CNN tries to dunk on President Trump, but completely misses the obvious irony
By Easton Martin | December 9, 2025
CNN’s recent article claiming to show how Donald Trump frequently blames President Biden for economic and foreign policy problems unintentionally revealed more about CNN than it did about Trump. The piece treats Trump’s repeated mentions of Biden as striking or excessive, yet it does so from a network that has built years of political coverage around one central figure: Trump himself. That irony sets the tone for what follows.
For years, Donald Trump has served as the media’s preferred political villain, and no outlet has leaned into that role more consistently than CNN. The network’s latest critique, arguing that Trump “can’t stop blaming Biden” for economic and foreign policy problems, lands with a heavy dose of irony.
While CNN presents Trump’s fixation on President Biden as unusual or troubling, the network itself has spent nearly a decade centering Trump in nearly every major political narrative. From the “orange man bad” era through his time out of office and into his second term, President Trump has remained CNN’s most reliable headline generator. Even when he held no formal power, he dominated coverage.
CNN seems to be blind to their own tendencies. Trump mentioning Biden is not surprising. Political rivals blame one another all the time, and voters largely expect it. What stands out is the media’s selective outrage. The network now frames Trump’s attacks as obsessive, while failing to acknowledge its own near constant focus on him.
