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A journalist pointed out that Trump's speech revealed what angered him much more than election meddling.

During an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, executive editor Hugh Dougherty looked back at Trump's Thursday night speech on election security. Trump had touted it as a "primetime" speech earlier in the week, and what left him fuming more than election meddling was how it was snubbed by major television networks like ABC and NBC.

"That's the thing that really angered him," Dougherty said. "He wanted this speech to be on prime time. There's nothing he loves more than being on prime time. There's nothing he loves more than ratings, and he was boycotted. Effectively, he was switched off."...

A top FCC official pushed back Friday on President Donald Trump's demand that the agency revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC after the networks refused to air his primetime address, according to reports.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the FCC, made her position known in a post on X.

"It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties, especially when the remarks were still available to anyone who wanted to watch them online," Gomez wrote. ...

Political observers were shocked over the weekend after a new poll revealed what one reporter called "the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms."

Jake Sherman, the founder of Punchbowl News, flagged the NBC poll on Sunday morning.

"NBC POLL. And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms," he wrote....

CNN's Dana Bash defended a rival network on "Inside Politics" after President Donald Trump used his platform at Tuesday's NATO summit to admonish the news media for reporting on an initial intelligence assessment of his strikes on Iran.

Bash recounted the early assessment made by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which reported the strikes didn't completely "obliterate" Iran's nuclear sites, as Trump has been claiming.

"That did not sit well with the president, who jumped on a few reporters during his press conference, including our friend Kelly O'Donnell at NBC, who is asking questions about that single initial assessment," Bash said before playing a clip of Trump's takedown....

MSNBC political contributor Steve Benen argued in a new article that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "still hasn't gotten it together," despite President Donald Trump's assertion that he eventually would.

In April, Trump told The Atlantic, "I think he’s gonna get it together,” after editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg listed Hegseth's failings: "he’s fired three top advisers in recent weeks, he rotated out his chief of staff, he installed a makeup studio at the Pentagon, he put attack plans in two different Signal chats, including one with his wife and personal attorney."

Benen wrote that Trump's prediction might prove true in the future, "but the hapless Pentagon chief apparently hasn’t gotten it together just yet."...

Donald Trump lied about a variety of subjects in his latest NBC interview, according to a report from Rolling Stone.

Trump has largely avoided in-person news interviews since he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. But the president-elect ended that streak with a well-publicized interview in which NBC host Kristen Welker pushed back on Trump after he claimed that gangs of immigrants were "taking over."

That same interview contained a variety of lies, according to Rolling Stone's reporting about what they say are his "biggest lies."...