One of President Donald Trump's more astounding claims during his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night ended with egg on the face of "Fake News losers" at CNN when they tried to fact-check him.

"$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of," he said during the address. "$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in central America, $60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender. This is real!"

CNN reporters initially said the claim was false and said they could not determine where the president came up with the $8 million figure. Eventually, the article was corrected to say the claim "needed context" and deleted the content calling it false.

"An earlier version of this item incorrectly characterized as false Trump's claim about federal money being spent for 'making mice transgender.' The article has been updated with context about the spending, which was for research students on the potential human health impacts of treatments used in gender-affirming care," the article read.

The two versions were posted to social media by the popular "Libs of TikTok" account.

CNN was mocked and ridiculed by many on over the gaffe, but then the White House pounced on the news outlet.

"Under the Biden Administration, the National Institutes of Health doled out millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants for institutions across the country to perform transgender experiments on mice," they added.

The post went on to document various programs that experimented with making mice transgender, including nearly half a million dollars for "A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses," and $735,000 for "Microbiome mediated effects of gender affirming hormone therapy in mice."

The Associated Press was forced to withdraw one of its Monday articles after it falsely claimed that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin "very good friends."

The now-retracted article incorrectly reported that Gabbard said Trump and Putin are "focused on strengthening ties." However, Gabbard was not referring to Trump's relationship with Putin but rather to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Gabbard's misrepresented quotes were taken from an interview with India's NDTV released Monday.

"The ties between our two countries, the United States and India, go very, very far back," she told NDTV. "What we're continuing to see is a strengthening of that partnership and recognizing that the mutual interests of both of our countries are centered around peace, prosperity, freedom, and security."

"We have two leaders of our two great countries who are very good friends and are very focused on how we can strengthen those shared objectives and those shared interests," Gabbard added.

The AP article, titled "Gabbard says Trump and Putin are 'very good friends' focused on strengthening ties," was retracted from its website and replaced with a statement declaring that the outlet had decided to withdraw the story.

AP means Asshole Perverts.

Quote from: Herman on March 28, 2025, 03:10:21 PM

It's this sort of thing under the Liberals that has the world wondering what the hell is going on in Canada.

Quote from: Herman on March 28, 2025, 03:10:21 PM

Buying media favorability was the second most blatant action by the Trudeau government to control free speech. Use of the Emergencies Act was first.

Congress is actively debating defunding PBS and NPR — and thank goodness. The networks are leftist propaganda mills.

Quote from: DKG on March 30, 2025, 10:11:41 AMCongress is actively debating defunding PBS and NPR — and thank goodness. The networks are leftist propaganda mills.

They do pledge drives almost constantly so I say let them get defunded and rely only on the idiots that donate to them.

Quote from: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on March 30, 2025, 10:58:21 AMThey do pledge drives almost constantly so I say let them get defunded and rely only on the idiots that donate to them.

The last time I watched a program on PBS, they spent as much time panhandling viewers as it took to air the program.

Quote from: DKG on March 31, 2025, 06:51:50 AMThe last time I watched a program on PBS, they spent as much time panhandling viewers as it took to air the program.

Exactly, at this point they're irrelevant and not worth the time.

I saw the CBC say they were "relieved" that the Liberals held onto a seat in PEI.