Daily Business Report: Friday, May 16, 2025
The Real First 100 Days
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness
Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
Supporters talk of “flooding the zone,” believing Trump is making so many changes so quickly that his opposition is reduced to deer-in-the-headlights infancy.
They must be right when the nation suffers daily Democratic pottymouth videos, vandalism of Teslas, infantile meltdowns at congressional witnesses, rioting against federal agents to protect illegal alien felons, protesting on behalf of women beaters, M-13 gangbangers, human traffickers, and assaulters, and visa-holding violent students praising Hamas terrorists.
Gavin Newsom’s Wonderland: Hilarious News Fact Check Website
By Katy Grimes | California Globe
Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality,” surely must be the borrowed motto of the Newsom administration in its battle with some California news organizations and X commenters. Alice in Wonderland has nothing on Gavin Newsom’s administration.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently launched a new website “fact-checking” X accounts which poke at the sensitive governor, state Republicans, MAGA, and of course, President Donald Trump. It is broken down into “Disinformation by topic:” LA Fires, Economy, Housing, Climate, Crime, Immigration, Homelessness, Water, Random, Energy. It’s “Curiouser and curiouser!” why “random” is ahead of “energy.”
The California Globe has the distinction of landing the first two “FALSE” claims on Newsom’s fake news website.
Hate and hackery: How the Pulitzer Prize destroyed itself
By David Harsanyi | New York Post
This week Mosab Abu Toha, a Hamas apologist and serial fabricator who vilified female Israeli hostages and justified their kidnapping on Oct. 7, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for a series of essays about Gaza in The New Yorker.
It is unsurprising, because the Pulitzer Prize has become an irremediable joke.
You’d think that the Pulitzer, administered and awarded by Columbia University, would want to repair its tattered reputation after awarding a slew of debunked pieces that spread the Russia-collusion hoax.
They went in another direction.
