President Trump is overturning and disrespecting traditions pell-mell, an unparalleled rampage through the great American institutions. Or so says the PBS News Hour.On Tuesday, reporter William Brangham served as guest anchor to cover Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center, and brought on an insufficiently identified left-wing presidential historian to flay the president.Sy was joined by historian Mark Updegrove and asked him, “Is there any precedent for a sitting president to have major cultural buildings named after him, especially ones in which they themselves control the board?”Updegrove launched into Democratic talking points, using the new phrase that pays, “affordability.”The historian found what Sy termed “the demolition of the White House East Wing” to be “very concerning, deeply concerning, to see this president, I think, overreach….of President Trump just deciding to do something and doing it without consulting anyone, without looking at the rules, without looking at the precedents. And I think that in itself is dangerous.”Sy only gave away her guest’s partisan affiliation at the very end.Predictably, Updegrove is a fan of ABC News reporter and Biden suck-up extraordinaire Mary Bruce.Also on Tuesday’s edition, the News Hour stirred up controversy over Trump abruptly recalling ambassadors from 30 countries. He promised “one perspective on this move,” which turned out to be the only perspective offered in the studio.After a 15-second reading by Brangham of a State Department statement on the recalls (shown onscreen), Dinkelman said of Trump’s move, “This is unprecedented. This is unheard of. This is a sabotage of the American diplomatic machine. This is an affront to the professional Foreign Service that we have spent decades, a century in building in our country. And I don’t know what it foretells.”Brangham hardly blinked at the loaded word “sabotage,” merely repeating it.Brangham rehashed the State Department’s point and invited Dinkelman to attack it.These overwrought, one-sided anti-Trump segments were brought to you in part by BNSF Railway.
PBS News Hour
12/23/25
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