{"id":78189,"date":"2026-09-02T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/trumps-threat-against-an-nbc-journalist-is-an-attack-on-reality-margaret-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:55:38","slug":"trumps-threat-against-an-nbc-journalist-is-an-attack-on-reality-margaret-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/trumps-threat-against-an-nbc-journalist-is-an-attack-on-reality-margaret-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s threat against an NBC journalist is an attack on reality | Margaret Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s call for the FCC to scrutinize Kristin Welker\u2019s innocuous remarks is a sign of desperation<\/p>\n<p>With his approval ratings tanking, the crucial midterm elections looming, and his war with Iran turning into a quagmire, Donald Trump has entered full freak-out mode.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not hard to tell. Just look at what happened this week when he lashed out at Kristen Welker, the well-respected host of NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, and one of the best-known journalists in the nation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/02\/trump-nbc-fcc-kristin-welker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s call for the FCC to scrutinize Kristin Welker\u2019s innocuous remarks is a sign of desperation With his approval ratings tanking, the crucial midterm elections looming, and his war with Iran turning into a quagmire, Donald Trump has entered full freak-out mode. It\u2019s not hard to tell. Just look at what happened this week &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s threat against an NBC journalist is an attack on reality | Margaret Sullivan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/trumps-threat-against-an-nbc-journalist-is-an-attack-on-reality-margaret-sullivan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s threat against an NBC journalist is an attack on reality | Margaret Sullivan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}