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Former NBC News employee Chuck Todd recently appeared on Newsmax and took questions on a variety of topics.

To Chuck’s credit, he did have a decent answer when he was asked what he thinks Trump has gotten right so far. He named the southern border and the Trump administration’s handling of the illegal immigration crisis. He also gave Trump points for what he has accomplished so far in the Middle East.

When Chuck was asked about the public’s loss of trust in the media, he went right back to being the Chuck Todd we all know so well.

His answer is below, via Newsmax:

The sharp decline in trust in the news media reflects a wider collapse of confidence in American institutions, in that journalists can be only as reliable as the sources they are given, Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator and host of “The Chuck ToddCast,” told Newsmax on Saturday.

“One of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so, so low is remember what the media is,” Todd said on Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “It’s a reflection of ‘I always say I’m as good as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want at times.'”…

“We may be reporting what the ‘experts’ tell us,” he said. “But if the public doesn’t trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don’t trust us.”

He said distrust now runs across ideological lines.

“What you have now, I would argue, is essentially the left doesn’t trust the media now, and the right doesn’t trust the media,” Todd said.

Todd also pointed to the modern information ecosystem, especially technology platforms and recommendation systems, as a driver of polarization and a barrier to rebuilding common sets of facts.

“I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that sort of, I think, make it too easy for too many people to live in a bubble, a filter bubble,” he said.

Big tech and algorithms are to blame? Really? Watch the clip:

Chuck Todd blames Americans’ cratering trust in the media on “lack of reliable political leadership” and “big tech algorithms."

It could never be the relentless stream of lies and hoaxes perpetrated on Americans by people *like Chuck.*

Truly amazing stuff. pic.twitter.com/ivAqCQigPG

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 21, 2025

If you want to watch the long version, which includes his comments about Trump, it’s here:

The type of denial on media that Chuck Todd displays here shows that they still don’t get it. Their industry is toast.

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