oct 25 2025 Former "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd
told Newsmax on Friday that one of the greatest failures of mainstream journalism in recent years was the decision to de-platform President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots — a move he said worsened polarization and damaged trust in the media.
"Well, I think the biggest mistake legacy media made was de-platforming Donald Trump," Todd said in an interview on Newsmax's "
Finnerty."
"I think the reaction post-January 6th of suddenly saying anybody who was on the other side of that issue wouldn't certify the election and de-platforming him off of Twitter and Facebook — now X, of course — it made everything worse because what happened," Todd added. He said the decision to isolate Trump and his supporters became a "core mistake of the intelligentsia of the left," and one that set the tone for the years that followed.
