For weeks we have been subjected to the melodrama surrounding the Associated Press seeing its White House correspondents subjugated and removed from the official press pool. The outlet has been trying to sell it as a severe First Amendment rights violation and a sign of the Trump administration sullying the honor of an esteemed news organization.

Since the decision was made, the AP appears intent on proving it was a wise decision.

One story on DOGE employees had to be massaged after the alteration of facts had been called out. Then the news syndicate sold the idea that cuts in spending were leading to the death of trees in minority areas of New Orleans, and then there was the egregious misquoting of Tulsi Gabbard done to slander President Trump. It has become laughable for the AP to claim victimhood.

In the newest attempt at a Trump hit job, we get this completely neutered attempt, the latest in the string of alleged calamities that are the result of DOGE spending cuts. Now we are told AIDS is spreading in Ethiopia, and if you are tilting your head trying to reconcile just how that transpired, that is for good reason, as reason is completely abandoned by the AP.

HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia's Tigray. Trump's aid cuts aren't helping https://t.co/o3XpGBc5nu

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 26, 2025

The piece begins by highlighting the case of a woman with AIDS where she contracted it after a series of gang rapes she suffered at the hands of militiamen during wartime conditions. Apparently the AP feels that if DOGE had not made spending cuts the rapists would…we have to guess… been sure to wear condoms??? It's not until deep in the piece that we get statistics defying the effort to blame Trump for these ghastly health conditions.

Like the rest of Ethiopia, Tigray is also grappling with sharp rises in other infectious diseases because of the effects of conflict, climate change and funding cuts. Nationally, malaria cases have soared from 900,000 in 2019 to over 10 million last year. The war interrupted efforts to distribute nets and spray high-risk areas with insecticides to prevent the mosquito-borne disease. Measles rose from 1,941 cases in 2021 to 28,129 in 2024. Cholera and tuberculosis are also making comebacks.

In other words, things were horrific last year when Trump was not in power. Add to this the destruction of ambulances, hospitals lacking drugs, and doctors going without pay - all the result of the ongoing war in the region. Laying the blame on the current administration is beyond a stretch; it is downright desperate. 

This has become the expected behavior seen throughout the media, and it is becoming standard issue from the Associated Press. This is why it is laughable for the outlet to lament its White House exclusion. Why would an administration facilitate a news source that displays its intent to slander and demean, absent core facts? They do not need the administration's help to further their agenda.

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Editor's Note: DOGE is finding billions of dollars in wasteful spending, and the Democrats and the Regime Meida are losing their minds.

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