LA Times Front Page Shocker: Paper Heralds Trump’s “Golden Age” Inauguration Remarks
Kudos to Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong for the first truly visible sign his paper is being freed from ideological capture.

I have been following the developments at the Los Angeles Times since President Donald Trump was successfully elected to his second term.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that some of the editors at the Los Angeles Times resigned after its owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, would not allow the newspaper to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Soon-Shiong had become enormously concerned about his paper’s journalistic credibility and fired his editorial board. Subsequently, he hired the unflappable conservative analyst Scott Jennings to be part of a new editorial board that would strive to meet the new vision for the paper: To be fair and balanced.
In the wake of the Greater Los Angeles wildfires, Soon-Shiong expressed his deep regret that the Los Angeles Times endorsed the hapless and incompetent Karen Bass for Mayor while ignoring Republican choice Rick Caruso (who had the foresight to arrange for private firefighters and saved his Pacific Palisades properties).
In that piece, I asked Soon-Shiong to free his publication from ideological capture, as it would be better for Los Angeles, California, and the nation.
As I noted in my piece: Sometimes, the converts are the most active and effective persuaders.
To my delight, Soon-Shiong has been listening to those of us who have made him aware of the deep ideological bias permeating his newspaper. This was today’s headline, which he proudly displayed on X.com:
— Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong (@DrPatSoonShiong) January 21, 2025
The reporting on the inauguration is a bit slanted, but not as steeply as it may have been in the past….because at least the snark wasn’t in the lede.
President Trump’s second inaugural address featured similar themes to his first: a sweeping indictment of the country he inherits and grand promises to fix its problems.
Eight years ago, Trump described “American carnage” and promised to end it immediately. On Monday, he declared that the country’s “decline” would end immediately, ushering in “the golden age of America.”
Trump added a long list of policies that sounded more like a State of the Union speech than an Inauguration Day speech. But the broad themes were fundamentally Trumpian, in which he set himself up as a national savior.
Many potential readers are delighted by the change in tone.
Front page headline of the Los Angeles Times today. Beautiful! pic.twitter.com/Ocog2QKbuK
— Amy Reichert (@amyforsandiego) January 21, 2025
I’ve lived in LA my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like this!
LA Times they are a changing ☀️🌴 https://t.co/nhTiJdhWO5— Lisa Cusack (@lisa_4_la) January 21, 2025
Finally a headline that matches the moment instead of the dark corners of DEM minds, thank you, I might restart my subscription if this is a new leaf and not just a sidebar
— MJAustenofcourse (@Austen12341) January 21, 2025
And while I think it’s not going to be a problem in the foreseeable future, the change is so great that Soon-Shiong is getting warnings not to go overboard.
Dr. Soon-Shiong, Much better. I don’t want all touch-feely good Republican stories (like your usual Democrat stories). The public needs and wants honest, fair, and unbiased reporting. Tell me the truth, no matter how bad it is or how bad it makes me feel. Punch on all sides.
— Kyle Hunter, FRMetS (@KyleHunter) January 21, 2025
I applaud Soon-Shiong for the first truly visible sign that the Los Angeles Times is being freed from ideological capture. Now all his editorial team has to do is expand the new vibe beyond the front page.
@DrPatSoonShiong – Today’s front page was awesome. Now your team needs to work on expanding its coverage of climate to include analysis by credentialed climate experts providing alternative views. Everybody wins when they are fully informed. pic.twitter.com/QWnMAb9j9n
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) January 21, 2025
I look forward to reporting what the Los Angeles Times has to say about President Trump’s visit later this week.

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“The reporting on the inauguration is a bit slanted, but not as steeply as it may have been in the past….because at least the snark wasn’t in the lede.”
What cheap dates we have become.
JFK era was Camelot,
And Obama era was full of rot.
The Biden era no one’s beholdin’
But Trump era is gonna be golden.
Our local paper printed President Trump’s inauguration speech twice in yesterday’s edition (each full pages). Normally anything like this would show near the obits or want ads. I think it was because they were lazy and needed to keep their page count high,
In California particularly the wildfires have driven home to many a first-hand example of the consequences of mindlessly voting for progressive Democrats.
Our situation has looked overwhelming for some time, but significantly less so watching the Trump whirlwind
So, the lackey press has gone from Golden Shower to Golden Age.
Dutifully and gleefully water-carrying, Dhimmi-crat media organs such as the L.A. Times have a long, long way to go to demonstrate a scintilla of ideological and reporting objectivity.
One front page headline, as gratifying as it is to witness, does not atone for decades of their leftist shills’/lapdogs’/trained seals’/stenographers’ brazen propagandizing and narrative-peddling on behalf of Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks and their agenda.
Why the sudden 180 degree turn after decades of shameless leftist drivel? What caused the jarring change?
Check out Trump’s new official portrait.
Some of it may well be the fires. I live in LA County and work in DTLA. Even many of my born-and-bred lefty friends and co-workers are calling Newsom Newscum. Also, while it’s easy to dismiss the Palisades victims as unsympathetic richy-richers, Pasadena and Altadena have a lot of older residents and most of the people who died in the Eaton Fire there were elderly. Families lost grandparents. Grandparents lost homes they’d lived in for decades as well as all the mementos inside. There’s a broad shift to quiet rage against the Dems that is hard to miss unless you live in a hermetically-sealed far left bubble. Whether by the next election it remains intense enough to overcome the endemic vote fraud remains to be seen, but I try to be hopeful. Sometimes.
I would hope that considerable energy is going to be invested in ensuring Federal elections, at the very least, will require proof of LEGAL citizenship to be able to vote (along with voting in person and same day vote counting).
That alone should be enough to break Democrat stranglehold over California. I hadn’t realised until this election just how fortified voting in California had become!! 😱
Patrick Soon-Shiong tired of hemorrhaging money?
If I want ideological spin I can go to countless websites and be filled to the brim with whatever I want. What I’d like to see from national news is news like John Soloman’s “Just The News” sight. Just give it to me and if you print one side of an issue lets see the opposing side so I can make the decision.