From our watchtower here at the Media Research Center, we have identified a recent and nasty trend emerging from the Elitist Media. It’s called “Trumpwashing”: that phenomenon wherein the media withhold covering some Democrat scandal until President Donald Trump opines on it, with President Trump’s statement being covered as if it were the scandal, rather than the underlying and until now suppressed Democrat event.
The latest instance of a Trumpwashed scandal: the video, published by six Democrat members of Congress calling on members of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Agencies to disobey unspecified “illegal” orders. The media held their tongues on the video until Trump spoke up, and the rest is history.
As an evidentiary sample, we submit for your consideration the totality of the Trumpwashed report aired on NBC Nightly News:
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
11/20/25
6:37 PM
TOM LLAMAS: Now to the outrage from Democrats after President Trump lashed out, saying some of them should be arrested and even put to death. The White House defending the president tonight. Here's Garrett Hake.
GARRETT HAAKE: President Trump facing outrage from Democrats tonight after demanding the arrest of a half- dozen democratic lawmakers, suggesting they be executed for posting this video…
MARK KELLY: You want to speak directly to members of the military?
HAAKE: …where six Democrats, all with national security backgrounds, urged members of the military to disobey any illegal orders from President Trump.
ELISSA SLOTKIN: No one has to carry out orders that violate the law…
CHRISSY HOULAHAN: …or our Constitution.
HAAKE: Referring to the video, President Trump writing: “seditious behavior from traitors. Lock them up.” And, “seditious behavior, punishable by death.” Later reposting a comment in which someone wrote, quote, “hang them. George Washington would.” Democrats condemning the comments, calling for extra security for the members involved.
CHRIS MURPHY: This is perhaps the most reckless, irresponsible thing that he has done all Congress, and it's going to get a lot of us killed. We have kids.
NANCY CORDES: Does the president want to execute members of Congress?
KAROLINE LEAVITT: No.
HAAKE: The White House firing back.
LEAVITT: You're suggesting, Nancy, that the- the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. And to, to suggest and encourage that active duty service members defy their chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do, and they should be held accountable, and that's what the president wants to see.
HAAKE: And tonight, Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who appears in the video, said she has received close to a thousand threats, and now has 24/7 security. Tom.
LLAMAS: All right, Garrett. Thank you.
