’s his Peace Plan for Ukraine, his handling of the economy, his intolerance for DEI, his weight or his bruises are all a targeted and coordinated attack to make him look bad and promote the Democrat or Socialist alternative. |
| DATE: December 15, 2025 SOURCE: The Hill, Google News HEADLINE: Republicans face a health care dilemma COMMENT: The dilemma is that the Democrats passed an Unaffordable Care Act (or Obamacare) and now that everyone is realizing we could never afford this plan … the media is pinning the blame on the Republicans? It’s the usual daily propaganda of twisted truths and lies to divide Americans and drive a wedge between us. |
| DATE: December 16, 2025 SOURCE: AP News HEADLINE: Photos reveal impact of U.S. Aid cuts on Rohingya children in camps in Bangladesh COMMENT: The corrupt and America dividing media is blaming the world’s hunger, disease, lack of education and poverty problems on Trump’s budget cuts. Sadly no amount of U.S. aid is going to solve those problems on a permanent basis. The media should investigate the amount of fraud, mismanagement, embezzlement and corruption in U.S. Aid, instead of showing pictures of sick children. |
| DATE: December 17, 2025 SOURCE: AP News HEADLINE: Trump is previewing his 2026 agenda in an address to the nation as his popularity wanes COMMENT: Trump’s address to the nation is the headline. The part about his popularity waning is propaganda, opinion and misinformation. Trump haters are going to hate and will always take part in polls, but a lot of Trump supporters have been shamed and keep their support of him silent and do not participate in polls. We’ve had one legitimate poll of Trump and the silent majority voted him into the Presidency. |
| DATE: December 18, 2025 SOURCE: NY Times, CNN, NBC, Google News HEADLINE: Fact-checking Trump’s prime-time address on the economy COMMENT: The last 20 times that I fact checked the NY Times, CNN, NBC and the rest of the mainstream media, I found they never said anything positive about Trump and everything they said was meant to divide the nation and sway public opinion toward a Democrat or Socialist agenda. I didn’t read any of these articles, but I feel that I already know that their fact checkers (or Trump haters) disagreed with everything the President said. |
| DATE: December 19, 2025 SOURCE: AP News HEADLINE: Trump gave an unusually partisan White House address. Should networks have given him the TV time? COMMENT: Two days have passed and the mainstream media has still not really reported on any of the good news that Trump conveyed to the American people. The media has spent two days trashing his speech and trying to censor him from future addresses to the nation. Again, haters are going to hate. The media outlets are making up their own news, instead of reporting to the American people and allowing people to come up with their own conclusions. |
| DATE: December 20, 2025 SOURCE: NBC, Google News, NY Times HEADLINE: U.S. strikes ISIS targets in Syria in retaliation for killing of 3 Americans COMMENT: The killing of the 3 Americans did not receive half the media attention and scrutiny that the U.S. response is receiving. I’m certainly opposed to the killing of people, but I do think peace through strength is more lasting than peace through appeasement. |
| DATE: December 21, 2025 SOURCE: AP News HEADLINE: Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts COMMENT: Is it really fair to blame the trafficking and exploitation of women in Bangladesh on Trump? Don’t the people of Bangladesh bear some responsibility for the protection and care of their own people? Money isn’t the problem, it’s the culture that permits these behaviors that is the problem, not the reduction of foreign aid. By the way, Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking women right here in America, so connecting foreign aid cuts to this topic is not logical. The problem is the evil and bad people who are hiding among the good and innocent people. |
| DATE: December 22, 2025 SOURCE: The Guardian, Google News HEADLINE: Justice Department restores Epstein files image featuring Trump after outcry COMMENT: Outcry from who? Other than hate-filled Democrats and their media puppets, nobody else in this country or world cares about these files. Who in this country wakes up everyday and scans the internet for news on the Epstein files? The fact that the media shoves this story down everyone’s throat on a daily basis is yet another example of their attempt to divide Americans in order to destroy our way of life from within. |
