{"id":6305,"date":"2026-08-31T06:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2026-08-31T06:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:39:52","slug":"trump-urges-fcc-to-probe-media-polling-punish-nbc-moderator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6305","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges FCC to probe media polling, punish NBC moderator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with journalists and news organizations who publish stories he doesn\u2019t like, particularly those about his standing in the polls. Numerous recent polls show Trump has the lowest approval rating of either of his terms in office as the unpopular Iran war continues and gas prices remain high.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6303\">This Gen Xer spent 28 years in a cubicle and never made more than $70,000. At 59, she made $500,000 in the creator economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has increasingly used his animosity toward the press to seek action by the FCC, which controls broadcast licensing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The First Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly protects freedom of the press and freedom of speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump complained Sunday that something must be done about \u201cfake polls\u201d used by the news media. \u201cFCC TO THE RESCUE!\u201d he trumpeted in a\u00a0social media post. Polls are often sponsored by television networks or news organizations, but conducted by universities or polling companies over which the FCC has no control. The FCC also has no control over cable stations or print media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the same series of Sunday morning posts, the president also\u00a0lashed out\u00a0at Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em>, for saying his endorsements of Republican candidates in primary elections this year had shown mixed results. Earlier in the week, he attacked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for reporting that he was skipping the annual Sept. 11 commemoration in New York this year because he wouldn\u2019t have a speaking role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?\u201d Trump said of Welker\u2019s reporting. \u201cBecause of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6301\">Shein CEO\u2019s wealth slumps $15 billion after whittled-down IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short of canceling NBC\u2019s broadcast license, there\u2019s little the Trump administration can legally do to punish Welker for her reporting.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cKristen is one of the best in the business and we stand by her,\u201d an NBC spokesperson said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A handful of the candidates that Trump endorsed this year did not win their primaries or special elections. Some of his prominent endorsements, including the special election to elevate Darline Graham to replace her late brother, Lindsey Graham, in the Senate, did win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump urged the chairman of the FCC to follow up on his complaints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that Chairman Brendan Carr, and the fine people of his Commission, will take this Threat to our Country very seriously,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6299\">Warner Bros. axed \u2018Coyote vs. Acme\u2019 three years ago to take a tax write off. But it\u2019s finally in theaters after a public outcry\u2014and a box office hit<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president also\u00a0lashed out\u00a0at Kristen Welker, the moderator of NBC\u2019s\u00a0Meet the Press, for saying his endorsements of Republican candidates in primary elections this year had shown mixed results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump urges FCC to probe media polling, punish NBC moderator - Cross Country Moving Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=6305\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump urges FCC to probe media polling, punish NBC moderator - 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