President Trump walked into Norah O’Donnell’s chair at Mar-a-Lago and walked out having owned the narrative, and the networks know it. CBS aired a tightly edited 28-minute piece on Sunday but quietly posted a much longer 73-minute extended interview and transcript online so the public could see the parts they’d trimmed for television.
Greg Gutfeld and the Gutfeld! panel didn’t waste time pointing out what every honest observer saw: this wasn’t just an interview, it was a reversal of the old media order. Gutfeld called it “restorative justice,” and other Fox voices praised the president’s calm confidence and called the whole appearance a deliberate power flex — exactly how a successful leader handles hostile media.
What came through in the uncut exchanges was Trump refusing to be bullied: he told CBS he won’t be “extorted” into reopening government funding and made clear he won’t cave on bargaining chips the Democrats want to use. Those remarks mattered because the country is watching a shutdown drag on and hardworking Americans deserve a president with backbone, not someone who folds under pressure.
CBS’s on-air edit left out several heated moments, including a testy back-and-forth about a controversial pardon and Trump’s blunt comments about the payout from Paramount over the earlier Harris dispute — edits that expose how networks pick and choose which version of the truth they want the public to see. Once again the so-called guardians of the “news” decide what’s palatable, and conservatives are right to call them out for shaping, not reporting, the story.
That selective editing is not new for CBS; conservatives remember how the network handled the Harris interview and how pressure finally forced transcripts into the light. The difference this time is that CBS released more raw material — proving that when the public demands transparency, these institutions can be forced to reveal their work, but only after they’ve tried to control the spin.
Fox hosts like Gutfeld aren’t timid about saying what needs to be said: the legacy media lost privilege the moment they betrayed unbiased reporting, and now they have to earn trust back. Conservative media didn’t invent skepticism of the press; we simply refuse to let powerful institutions get away with manipulating the record while lecturing honest Americans about reality.
So let this be a wake-up call to every patriot who still believes in fair play and truth: stand with leaders who defend American interests and back the outlets that refuse to bow to liberal narratives. President Trump showed strength and clarity where the mainstream media offered spin, and conservative voices — loud, unapologetic, and unafraid — must keep hammering that truth until it sinks in for every hardworking American.
