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President Trump Delivers White House Address on Election Integrity After Networks Decline to Air It
President Donald Trump spoke from the East Room on July 16, 2026, about voter records and network coverage. He called for license revocation of NBC and ABC over their decisions on the broadcast.
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President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026. He stated that NBC and ABC News had declined to air the speech on their broadcast channels. Trump said the networks avoided the topic of election integrity.
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"They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is, and they don’t want to reveal it," he said. He added that fraud of this kind should result in license revocation because the networks use public airwaves without payment. ABC News carried the address only on its streaming platform and ABC News Radio.
NBC News aired the speech on its streaming platform. @zerohedge reported these coverage decisions. During the address Trump announced the declassification of information on Chinese hacking of voter data.
He said China obtained 220 million voter records during the 2020 election. A Homeland Security Department review found 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections. Trump said he had directed the department to notify states and remove ineligible voters from rolls.
White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X that NBC and ABC did not want viewers to hear the truth and urged people to watch on the White House platform at 9:00 p.m. EDT. Trump had previously called for revocation of the networks’ broadcast licenses and described them as an arm of the Democrat Party.
The Federal Communications Commission ordered an early review of license renewals for eight Disney-owned ABC stations in April. The FCC was also examining whether ABC’s daytime program The View violated equal-airtime rules for political candidates.
