Trump Threatens To BAN “Unfriendly” Media Outlets From White House

Allies close to Donald Trump – including his own son – are pushing for a dramatic shakeup in the White House Press Corp, and the talk now suggests that they are considering banning any outlet that they deem to be “unfriendly” to the administration. This is probably the least surprising bit of news that we’ve gotten in the last month, as Trump has a habit of not wanting anyone that doesn’t kiss his behind near him. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what this would do.

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According to new reports, Donald Trump is threatening to shake up the White House Press Corps and basically limit who has access to go into those daily White House press briefings that are gonna be helmed by Caroline Levitt. Because as we all know, Donald Trump doesn't want adversarial press to be asking tough questions. I mean, let's be honest here. Caroline Levitt doesn't have a ton of experience. I mean, she's only 27 years old. She'll be the youngest press secretary ever. She doesn't really know how to deal with this yet. I mean, she's still kind of cutting her teeth with this, and based on the statements we saw from her both before and after the election, uh, she's very bad at it. So if you put a very smart reporter from a very distinguished news organization up there in the front row to ask her tough questions, she's gonna look like a complete and total idiot, and they're gonna make Donald Trump look bad as well. And the Trump camp doesn't want that. So they're now openly talking about reshaping who gets into the Press Corps, which could include getting rid of, you know, reporters from NBCA, B-C-C-B-S, Washington Post, New York Times, all the, you know, regulars and replacing them with, uh, what's their list here?

Podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to Trump. So podcasters, internet personalities, which I'm assuming means like what Instagram influencers, those are gonna be the people in the White House Press Corps now instead of those distinguished individuals that have been going for years and years from outlets that people kind of respect. To be honest, I don't hate that. I really don't. I, I hate the part where it's only gonna be people that are gonna ask softball questions and try to make Trump look better, that is going to try to hoodwink the entire country. And that's a very stupid idea. And it shows you how terrified Donald Trump and his entire, uh, administration are of the press. They can't handle tough questions because they're not smart people. So that part is stupid, but traditional media failed us tremendously during the election. Don't let 'em back in, kick 'em out. I don't care. You're not gonna hurt my feelings. Bring in the podcasters, bring in the internet personalities, the people who actually get more views than these other people reporting for the major news outlets. That is okay with me. Like I am fine with that, but it will be doing a tremendous disservice to this country at the same time, because

You're not gonna bring in people like me, David Pacman's not gonna be sitting in the front row of those press briefings ne next to Jesse Dallimore or Kyle Kalinsky. You're not gonna have Emma Vand up there asking tough questions that they can't answer. You're gonna have Charlie Kirk's people, you're gonna have daily wire people. You're gonna have daily dumb, whatever the other ones are called. 'cause they all seem to have daily in the name. You're gonna have NEWSMAX people, one America Real America's voice. Hell, you may even have people from Mike Lindell's, Frank Speech, hell, maybe Mike Lindell himself will be in the front row that is going to be damaging to this country. But the media landscape has shifted and the White House Press Corps has not shifted with it. And that of course, I think is a problem. So I'm okay with bringing in podcasters and, and internet personalities, whatever influencers, but make it fair, which we all know is something that Trump won't do.