Give credit where it’s due: President Donald Trump faces a relentlessly hostile press and still shows up, answers questions, and stays transparent—quite a contrast with Joe Biden, who needed note cards for softballs and still struggled to get through them. Funny how that works when the media’s already on your side.

Sunday’s episode of ABC “journalism” was a case study. George Stephanopoulos cut off Vice President JD Vance mid-answer while Vance calmly explained there was no substance to the accusations against Border Czar Tom Homan—and then dared to ask why ABC was obsessing over a weightless story instead of the Schumer Shutdown, its impact on Americans, and how poor families are going without food. That’s called pivoting to what matters. So naturally, Stephanopoulos killed the mic. Nothing says “tough interview” like silencing the answer you don’t want to hear.

Vance also highlighted Stephanopoulos’ refusal to question Democrats with the same intensity. (Imagine that.) As my colleague Brad Slager already dismantled, the Homan smear has problems stacked on problems—yet ABC chased it anyway. Priorities.

This isn’t exactly ABC’s first rodeo with Trump either. They already settled a defamation suit from the president—with an apology and $15 million to his future presidential library. You’d think a lesson was learned. Apparently not.

So when Trump took questions at the White House on Tuesday, he didn’t let it slide. He defended Vance and leveled ABC, calling out the obvious: cutting off a sitting vice president mid-sentence is disrespectful—to the person and to the office. It’s also the dictionary definition of “Fake News”: manufacture a narrative, block the inconvenient rebuttal.

Will it change Stephanopoulos’ behavior? Doubtful. That bias is baked in. But ABC got a very public reminder that bullying the interviewee isn’t the same as doing journalism—and the shaming was well deserved. The upside? Team Trump keeps showing up, keeps answering, and keeps winning the exchange—because facts, fairness, and a little backbone still play pretty well outside the green room.