Donald Trump does not like a New Surveys that Show its popularity by eroding. In a Post social postHe says that the press companies that have published them should face “electoral fraud” surveys.
This is the kind of thing Trump said several times. Until recently, it was easy to ignore. After all, it is certainly not fraud to publish a survey that someone does not like.
RIGHT?
Except, of course, things are different now: Trump is already continuing the register of monks, its owner Gannett, and the sounder Ann Selzer For having published a survey, he did not like in the elections in 2024.
Trump filed this prosecution after winning the elections last year, but before he was sworn in as president in January. And since the inauguration of Trump, Brendan Carr, the choice of Trump to direct the Federal Commission Commission, announced probes on Disney And Comcast on their diversity, their actions and their inclusion practices.
Carr also opened an investigation into a Interview which took place last year on the “60 minutes” of Paramount / CBS with Kamala Harris. It is theoretically separated, but quite parallel, to a trial that Trump brought in 2024 during the same interview. This story drew new attention last week when Bill Owens, the best producer at “60 minutes”, said he resigned because he had lost his editorial independence. Subsequent reports said The owner of Paramount, Shari Redstone, who wants to sell his business to Larry and David Ellisonhad weighed on the programming of the show and CBS News in general.
SO. On the one hand, you would be apologized for having ignored a publication on the social networks of a president who says things on social networks and elsewhere that he may not say – or can mean at some point but then decide that he does not mean, after all. (Trump now says that his promise to resolve the war between Russia and Ukraine in his first day in power – something he raised dozens of times in 2024 and 2023 – was done “jokingly. “)
You might also emphasize that even if Trump is serious, it is not clear which federal or civil servant agency could achieve its wishes. Although Carr can theoretically weigh on Comcast and paramount because they have dissemination licenses, the FCC has no monitoring of time or message. (I asked Carr and the White House to comment.)
But one thing we learn on 2025 is that things that Trump writes or says – even if they are illogical or impossible – are sometimes transformed into action, anyway.
If I run a media organization – or just someone who thinks that the federal government should not threaten media organizations because it doesn’t like what they are publishing – I would not completely brush this.