Newsmax Runs Post Calling Out Trump's 'Degrading Rhetoric,' Customers Lose It

Newsmax posted a tweet and article that enraged the far-right channel's consumers.

Customers of Newsmax went ballistic Tuesday after the far-right channel shared a social media post describing Donald Trump’s “degrading rhetoric” at a campaign stop.

The network, a staunch Trump ally, was sharing a Reuters wire story that was identified as such only at the bottom of the article once readers clicked the link in the post on X (formerly Twitter). But otherwise, the article appeared as though it had been written by Newsmax. The conservative channel repeated the wire story’s lede nearly verbatim in the X post.

“Donald Trump called immigrants in the United States illegally ‘animals’ and ‘not human’ in a speech in Michigan, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail,” the X post read.

The article, headlined “Trump Calls Migrants ‘Animals’ In Michigan Stop,” on Newsmax’s website, was followed by eye-opening fact-checks (at least for some conservatives) that called out Trump’s fear-mongering on the border crisis. “Researchers say people living in the U.S. illegally do not commit violent crimes at a higher rate than native-born citizens,” Reuters wrote.

It also said that “Trump frequently claims without evidence that migrants have caused a spike in violent crime in U.S. cities. On Tuesday, he repeated an unfounded claim that Latin American nations are intentionally sending their criminals into the United States.”