| DATE: December 23, 2025 SOURCE: BBC, Washington Post, CNN HEADLINE: Trump listed as passenger on eight flights on Epstein’s private jet + Denmark ‘deeply upset’ by Trump’s appointment of Greenland envoy COMMENT: Every headlie is written to make Trump look bad. Nothing positive, good or uplifting to report or cover. Does it do any good to trash and character assassinate a guy who is going to be President for another three years? Why doesn’t the media leave him alone and quit trying to divide the nation? The media and those who seek to control the minds of Americans have their own agenda and are not interested in a UNITED States of America. Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter and stopped a portion of the censorship. |
| DATE: December 24, 2025 SOURCE: NPR, Google News HEADLINE: New Epstein files mention Trump COMMENT: This isn’t even news anymore! Everybody already knows the names of everyone who hung out with Epstein. No coverage of lowering gas and oil prices, lowering of grocery prices, a more secure border, more welfare dollars for actual Americans, fewer DEI mandates being forced down our throats, more support for Police, less drugs entering our country … there are actual things that are benefiting Americans that the media doesn’t want to cover, but the headlies are only what will make Trump look bad. |
| DATE: December 25, 2025 SOURCE: CBS, Google News HEADLINE: Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building COMMENT: The truth is that the event was not canceled. The performer decided to not perform because Trump’s name was added to the building. Is that a form of silent protest or bias/bigotry and hatred? If a person doesn’t serve someone because they are gay/black or disabled, the media labels them as bigots, racists and hateful people; but in this case of bigotry toward a political ideology the media cancels the concert, instead of the individuals who decided not to perform because of their hatred toward a particular political ideology. |
| DATE: December 26, 2025 SOURCE: CNBC, Google News HEADLINE: The Trump-class battleship faces a large obstacle in its way: Reality COMMENT: The media’s disdain for anything that has Trump’s name on it is sad. Why trash our Navy, our servicemen and women and expose the weaknesses of our military? How does this help our country? The media would rather divide our country and expose our weaknesses to our enemies, than portray peace through strength. |
| DATE: December 27, 2025 SOURCE: Truthout, Google News HEADLINE: Experts say Trump’s narrative of a ‘holy war’ in Nigeria threatens to inflame religious tensions and incite violence COMMENT: The ‘experts’ cited in this story never knew or experienced the violence against the Christians which were the basis for the attacks. This would be the equivalent of asking Germans during WWII if there was an attempt to exterminate the Jews? Most Germans either had no clue what their government was doing or had turned a blind eye to what was taking place. |
| DATE: December 28, 2025 SOURCE: AP News HEADLINE: US pledges $2B for UN humanitarian aid as Trump slashes funding and warns agencies to ‘adapt or die’ COMMENT: The real story is the mismanagement, theft, embezzlement and fraud associated with the money earmarked for humanitarian aid. The media refuses to cover how much money is wasted or skimmed before it even reaches its intended target and as usual uses the story to attack Trump. |
| DATE: December 29, 2025 SOURCE: NPR News HEADLINE: For those who help the poor, 2025 goes down as a year of chaos COMMENT: I guess it all depends on how you define ‘HELP’? Help could be defined as either teaching someone to fish to earn their own meal, or simply handing someone a fish everyday to keep them fed. The problem many conservatives have with giving everyone a fish everyday (and forever) is that before long, everyone stops fishing or earning their own meal and simply stands there and waits for someone to bring them their meal. The current model of ‘helping’ the poor has only created more poverty. |
| DATE: December 30, 2025 SOURCE: CNN HEADLINE: First, a viral video. Then a ‘surge’ of federal resources to investigate alleged child care fraud in Minnesota COMMENT: Once again, the media refuses to acknowledge, report, cover or look into the actual fraud and theft of public funds taking place in Minnesota, and has instead turned the story into another attack on the vindictive current administration for overreaching their authority. |
| DATE: December 31, 2025 SOURCE: CNN, Google News HEADLINE: Trump administration freezes child care payments to Minnesota amid federal investigation into alleged fraud COMMENT: And I’ll say it again for this … my last time … the story here is not and should not be the Trump administration being some heartless and cruel entity which is now taking food out of the mouth of children; but the administrators and liberal bureaucrats in Minnesota who have been stealing millions and millions of dollars that were intended for children for years and years. The media is always making Trump out as the bad guy, and hiding the real thieves and scoundrels hiding behind the scenes. |
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