The Daily Blast: Trump’s Angry Tirade at Media Goes Haywire, Exposing a Dark MAGA Truth

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is furious over coverage of his Iran war. During a speech, he let out a rambling tirade at the media, and in a revealing turn, he talked about Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s latest threats to revoke network licenses. Trump went off script, spewing unhinged falsehoods about the press’s 2024 coverage and strangely declaring Carr’s campaign a great success while urging him to keep it up. This essentially confirmed that Trump does expect Carr to ramp up the use of government power to punish news organizations whose war coverage displeases him—something the MAGA movement fully wants. We talked to New Republic staff writer Matt Ford, author of a great piece on the need for post-Trump accountability. He explains the flimsy legal basis for Carr’s efforts, why they’re mostly failing, what all this shows about Trump-MAGA contempt for the Constitutional order, and the prospects for post-Trump accountability for his subordinates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:29.5	Donald Trump is very angry with the news media for not treating his war against Iran
0:31.7	as a series of world historical triumphs.
0:34.7	So he's got his Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr out there,
0:39.4	threatening to use government power against media companies to keep them in line.
0:45.1	Trump just let out a rambling tirade about this, hailing Carr's work, and in effect,
0:50.2	praising him for undertaking grotesque abuses of power.
0:54.6	Truthfully, Trump's whole authoritarian project would not be possible without underlings like
0:59.7	car to help advance it for him.
1:01.7	So what are the prospects for accountability for this sort of public misconduct later?
1:07.1	We're talking about this with New Republic staff writer Matt Ford, who has a great new piece laying out what a real reckoning for Trump and his accomplices should look like after this is all over.
1:17.6	Matt, great to have you on, man.
1:19.3	Thanks for having me.
1:20.9	Okay, so this started when FCC chair Brendan Carr put out a tweet recently, threatening broadcasters.
1:27.2	He said they must course correct or
1:29.1	potentially not get their broadcast licenses renewed. He insisted that the law dictates that they must
1:34.9	operate in the public interest or lose their licenses. This not coincidentally came right after
1:40.3	Trump attacked the media coverage of his war. Matt, this is confusing, but it's really the local networks that have licenses.
1:47.5	The big companies do have to worry about the locals losing licenses,
1:51.2	but can you explain the basic legal case that Brendan Carr thinks he's making here
1:55.9	and why it's so absurd?
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