Newsmax Devotes Multiple Articles To A Single Trump Speech

As a reliably pro-Trump website, Newsmax loves giving all the free publicity it can to him. Not only does it regularly air his campaign speeches, it devotes several articles on its website to each speech — coverage it does not usually give to other Republican presidential candidates (ones that aren’t buying airtime on Newsmax TV, anyway). Let’s take a look at a few examples of how this has played out at Newsmax over the past several months:

Faith & Freedom Coalition, June 24

• Trump: Our ‘Nation Is Teetering on the Edge of Tyranny’
• Trump: ‘Blessed Are the Peacemakers’; I Can End Russia’s War
• Trump Mocks Christie ‘Getting Booed Off the Stage’

Pickens, S.C., July 1

• Trump Vows: ‘Now the Gloves Are Off’ Against Biden, His ‘Thugs’
• Trump: GOP Must Start Talking About Abortion Issue Differently
• Trump Defends Sen. Lindsey Graham Against Boo Birds
• Trump Hails South Carolina ‘Grassroots’ Endorsements
• Trump Brings Back ‘Nation in Decline’ Rally Closing With Music

South Dakota Republican convention, Sept. 8

• Trump: ‘COVID Hysteria’ Back Because ‘Election Coming Up’
• Trump: ‘They Indicted Me Because I’m in First Place’
• Trump: Overruling Roe v. Wade Cost GOP Politically
• Trump Stokes SD Crowd, Gets Noem Endorsement

Republican Jewish Coalition and later rally, Las Vegas, Oct. 28

• Trump: ‘Disloyal’ VP Mike Pence ‘Should Endorse Me’
• Trump Vows to Avenge: If You ‘Kill Our Citizens, We Kill You’
• Trump Says Israel’s Fate Will Be the Same as Ours
• Trump Vows to Bring Back Travel Ban to Keep Terrorists Out

Claremont, N.H., Nov. 11

• Trump’s Vow to World, N.H. Voters: ‘I Will Be Your Peacemaker’
• Trump Jokes He’d Make UFC’s Dana White His ‘Offense Chief’

New York Young Republicans, Dec. 9

• Trump: Dems Replay ‘Threat to Democracy Hoax’
• Trump: ‘Going to Indemnify Policemen, Law Enforcement’
• Trump: McConnell ‘Checked Out,’ Hope He Gets Out’

Durham, N.H., Dec. 16

• Trump: ‘We’re Going to Bring Our Country Back From Hell’
• Trump Coins New Term: ‘Green New Scam’
• Trump Rails on N.H. GOP Gov. Sununu: ‘He’s Like a Spoiled Brat’
• Trump Quotes Putin to Trash Biden on ‘Rottenness’ of US Politics (Writer Eric Mack claimed without evidence that Trump invoked Putin “perhaps knowing it will irk the liberal media”)

IN a normal news operation, Trump’s speeches would warrant one article at most, since they’re largely stump-style speeches filled with his usual trash talk. But because Newsmax is such a big Trump booster, it feels it must generate multiiplearticles from a speech — whether or not its news value justifes doing so — to have a block of Trump headlines on its website.