“Worst polls ever!” or similarly hysterical headlines proclaimed legacy media’s sentiments across the board this week, as U.S. President Donald J. Trump reached his 100^th day in office. Some discredited legacy outlets, many of which conducted the very polls they are now reporting as “bad news” for the president, give him a popularity rating of somewhere between 39 percent and 45 percent. Naturally, they fail to mention that these numbers exceed those of former President Joe Biden at virtually all times between September 2021 and the end of his one-term presidency—a presidency they almost uniformly hailed as a great success.

This is, of course, the same crowd of “journalists” who proclaimed that Trump is “unfit to lead” and “dangerous in word, deed, and action.” They confidently predicted Trump would lose his reelection bid to Kamala Harris last November and his original election bid to Hillary Clinton in 2016. They told us Biden was “sharp as a tack” until just hours before the former president withdrew from the 2024 race in a state of utter cognitive dysfunction, the dimensions of which we are only now learning. They opined that Trump would be judicially barred from public office due to criminal allegations and that there was no politicization of the federal judiciary, civil service, or law enforcement. They falsely reported “Russiagate” as factual, called Trump a “traitor” and a “Russian agent,” advocated for the financial ruin of the Trump family, and, after hours of failing to report the July 2024 assassination attempt against him as such, disappeared searchable news of the crime—even as we still have few answers about exactly what happened or why.

They instructed us that free speech is a “problem,” that the First Amendment is a “challenge,” a “barrier,” and “out of control,” that the Constitution should be “torched,” and that words can be “violence” while actual violence is “not violence,” depending on the “context,” as it were.

They denied the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop and later, after its authenticity was established in court, dismissed concerns about him receiving a sweeping presidential pardon from his father. They censored people who suggested that COVID might have been manmade while putting blue state residents under needless near-house arrest for two years on the basis of scientific data that only an honest few later admitted was faulty. They tried to convince us that a 20 percent rise in consumer prices over four years and a $36 trillion national debt represented sound fiscal policies, while any attempt to repatriate manufacturing or equalize terms of trade was a radical destruction of the “rules-based” international order.

During the so-called “Summer of Love,” even while standing in front of burning buildings on national television, they floated an embarrassingly untrue narrative of “mostly peaceful protests” that resulted in an estimated 570 violent race riots, killed at least 25 Americans, and caused as much as $2.5 billion in damage. They valorized criminal illegal immigrants who, in some cases, raped and murdered American women and girls, while putting parents who dared dissent from DEI and radical gender ideology on FBI watchlists. They ruthlessly attempted to purge opposing viewpoints throughout public life but then derided attempts to enforce foundational civil rights laws over our colleges and universities as a “fascist takeover” on par with Nazi Germany.

Needless to say, the legacy media that gives Trump tepid poll ratings 100 days into a second administration that they all angrily opposed for many years are not inclined to report that a record high 69 percent of Americans told an October 2024 Gallup poll that their level of trust and confidence in the mass media rates “not very much” or “none at all.”

Even if polling were an accurate or objective measure of Trump’s performance, it would take hypocrisy of mainstream media proportions to deny his obvious successes. The two major issues Trump campaigned on and that Americans identified as most important—immigration and inflation—have both already been tackled.

The southern border is secure, with near total erasure of the illegal border crossings that were rampant under Biden. Some 135,000 illegal immigrants have been deported, despite establishment judicial interference. The farce of Biden-era “catch and release” is over. The highly successful “Remain in Mexico” policy, which Biden foolishly repealed, is back in force. In response to economic pressure, Mexico and Canada have stepped up their border interdiction efforts against illegals and drugs, while the U.S. continues to build the wall.

Trump’s economic policies have realized the first decline in consumer prices in three years, while crippling Biden-era inflation has begun to drop and unemployment has fallen even further. Elon Musk’s DOGE has reported $160 billion in savings, fired or suspended hordes of useless federal bureaucrats, and identified and cancelled scads of un- or anti-American DEI programs that poisoned our government.

Following the April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement on tariffs, 130 countries that need the U.S. far more than we need them have begged for new trade deals, with preliminary talks suggesting that future trade relations will be much more favorable to American exports. At the same time, Trump has secured over $1 trillion in foreign investments—a rate of $10 billion per day—which will return manufacturing and production jobs stateside, including for strategically vital industries like microchips.

In foreign policy, Trump has started the first meaningful negotiations toward peace in Ukraine, which appear to be reaching their final stages, crushed the Houthi radicals in the Red Sea region, brought Iran back to the negotiating table after years of derision and mockery, and motivated our European allies to devote resources to their defense and NATO obligations they previously shirked. At home, Americans are prouder, with about 40 percent now saying the country is on the right track, compared to an appalling 28 percent just over three months ago, when Biden was still in charge. Media-manufactured polling might give Trump lower numbers than slower and less decisive presidents, but his path—and his successes—are ringing loud and clear.