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Watching the mainstream media flail over the basics of last night’s State of the Union felt like watching a bad rehearsal of partisan theater. Megyn Kelly’s clip calling out David Muir and ABC for bungling who President Trump actually shook hands with is more than petty theater; it’s proof that the legacy press would rather score political points than report the facts straight to the American people. The public deserves reporters who can tell raw events plainly, not anchors who tinker with the narrative to spare the left’s feelings.
President Trump’s address on February 25, 2026 stretched into record territory, and one unmistakable moment came before he even took the podium: he personally greeted the justices seated in front of him. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Elena Kagan were in attendance and the president shook their hands as he entered the chamber.
This isn’t a trivial detail. The handshake was a loaded, deliberate gesture after a Supreme Court ruling on tariffs that the president publicly called “very unfortunate,” and the justices reacted with stone-faced silence as he discussed the decision. When network anchors miss or misstate those simple facts, it’s not incompetence alone — it’s an assault on the truth that handicaps citizens trying to judge events for themselves.
David Muir and his ABC colleagues have history when it comes to soft-pedaling or dismissing conservative grievances, so reporters pretending surprise at being called out is disingenuous. Muir himself has been in the crosshairs before for how he framed Trump’s criticisms and debate coverage, which only deepens the impression that Selective outrage and sloppy reporting have become institutional at some outlets.
Beyond the handshake flap, the night showed the real drama: a president unapologetically pushing for America First policies while Democrats staged walkouts and theatrical protests. Republican lawmakers and guests — the people who actually back the administration’s agenda — cheered, while parts of the gallery turned into a performance space for partisan grievance, and the networks scrambled to assign blame instead of covering what mattered to hardworking Americans.
If the media wants to regain credibility with everyday patriots, it should start by reporting the truth without spin and stop treating every headline as an opportunity to rehabilitate a political class the country is rightly fed up with. Call out the mistakes, own them, and move on — or step aside and let honest journalism return to the podium. America doesn’t need more narrative-control agents; it needs reporters who respect the people and the plain facts.
