In a new column for American Thinker, writer Jack Hellner argues that much of the modern media operates with a consistent bias: promote stories that hurt Donald Trump, hide those that help him. Using Gemini AI as a research tool, Hellner lays out six examples he says show a ‘get Trump’ ethos at work in mainstream reporting.
Here’s a breakdown of the cases he makes, along with the data he cites.
1. Measles: The numbers the media won’t mention
Hellner writes that the media and Democrats are working hard to blame Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a rise in U.S. measles cases. He notes that the media reported U.S. cases increased from 285 in 2024 to 2,289 in 2025. But, he says, they conveniently leave out that Mexico’s cases rose from 7 to 5,741 over the same period, despite Mexico’s population being only about 40% of the U.S. population. Canada saw cases jump from 146 to 5,462, even though its population is only about 12% of America’s.
‘The media hide these facts because they can’t blame Trump for the much higher number of cases in our neighbors,’ Hellner writes, adding that the same outlets once treated Dr. Anthony Fauci as infallible and are now silent about his record because they share the blame.
2. Border deaths: A tale of two presidencies
The column argues that media coverage of migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border flips depending on who occupies the White House. Hellner cites figures showing 300 deaths in 2019 and 254 in 2020, under Trump’s first term. Then, he says, after Biden took office and ‘opened the floodgates,’ deaths rose to 557 in 2021 and 853 by 2022—making the border the deadliest in the world, per the column.
Now, with Trump’s renewed border security, deaths dropped to 130 in 2025. Hellner accuses the media of treating these deaths as front-page news during Trump’s presidency, ignoring them during Biden’s, and staying mostly silent about the recent dramatic decline.
3. Missing children: Who cares now?
Hellner also highlights the media’s shifting concern for unaccompanied migrant children. He writes that Democrats and the press claim to care about these children but ignore the more than 300,000 children lost—and potentially trafficked—during the Biden years. Meanwhile, he says, they don’t report on the 146,000 children recovered under Trump’s administration.
4. Hurricanes and fires: The climate narrative gap
The column takes issue with the media’s handling of extreme weather claims. Hellner contends that Atlantic hurricane activity has been extremely low since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and he says the number of hurricanes hitting U.S. shores since 2019 doesn’t support the ‘endless reports’ about human-caused climate change making storms more frequent or intense. He also argues that forest fires are not getting worse and that a significant number are set by people rather than driven by climate.
Hellner goes further, asserting that there is no direct correlation between human activity—oil, coal, natural gas, cars, cows, CO2—and temperatures, sea levels, floods, droughts, or fires. He calls the climate ‘cyclical through billions of years’ and suggests Democrats want the Green New Deal to control people, not the climate.
5. Crime: The good news nobody reports
Hellner points to crime statistics showing the murder rate at its lowest in 120 years of record-keeping, with other crimes also dropping. But he says the media, when they report this at all, claim they don’t know why. His answer: Trump’s administration is focused on getting career criminals off the streets and keeping dangerous criminals from crossing the border. He also highlights that mass killings have hit a twenty-year low—though you wouldn’t know it from the coverage.
The column also pushes back on gun control arguments, noting that Americans own about 506 million guns today, up from an estimated 400 million in 2019, yet crime has fallen—evidence, he says, that there is no correlation between gun numbers and violence.
6. Global terrorism: A quieter world
Finally, Hellner argues that Trump’s efforts to reduce wars and defund Iran, its proxies, and cartels are working, but the media won’t admit it. He cites figures showing global terrorist incidents and deaths fell significantly in 2025, reaching their lowest levels since 2007. Worldwide terrorism deaths dropped 28% to 5,582, and total attacks fell 22% to 2,944.
Instead of covering this good news, Hellner says, the media focused on a ‘stupid statement’ by a senator about Trump aide Natalie Harp—a deep dive he contrasts with the media’s treatment of Biden-era spokespeople like Jen Psaki, Karine Jean-Pierre, and officials like Merrick Garland.
The underlying claim
Hellner’s overarching argument is that the media’s selective reporting is not accidental but strategic: they will promote or hide facts depending on how they affect Trump’s standing. Whether readers agree with his characterization is a matter of perspective, but the examples he provides raise questions about how news outlets frame data and which stories they choose to amplify.
As he puts it, ‘Now more than ever, the ability to speak our minds is crucial to the republic we cherish.’
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/six-examples-of-the-media-s-get-trump-ethos-when-reporting-the-news/