Despite the first six months of Donald Trump’s current term being among the most active ever, most of the mainstream media prefer to report stories they think are damaging to him, while downplaying or even ignoring any that are supportive.

Since at least his first term, some major US media outlets, from the New York Times down, have joined the propaganda arm of a now unrecognisable and increasingly far-left Democratic party. As Mr Trump says, they are ‘fake news’.

When it comes to him, the media of other Western countries, including Australia, too often follow the US media. They become quickly identifiable as tainted when they automatically qualify as ‘false’ President Trump’s arguable claim that the 2020 election was rigged. More recently, the mainstream media played down the extraordinary revelation by the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, that there is ‘irrefutable evidence’ that after the 2016 election of President Trump, outgoing President Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence assessment they knew full well from expert briefings to be totally false.

This was that ‘Russia interfered in the election to help President Trump win’, presenting this to the American people as though it were true. Manufacturing findings ‘from shoddy sources’, they included Hillary Clinton’s infamous Steele Dossier, which falsely claimed Donald Trump arranged for the Russians to influence the election. So, withholding the truth from the American people, they ‘conspired to subvert ‘the will of the electors. Working with ‘their partners in the media to promote this lie’, they launched ‘a years-long coup’ against President Trump.

While mainstream journalists seem relieved to claim Obama is protected by presidential immunity and is, anyway, immaculate, a close reading of the recent Supreme Court opinion certainly does not give him a blank cheque.

The matter is now under investigation by a strike force appointed by the Attorney-General with some well-intentioned Republicans unwisely calling for an endless special counsel investigation. A Senate hearing, subpoenaing Barack Obama, offers more possibilities.

Another example of Trump’s favourable news being downplayed is the One Big Beautiful Bill, (OBBB).

Much media coverage concentrates on the Democrat claim it is ‘only about’ enriching billionaires and stripping support from the poor. In fact, it will be crucial in determining whether the world is to remain free or be dominated by communist China and its communist-Islamist axis.

It comes on top of the other earlier achievements – the closing of the borders, dismissed as impossible; denying Tehran nuclear weapons, something no other president could achieve; the ‘Take It Down Act’ to combat non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes; as well as the $9 billion, so far, in spending cuts.

Among the OBBB achievements are  blocking a scheduled and massive $4 trillion dollars tax hike, new tax cuts including  no taxes on tips, overtime or social security; massive investments in border security,  the military, and the Coast Guard; a massive  spectrum auction to boost 6G development ahead of China and reduce the deficit; air  traffic control modernisation; funding Nasa to beat China to the Moon where a Russo-Chinese base is planned; protecting the right to choose whether to have an electric car; an historic federal school choice program which will raise fallen literacy and numeracy standards; and the creation of ‘Trump accounts’, investment accounts in stock for every American child to be available when they are 18, creating generations of investors who should respect free enterprise.

How many Americans or foreigners learned even of this list from the media?

Instead, the current major theme of the mainstream media involves yet another attempt to bring down Donald Trump.

This is their claim that Maga support for him is crumbling.

The first example was over President Trump’s long-standing determination that Iran’s mullahs never have a nuclear weapon. This involved the bombing of Iranian underground facilities.

According to the media, this alienated large numbers of his supporters because of their distaste for war, potentially even a world war. Numerous outlets, including the Associated Press, SBS, and Al Jazeera, used extreme terms like ‘split,’ ‘schism’, or ‘divided’ to describe the reaction within President Trump’s base.

The reporting specifically named figures like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie as being far more critical to Maga than they ever were or presently are, centring their arguments that this violated his campaign promise to end ‘forever wars’ and put ‘America First’.

The critics had ignored President Trump’s well known ability to avoid long or even medium-term military involvements alongside his overriding long-term policy that Iran must never have nuclear weapons

In fact, the Iran intervention was, on any terms, a brilliant success.

The second affair where the media claimed a significant part of the Maga base was alienated was the failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files relating to the convicted offender involved in the sex trafficking of underage girls.

There are suggestions that Epstein maintained a ‘client list’ that could be used for blackmail and that President Trump would be embarrassed by information in the files. But as Senator Cruz pointed out, the Biden administration had access to the same files. While they had no hesitation in using anything they could to block President Trump’s candidature, they never did that in relation to Epstein. One can only assume there is nothing that President Trump should be concerned about there.

And in any event, a perusal of July polls on Republican voters percentage support for Trump shows the media is totally wrong: Marquette Law School-86; Gallop-89 and Fox 88.