Vittert Tells Nation to Take Media with an ‘Enormous Grain of Salt’

Shannon Sauders | July 3, 2025
Font Size

The left-wing media specializes in fearmongering the public about President Trump’s policy decisions, but NewsNation’s On Balance with Leland Vittert displayed the opposite on Wednesday night. Vittert had powerful words to describe the reflection of the media over the last six months and stuck with a theme of the liberal media needing to be “taken with an enormous grain of salt.” 

With no surprise, Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has brought backlash from the left-wing media. Vittert highlighted that the media will talk about “doomsday scenarios” but pointed out the media’s tactic patterns of misleading the public in the last six months and summarized:  

For example, think of all the things we've been told since President Trump's second term started. Most of the American media told you that Trump would govern like Nazi dictator. He hasn’t. We didn't tell you that. We told you what he was doing and why. You were told your 401k would go down the drain because of tariffs. We didn't tell you that. We told you to wait and see because Trump offense takes out maximalist positions and then retreats... Most of the media told you an attack on Iran would start World War 3. I didn't tell you that. I told you the opposite. We told you the world would be a safer place in the Ayatollah would sue for peace. We were told air travel is not safe. Planes were going to fall from the sky. You couldn't travel on planes this summer. And guess what? Everything's just fine. You're going to get to your July 4th barbecue without a problem. 

Click here for the full story.