Trump: NBC's Welker to be Reported to FCC

Reporting a "Meet the Press" host to the FCC because you didn't like her framing of your endorsement record is not a strategy, it's a mood. And it's the wrong one. The FCC does not exist to referee whether a Sunday show anchor was fair to a sitting president's win-loss record on primary endorsements. That's not a regulatory question. That's a media criticism, and there's a whole apparatus for that already: it's called saying so on Truth Social, giving interviews to friendlier outlets, or just letting the results speak for themselves.

The frustrating part is that Trump often has a real point buried in these outbursts. Coverage of his endorsements has been selectively brutal at times, cherry-picking the losses while burying the wins in a single line down in paragraph nine. That's a legitimate gripe, and conservatives are right to call it out when it happens. But turning a legitimate gripe into a threat of government "rebuke or punishment" hands his critics exactly the narrative they want: that he sees federal power as a tool for settling scores with reporters he doesn't like.

We've said this before and we'll keep saying it. The answer to biased coverage is more scrutiny, more competing outlets, and a press that has to earn trust back the hard way. It is not an FCC complaint against a single anchor for a single Sunday broadcast. That road leads somewhere no conservative should want to go, because the next president who picks up that tool won't be one of ours.