This is hack, bottom-of-the-barrel journalism at its worst.
The statistics show that the “The United States almost certainly had the lowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025” according to crime data analyst Jeff Asher. “And the available evidence suggests that we’re going to go even lower this year,” he predicts based on the numbers and trend so far.
Here is how NPR starts its story:
“As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, it’s doing pretty well by at least one measure: the national murder rate.”
That’s not news reporting. That’s partisan damnation with faint praise, while also engaging in deliberate misrepresentation. The story states that President Trump has achieved the best result in reducing the murder rate since at least 1960. That’s not, by any reasonable use of the English language, doing “pretty well.” It is an extraordinary success, and should be reported as such.
Then there is “at least one measure,” because, you see, everything else is terrible, but NPR’s Trump Deranged listeners assume that, so a major Trump accomplishment has to be minimized in the reporting. The technique is called “poisoning the well” and it isn’t journalism, it is pure bias. NPR, like the rest of the Axis, can’t tell a straight news story fairly, directly or honestly without applying a negative spin if President Trump is involved. You can almost hear the sneers: the outlet might as well had written,
“Well, how about that, the asshole did something right!”
“Look! Trump lucked out this time!”
“Hey, I guess everything the President does can’t blow up in his face!”
“Even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then!”
As Clarence Darrow memorably said at the end of his closing argument in the Sweet case,
“I am the last one to come here to stir up race hatred, or any other hatred. I do not believe in the law of hate… I believe in the law of love, and I believe you can do nothing with hatred.”
So I am wrestling my brain to the ground to fight hating these awful, arrogant, unprofessional, smug and destructive people. They refuse to extend even moderate respect and decency to the President of the United States. They do everything in their power to distort facts, data, reality and analysis to confuse the public and turn it against their own leader. They will not give credit when it is due, and they will not assign responsibility where it belongs, if there is any way to twist the facts to impugn President Trump.
Ethics Alarms 
Trump must have banned “assault rifles” while nobody was looking.
See the article below. There were lots of guns floating around. That’s it! It’s those darned guns floating around!
Since we can’t currently end birth-right citizenship, the obvious response is to deny all visas to women of child-bearing age, focus on deportation of illegal immigrants of child-bearing age, and keep the borders closed to illegal immigration. These actions are well within the law and Constitution, and will eventually have the same effect.
You do not have the right against searches at the border. It would be lawful for border agents to ask any woman who isn’t entering as a citizen or on a visa “hey lady, please pee on this stick before I let you in.”
The teeth-gnashing at that one would be epic!
gah, bad proofreading
on a visa –> on an immigrant visa
The left is trying hard to make sure to claim that immigration crackdowns have NOTHING to do with this. Nope, targeting criminal illegal aliens and deporting them simply can’t reduce crime. It’s a lie. Trust me bro.
Get a load of this from the NPR article:
“LaMaria Pope has had a front-row seat for the recent change. She works for … a violence-prevention nonprofit focused on young people in the Seattle area, and she remembers the anxiety of the pandemic years.
“There was a lot of guns floating around,” she says. “There was almost nothing to do but engage in crime. And knowing that, ‘Oh, we want to defund the police, if we call they’re not going to come for two hours’ — kids are smart and they picked up on that.”
She credits the return to in-person programming, school and structured activities for much of the improvement. “We have a better way to connect and make an influence on our young people,” she says.”
There was almost nothing to do but engage in crime! Eureka! It was the anxiety of the pandemic years. It wasn’t the Biden presidency! Why didn’t I think of that? So, once the teachers unions finally let the teachers go back to the classroom all these kids started going to school instead of gang banging? Isn’t the chronic non-attendance rate in most urban school systems about forty percent?
Nothing to see here. Move along.