Oct 5, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
When the networks try to drive President Trump's approval rating as low as possible, they avoid presenting any positive news. In the first term, they routinely skipped good news. Now we've compiled…
Curtis HouckGuest
Tim GrahamHostCraig BannisterGuest
I wanted to start with, uh, an article Craig wrote called Five Economic Facts the Media Don't Want You to Know.
You know, in my ancient book, Pattern of Deception, they did this in the '92 campaign.
They had robust economic growth in the second and third quarter, and they were like, "Many independent economists say this doesn't really mean anything."
President Trump's 2025 tax cut bill lowered the average household's taxes by nearly $3,000.
But yes, uh, the media have, uh, and Democrats have, even to this day are vilifying the big beautiful bill.
Uh, but tax cuts were about to expire and, uh, took extraordinary, uh, measures, but the Trump administration did, uh, save the average household $2,900.
Now the Democrats running against in the midterms, Curtis, are calling it the big ugly bill.
Yeah, the working family's tax cut, uh, is, is a moniker that some of the Republicans have adopted instead to specifically talk about the tax provisions.
Um, y- I, I do think it is interesting that, yeah, in a lot of cases there it was really extending previous tax cuts that already existed from the first Trump administration.
I wanted to start with, uh, an article Craig wrote called Five Economic Facts the Media Don't Want You to Know.
You know, in my ancient book, Pattern of Deception, they did this in the '92 campaign.
They had robust economic growth in the second and third quarter, and they were like, "Many independent economists say this doesn't really mean anything."
President Trump's 2025 tax cut bill lowered the average household's taxes by nearly $3,000.
But yes, uh, the media have, uh, and Democrats have, even to this day are vilifying the big beautiful bill.
Uh, but tax cuts were about to expire and, uh, took extraordinary, uh, measures, but the Trump administration did, uh, save the average household $2,900.
Now the Democrats running against in the midterms, Curtis, are calling it the big ugly bill.
Yeah, the working family's tax cut, uh, is, is a moniker that some of the Republicans have adopted instead to specifically talk about the tax provisions.
Um, y- I, I do think it is interesting that, yeah, in a lot of cases there it was really extending previous tax cuts that already existed from the first Trump administration.
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