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Shop NowSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth absolutely savaged the mainstream media in response to bias data compiled by the Media Research Center, which showed that he had received a staggering 100% negative coverage by the big three major networks: ABC News CBS News, and NBC News.
Hegseth first gave a hilarious response in a post on X, sharing the graphic of the mainstream media outlets’ coverage of himself, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk. While Hegseth received 100% negative coverage, Kennedy only received 89% negative coverage and Musk only received 96% negative coverage.
“In case you wonder what we — and President Trump — are up against. 100% NEGATIVE coverage from so-call[ed] ‘mainstream’ press in the first 100 days. PERFECT SCORE,” Hegseth joked.
He then jokingly mocked Kennedy and Musk, writing: “you guys can do better!”
In case you wonder what we — and President Trump — are up against.
100% NEGATIVE coverage from so-call “mainstream” press in the first 100 days. PERFECT SCORE.
(Come on @RobertKennedyJr & @elonmusk , you guys can do better!) pic.twitter.com/uYi2ebI0RG
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) April 30, 2025
Hegseth further elaborated on the issue during the White House Cabinet meeting on April 30, which was open to the media. There, the defense secretary offered a guess as to why the mainstream media’s coverage of him was so overwhelmingly negative — telling President Donald Trump and other cabinet officials: “We’re controversial because we’re OVER the target!”
He went on to lay out numerous improvements that the U.S. military has made under his leadership and since Trump took office, highlighting record-setting recruitment numbers and pointing out that the military’s response to Hegseth was much more positive than the mainstream media’s response.
. @SecDef presented @POTUS with all the accomplishments that the DOD have achieved in the last 100 days:
"I think we’re controversial because we’re OVER the target!" pic.twitter.com/GnznUoK1UE
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) April 30, 2025
According to The Daily Wire, “The data compiled by MRC covered the time frame from January 20 to April 9 and excluded comments made by expressly partisan guests, only including evaluative statements made by people who were expected to be nonpartisan: anchors, reporters, and experts. In addition to finding that Hegseth’s coverage — beginning even before he was confirmed as Defense Secretary — was 100% negative, the same data revealed that coverage of President Donald Trump was 92% negative. Based on the same criteria, coverage of former President Joe Biden — during the first several months of his presidency in 2021 — was 59% positive.”
