Trump aide whines networks didn't show PowerPoint slides — that kneecapped arguments
December 18, 2025
One of Donald Trump’s top economic advisers went on MS NOW on Thursday morning, where he whined that the networks that covered the president’s rambling White House speech on Wednesday night failed to use a PowerPoint presentation that was supposed to beef up the president’s arguments.
That was an awkward complaint after CNN reported almost nine hours before that one slide in the presentation contradicted a central Trump claim.
Appearing on “Morning Joe,” in an attempt to calm Americans who are experiencing major economic pain despite the president’s sunny outlook, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett concluded the interview with a complaint. "You know, and I hate coming back with questions for you guys, but the president, in order to make sure that everybody understood the facts and the facts were documented, spent a lot of time with us, with our team preparing slides that that showed the data for what he was talking about in the speech and some networks while he was speaking, they showed the slides and in some networks they didn't.”
“And I just thought that was kind of unusual,” he lamented. “I was expecting when I was flipping around to just see the slides everywhere. Gosh, we spent so much time, more time on them.”
CNN reported just after the speech, that one key PowerPoint slide would have undercut Trump as he was speaking.
According to Brian Stelter, Fox News seemed to be the only major network willing to share the White House provided slides, despite the fact that, “One of the slides, showing gasoline prices for the past eight years, undercut Trump’s talking points about gas being under $2 in some places. The graphic titled 'National Average Gasoline Price' showed the national average is still near $3.”
CNN's Stelter added that Fox wisely attributed the graphic to the White House.
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