{"id":542061,"date":"2021-05-26T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542061"},"modified":"2021-05-26T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:35:59","slug":"the-media-cant-quit-trump-nearly-40-of-all-stories-about-joe-biden-mention-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-cant-quit-trump-nearly-40-of-all-stories-about-joe-biden-mention-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Can\u2019t Quit Trump: Nearly 40% Of All Stories About Joe Biden Mention Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-media-cant-quit-trump-nearly-40-of-all-stories-about-joe-biden-mention-donald-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1254877163.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Although he\u2019s been out of office for 126 days, the legacy media cannot stop talking about former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Joe Biden\u2019s presidency began to hit its legislative stride, the media still mentioned the name of the 45th president in about four out of every 10 news stories written about the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/05\/24\/trump-mentioned-in-about-half-of-biden-stories-during-early-weeks-in-office-but-less-so-over-time\/\">analyzed<\/a> all the media coverage of President Joe Biden\u2019s first 60 days, which ended March 21, including left-leaning, right-leaning, and \u201cmixed audience\u201d news outlets and found that Donald Trump cropped up in media reports across the board. Trump\u2019s dominance of Biden\u2019s news cycle ran from the first day until the last day of the study, Pew found.<\/p>\n<p>Trump figured into 72% of all stories the first week of the Biden presidency, and as many as half of all stories for the first six weeks of the newly inaugurated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-instructs-fed-agencies-to-say-biden-harris-administration-report-says\">Biden-Harris administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the media focused on the COVID-19 \u201cstimulus\u201d bill, and Biden blasted Texas and Mississippi\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-bans-mask-mandates-for-local-governments-and-public-schools\">neanderthal thinking<\/a>\u201d for lifting their mask mandates during the seventh week of his presidency, the media dragged former President Trump into 30% of all stories about his successor.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s media mentions topped 40% in each of the last two weeks of the study.<\/p>\n<p>But Pew noted a certain kind of media story left Trump out of the picture: stories about COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The media mentioned President Trump in the majority (56%) of all stories that had nothing to do with the coronavirus global pandemic, and in even more (61%) of the stories that mentioned COVID-19 \u201cin a minor way,\u201d according to Pew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the percentage falls to 34% among stories that mentioned COVID-19 in a major way,\u201d Pew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/05\/24\/trump-mentioned-in-about-half-of-biden-stories-during-early-weeks-in-office-but-less-so-over-time\/\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the media have portrayed the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines across the nation as a major success of the Biden administration, they often fail to note how President Trump\u2019s Operation Warp Speed played a key role in allowing for the vaccine\u2019s creation in record-breaking time.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also took credit for administering 100 million vaccines to the American people, falsely claiming that unspecified members of the media had proclaimed the feat was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the United States had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lets-do-the-math-debunking-joe-bidens-outrageous-vaccine-claims\">on target<\/a> to meet that goal before Biden ever took office.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the media primarily dismiss Trump\u2019s statements affirming his role in the nation\u2019s groundbreaking move toward herd immunity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTrump Claims Credit for Vaccines. Some of His Backers Don\u2019t Want to Take Them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-vaccine-skeptics.html\">wrote<\/a> the New York Times;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTrump takes credit for vaccine rollout: \u2018One of the greatest miracles of the ages,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/555247-trump-takes-credit-for-vaccine-rollout-one-of-the-greatest-miracles\">reported<\/a> The Hill; and<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTrump is desperate to get credit for the COVID-19 vaccines, but his political heartlands are reluctant to actually take them,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/trump-desperate-credit-covid-19-143324858.html\">said<\/a> a headline in Business Insider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert even called Donald Trump\u2019s claims on operation warp speed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/stephen-colbert-donald-trumps-statement-credit-vaccines-pathetic-1575683\">pathetic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the media have let Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-falsely-claims-we-didnt-have-a-vaccine-when-we-came-into-office\">falsely claim<\/a> that \u201cwe didn\u2019t have\u201d a vaccine when he became president and allowed Dr. Anthony Fauci to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/best-decision-dr-fauci-takes-credit-for-covid-19-vaccines\">say<\/a> authorizing the vaccine was \u201cthe best decision I\u2019ve ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pew study also found that the media have given Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-media-gives-biden-less-negative-coverage-than-any-president-on-record\">less negative coverage<\/a> than any commander-in-chief since Pew started monitoring the coverage nearly 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, \u201cTrump himself was mentioned in about half the stories about the new Biden administration,\u201d the Pew study concluded. One reason may be that cable news viewership has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/4-reasons-media-ratings-have-plunged-since-joe-bidens-inauguration\">plummeted precipitously<\/a> since President Trump left office.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he\u2019s been out of office for 126 days, the legacy media cannot stop talking about former President Donald Trump.Even as Joe Biden\u2019s presidency began to hit its legislative stride, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313185,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1254877163.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Can\u2019t Quit Trump: Nearly 40% Of All Stories About Joe Biden Mention Donald Trump","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1254877163.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Can\u2019t Quit Trump: Nearly 40% Of All Stories About Joe Biden Mention Donald Trump","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}