Trump's first 100 days show him dictating the terms of press coverage -- and following Orbán's playbook for media control

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : New terms for the press In his first 100 days, Trump asserted new control over the press, starting with those who cover him daily.
59% : Where Orbán's allies acquired and repurposed unfavorable media, Trump has found powerful media partners of his own, such as Elon Musk.
56% : By recasting the media in his image, Trump is building a press pool that will champion his message.
53% : American media personalities such as Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson have traveled to Budapest to meet with Orbán and study his playbook, while the Hungarian leader has become a star on the U.S. conservative circuit, speaking at Conservative Political Action Committee gatherings and forging ties with the MAGA movement and Trump.
35% : Importing the playbook Looking back at the president's first 100 days, it's clear that Orbán's tactics are now surfacing in Trump's second term. Where Orbán passed a media law to penalize imbalanced reporting, Trump now calls certain coverage illegal, and his administration has begun investigations into at least one media outlet.
32% : Now, Trump has escalated those demands, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to punish CBS and revoke its license over a 60 Minutes segment he didn't like.
20% : "These networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative and it has to stop, it has to be illegal," Trump told the Department of Justice staff, turning familiar grievances into what sounded like a call for action.

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