{"id":19351,"date":"2024-11-28T00:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:46:26","slug":"the-new-white-house-bro-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19351","title":{"rendered":"The New White House Bro Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As he was yukking it up with Daily Wire\u00a0commentator and vehement anti-LGBTQ provocateur Michael Knowles on his podcast, \u201cTriggered With Donald Trump Jr.,\u201d this week, the president-elect\u2019s eldest son made something of an announcement about his and his father\u2019s latest scheme to go after mainstream news sources during Trump II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wonder now, as your father is assembling his team, as maybe Karoline Leavitt\u00a0is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it\u2019s time to reorder that chart and maybe take away some people\u2019s seats,\u201d Knowles said.<\/p>\n\n

Don Jr. all but confirmed that that\u2019s exactly what will be happening as he openly mused about bringing \u201cindependent\u201d media outlets and social media influencers into the White House press briefing room. \u201cIndependent\u201d might not quite be the right term for the cohort of YouTube conspiracy theorizing bros that Don Jr. has in mind.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna break some news here,\u201d Don Jr. said. \u201cBecause I literally had this conversation with \u2014 I was flying back, I was on the plane with my father, I think it was coming back from the SpaceX launch\u00a0with Elon last week. And we were talking about the podcast world and some of our friends and Rogan and guys like you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The president-elect\u2019s son said his dad was considering such a measure \u201cgiven how the media has behaved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe had the conversation about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists,\u201d he said. \u201cIf the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0has lied, they\u2019ve been averse to everything, they\u2019re functioning as the marketing arm to the Democrat Party, why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?\u201d<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s not exactly a secret who those \u201cpeople who have larger viewerships\u201d might be. Trump, with the help of his adult sons, made a point of openly courting the audiences of right-wing, relatively young, male podcasters during the 2024 campaign cycle, the Joe Rogans, Nelk Boys, Theo Vons of the \u201cbro\u201d podcast sphere. Turning out the vote among those audiences proved crucial for his reelection to the White House.<\/p>\n\n

Trump\u2019s been railing against mainstream media outlets and the \u201cfake news\u201d \u2014 whose positive press coverage he simultaneously craves \u2014 since his first foray into politics. Just last week, he posted on his bootleg Twitter about going after the New York Times for its coverage of his transition. He recently sued CBS News and has sued CNN and others in the past. Booting mainstream news outlets from White House press briefings is perhaps the mildest form of retribution against journalists that most in the industry are expecting.<\/p>\n\n

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