On March 13, 2026, Robert Reich appeared on MS NOW with Ali Velshi, who was filling in for Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word, and said this about Donald Trump and the media:
“Donald Trump, what he’s very good at, the one thing I’ll give him a lot of credit for is he understands the media. He understands how the public’s attention can be focused on one particular story, possibly two stories at the time, but nowhere beyond that. And as long as he can come up with a major story, the big thing that’s going to focus public attention, then he can relax a little bit because the public is not paying attention to the other things that are going on that he really does worry about.”
He literally said the public’s attention is limited to one story, maybe two, and nowhere beyond that.
It is textbook elitism and fake news. Many Americans follow dozens of major stories every single day: the Iran war, local and national news, crime, illegal immigration, crimes committed by illegal immigrants, terrorism, biological males invading women’s sports and locker rooms, child sex changes in the United States, international events, brutal human rights abuses inside Iran, voter fraud, abortion, border chaos, energy independence, government spending and debt, threats to Second Amendment rights, and much more.
We do not need one giant “major story” to spoon-feed us what to care about or limit our attention to one or two topics. Writing off the public as incapable of following more than a couple of headlines is not smart analysis. It is smug, condescending arrogance that grossly underestimates the intelligence, awareness, and attention span of Americans.
If Robert Reich and most Democratic voters ever visited my website, many of them would have a heart attack from information overload.
Democrats and the liberal news media are the ones who cannot handle more than two stories at a time. So they remain inside the fake news bubble, where media outlets echo a handful of stories and repeat Democrat propaganda every day.
The claim that Trump started a war with Iran to distract from the Epstein files is just more Democrat propaganda, and they are counting on viewers with a two-story attention span to believe it.
Yes, some Americans tune out the news. But they are not the majority.
Every day, Americans dig through primary sources, conduct their own investigations, watch raw footage, read unsealed court documents, track crime statistics, compare politicians’ votes to their promises, follow whistleblowers, monitor election developments, analyze government data, review public records, watch full interviews instead of soundbites, compare mainstream coverage to independent reporting, study legislation, check court filings, follow money trails, document false narratives, expose contradictions, and connect dots the legacy media refuse to touch.
Meanwhile, corporate, liberal, and public news outlets repeat Democrat propaganda, bury inconvenient facts, bring politicians on their shows to advance their narratives, and act as if the rest of the news does not exist. We are overloaded with information they deliberately suppress. The media and politicians are the ones with the limited attention span—not the American public.
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