White House official whines that non-Fox networks didn't show Trumps slides during address:We spent so much time on them

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Thursday 18 December 2025 16:18 EST


After the majority of broadcast and cable news networks opted not to use the slideshow presentation that the White House prepared for Donald Trump’s grievance-filled national address, the president’s economic adviser complained to Morning Joe about the omission because “we spent so much time” on them.

While grumbling about the lack of TV coverage for the White House’s PowerPoint presentation, Kevin Hassett confirmed earlier reporting by CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter that the administration had shared a set of slides with the networks and pressed them to air the graphics on screen.

In the end, the networks – outside of Fox News – decided against doing the slideshow, largely due to the White House not providing clear sourcing information.

Some of the slides that Fox News showed, which were labeled as “White House graphic,” actually tanked some of the president’s dishonest claims throughout his campaign-style address.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kevin-hassett-trump-address-speech-slides-b2887379.html

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Full headline: White House official whines that non-Fox networks didn’t show Trump’s slides during address: ‘We spent so much time’ on them

[Doodley]

1. This is pathetic! Hassett trying to explain Trump's lies: "Maybe he misspoke or something."

[Raven123]

2. That's just dumb

For his entire life, Trump has sought attention. He’s thrived on being in the spotlight. His administration scheduled this address at the last minute, as if there would some major announcement. They stood him up at a podium. Now they say he was narrating a slide show. That’s just dumb

[C Moon]

3. Oh boy. I hope SNL does their own slide show.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Just like they did Spicey and the Spice-mobile

they should come up with something that turbocharges a slide show!

[llmart]

4. I'm wondering...

Is he planning a State of the Union address in a few weeks or was this supposed to suffice? I didn't watch and have never watched anything with him on TV but if he is planning on doing it again, I guarantee it will just be a rerun of this same b.s.

However, having said that, I would surely watch if I knew he was going to get up there and say "I Quit".

[Deminpenn]

6. The speech was announced 2 days before it happened

It was completely unplanned and thrown together at the last minute. There's no way Hassett and company had time to put the required research in to produce a quality powerpoint presentation.

[tanyev]

12. But they had to work for TWO WHOLE DAYS!!

[barbtries]

17. it's easy when you don't need any facts

you just make it up and make it look good. there ya go

[underpants]

27. Good point. They never got beyond 5 pages of bullet points

from the initial “brainstorming” session.

F it, let’s just go with all of them.

[Chili Pepper]

7. I watched Hassett's interview on Morning Joe.

It turned out to be just a platform for Hassett to lie and spin with very little pushback from Scarborough and Lemire.

It was pathetic. I had to turn off MJ.

[Bengus81]

10. How's Morning Schmo and MeeKa doing? Haven't watched them now for over a year

and have zero plans to ever do so.

[Mc Mike]

8. tRump blubbers.

[Javaman]

9. rumor has it that the orange asshole didn't like them...

not enough sharpie.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Slide show was designed for less face-time

Hide the damaged goods is slick marketing

[LymphocyteLover]

13. LMAO!!!!!!! Like anyone could make sense of slides that went along with that coked up train wreck

[travelingthrulife]

25. Yeah...lots of snakes...and sharks...evil environmentalists...

[JohnnyRingo]

14. I can just imagine what that slide show was like.

A lot of low angle shots of him looking stalwart and brave in the face of boys in girls sports.

[underpants]

31. I'm surprised it wasn't selling gold or his bitcoin

That’s what OANN or Newsmax does at his actual rallies. Split screen.

God, talk radio ads are tons of gold ads including one with Jr. selling it.

[twodogsbarking]

15. Slide show? No wonder he falls asleep. Bring out the overhead projector, I need a nap.

[sop]

22. Slides? Who the fuck uses slides these days?

The last remaining Kodak Carousel slide projector probably stopped working thirty years ago.

[twodogsbarking]

24. I have one. Haven't used it in 35 years. Also have an 8mm with filmed movies. Same.

Trump is stuck in the 1980s. I've noticed.

[Iris]

16. My god. Like junior business majors at college

[underpants]

29. and just reading the material on each slide.

[Iris]

33. Exactly.

Pathetic

[mwb970]

18. Hassett has one of those punchable faces.

Watching him smirk endlessly while telling a string of dumb lies is supremely irritating. Where does trump find such annoying people? And so many of them!

[Ray Bruns]

19. "We spent so much time on them"

A statement so stupid it gets a Samual L Jackson “what”

[twodogsbarking]

20. Trump colored the slides and stayed within the lines when he was awake.

[underpants]

28. He did good. Good job (pays head)

Got his tongue right and everything 😋

[rickford66]

21. Did they air every Biden address ?

[sheshe2]

23. Meanwhile...

Meanwhile, the loud and angry speech left many viewers showing concern over the president’s sanity, likening Trump to Grandpa Simpson. “Old man yells at cloud,” at least one social media user noted.

[underpants]

26. It's a Presidential address. What, did he use crayons and scissored paper?

He worked soooo hard on them.
…and the STILL refuted him.

[C_U_L8R]

30. Simple, show your data and sources

Or STFU.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

32. "We used a whole box of crayons on those graphs!"