Today President Trump shared an article on how the Drudge Report changed and is no longer the trusted source it once was for conservatives.
In 2016 and before the Gateway Pundit relished being linked to by the Drudge Report. We had numerous top stories at the site. When this happened we knew that we had the top story in the country and the world.
We reported on candidate Trump’s win out East and Ted Cruz’s imminent defeat and mathematical elimination from the 2016 Nomination in April 2016. Drudge made this the headline where he produced another iconic image of the times sarcastically using Cruz’s campaign message of TrusTed.
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Drudge linked to our post at The Gateway Pundit:
IT’S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race – With Chart
Those days are long gone. We recognized this in 2017. Now no one cares what’s on Drudge. President Trump made this clear today when he shared the article on Drudge.
The article concludes:
The site became decidedly anti-Trump several years ago, and it isn’t even known for sure whether Matt Drudge remains the owner, be it in whole or part. He himself once craved personal attention, with his own ill-fated weekly Fox show (wearing the cliched reporter’s fedora, though mercifully not including a “press” card tucked into its band. (For the record, back in the days when nearly all male residents of American cities wore fedoras or similar dress headwear, they had the sense and civility to keep their hats off while indoors). He even wrote a book, “Drudge Manifesto,” which one fond Drudge admirer dismissed as “Lots of little phrases, most of them not complete sentences, all strung together in an incomprehensible stream-of-consciousness style.”
Today, Matt Drudge is apparently a confirmed recluse. Did he cash out? Did Trump treat him shabbily, so now he’s getting back at him? Did he change his politics? Whatever the answer, fine. But his past aficionados would like something approximating a manly explanation as to why the Drudge Report died.