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Subject: Trump's First 100 Days: A Study In "Fake News", Hoaxes, And Misleading Headlines
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President Donald Trump is no stranger to antagonistic media figures, often 
calling them out directly or through members of his administration.

As he reaches the 100th day of his second administration, here is a look back 
at some of the hoaxes, misleading headlines, and "fake news" stories that have 
circulated since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

The Trump Rapid Response team kicked off the administration's second week with 
a list of several hoaxes that had already taken root across multiple platforms 
and outlets.

The first one involved regular Trump-bashers Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. 
Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who claimed, along with several media outlets, that 
President Trump was going to gut Medicaid and other assistance programs under 
the guise of cutting wasteful and fraudulent spending.

	FACT: Individual assistance programs -- Social Security, Medicare, 
	Medicaid, SNAP, etc. -- are explicitly excluded, as was made clear 
	by @PressSec and OMB. Only unnecessary spending -- DEI, Green New 
	Scam, NGOs that undermine the national interest -- are included in 
	the directive. pic.twitter.com/DZrUQAXVns

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 29, 2025

According to the Office of Management and Budget, however, Trump's plan to cut 
waste, fraud, and abuse from government spending would not touch programs that 
provide "direct benefits to Americans" such as Social Security, Medicare, 
Medicaid, and SNAP, among others.

The second was a claim perpetuated by Chicago Public Schools and Governor JB 
Pritzker (D-IL) that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had 
raided an elementary school. Even the Chicago Tribune ran a story on the 
alleged "raid" without first verifying the veracity of the claim.

	FACT: It was actually the U.S. Secret Service investigating a 
	threat unrelated to immigration. pic.twitter.com/FlPPV0TLmy

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 29, 2025

The so-called "raid" turned out to be a Secret Service investigation into a 
potential threat that had nothing to do with immigration.

The third was an attempt to undermine the still pending confirmation of Health 
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and alleged that a 
"physicians advocacy group" had come out in opposition to the nomination.

	FACT: The "advocacy group" is really an astroturfed partisan 
	organization funded by prominent left-wing donors -- and accepts 
	fake signatures.https://t.co/ZIxBARZ9v7

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 29, 2025

That advocacy group turned out to be an astroturfed organization backed by 
left-wing activist and billionaire Bill Gates.

By the time Kennedy's first hearing on Capitol Hill came around, media outlets 
were prepared -- they even sent reporters to cover the hearing with their 
negative headlines prewritten before the questions started to fly.

	FACT: This has been repeatedly debunked by Kennedy himself -- 
	describing himself as neither "anti-vaccine or anti-industry," 
	but "pro-safety."

	In reality, like Pres. Trump, he simply wants to enable Americans 
	to make informed medical decisions for themselves and their families.
	
	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 29, 2025

Trump took a HuffPost reporter to task on Air Force One over claims that his 
administration would ignore Supreme Court rulings they did not like: "I don't 
know even what you're talking about. Neither do you. Who are you with?"

"HuffPost, Sir," was the reply.

"No wonder. I thought they died."

	President Trump demolishes Fake News "reporter" @svdate on Air 
	Force One:

	POTUS: "I don't know even what you're talking about. Neither do you. 
	Who are you with?"@svdate: "HuffPost, sir."

	POTUS: "No wonder. I thought they died." pic.twitter.com/kNB0359aJA

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 9, 2025

Senator Amy Klobuchar claimed -- with no resistance from CNN anchor Dana Bash 
-- that the Trump administration was putting a stop to Head Start and 
terminating cancer research.

	Amy Klobuchar claims the Trump Administration is "stopping Head 
	Start" (a complete lie) and cutting cancer research (also a complete 
	lie).

	Predictably, zero pushback from Fake News CNN. 
	pic.twitter.com/Q18gxcCU8Y

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 16, 2025

Trump took aim at ABC News during the swearing-in ceremony for Commerce 
Secretary Howard Lutnick, asking first, "Who do you work for?"

"ABC News."

"No wonder," Trump shot back. "I have, today, the highest poll numbers I've 
ever had ... They like the job I'm doing... We're finding billions and billions 
of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse."

	President Trump SHUTS DOWN Fake News @ABC reporter:

	"Who do you work for?"

	"ABC News."

	"No wonder... I have, today, the highest poll numbers I've ever had... 
	They like the job I'm doing... We're finding billions and billions of 
	dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse." [flames]
        pic.twitter.com/ut7XvmbY4Y

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 21, 2025

In late February, Reuters ran with a story claiming that Trump's foreign aid 
freeze had stopped the progress of a United Nations program that was intended 
to help stop the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs from crossing the 
southern border.

	US President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled 
	a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported 
	fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, 
	according to eight people familiar with the situation 
	https://t.co/UpDolZ2VUa pic.twitter.com/vpq6av1VfU

	-- Reuters (@Reuters) February 24, 2025

Trump's team said otherwise: "Fake News: The State Department is actually 
trying to expand the initiative. Stop lying."

	Fake News. The State Department is actually trying to expand the 
	initiative.

	Stop lying. https://t.co/AXWLvI1j1Z

	-- Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 25, 2025

CNN attempted to "fact check" a claim from the Department of Government 
Efficiency (DOGE) that under former President Joe Biden, $8 million had been 
dumped into a study that attempted to make mice transgender. Trump's team 
responded with receipts.

	The Fake News losers at CNN tried to fact check President Trump 
	saying Biden spent $8 million on "making mice transgender," but 
	President Trump was right (as usual).

	FACT: Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of 
	Health doled outmillions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for 
	institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments 
	on mice.

	$455,000: "A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming 
	Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses"

	$2,500,000: "Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone 
	Administration" -- "These mice manifest defects in ovarian 
	architecture and have altered folliculogenesis."

	$299,940: "Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer 
	Risk and Treatment Outcomes" -- "We will compare the incidences and 
	tumor specific survival in female mice (intact) and oophorectomized 
	female mice receiving TT with their respective counterparts that do 
	not receive TT."

	$735,113: "Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone 
	therapy in mice"

	$1,200,000: "Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine 
	axis" -- "Aim 2 utilizes transgenic mice to test whether male-level 
	androgens acting via AR specifically in kisspeptin neurons are 
	necessary and/or sufficient for androgen inhibition of in vivo LH 
	pulse parameters, including pulse frequency, and the estrogen-induced 
	LH surge."

	$3,100,000: "Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender 
	influences in asthma" -- "We will study the contributions of 
	estrogens to HDM-induced asthma outcomes using male and female 
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