Donald Trump Jr. claims his father’s White Home Briefing Room might probably swap out conventional journalists for podcasters and different content material creators they think about “our friends.”
Talking on the most recent episode of his “Triggered With Donald Trump Jr.” podcast, the president-elect’s eldest son claimed talks have been underway to load the deck with pleasant faces higher recognized for supporting than questioning Donald Trump.
The subject got here up when Trump Jr.’s co-host, Michael Knowles, advised it was time to “take away some people’s seats.”
Trump Jr. revealed the very matter was mentioned throughout a current flight along with his dad and Elon Musk.
“We were talking about the podcast world and some of our friends and [Joe] Rogan and guys like you,” Trump Jr. mentioned. “Given how the media has behaved… we had the conversation about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists.”
Joe Rogan is pictured throughout UFC 274 at Footprint Heart on Might 7, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photograph by Christian Petersen/Getty Pictures)
Trump Jr. went as far as to counsel that perhaps he needs to be within the White Home Briefing Room, however shortly determined that may not be allowed. Both method, he mentioned a change that would “blow up some heads” isn’t out of the query.
The independently run White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation has historically handled press credentials for journalists protecting the Oval Workplace. The group, based in 1914, doesn’t usually fill the 49 seats within the White Home Briefing Room with comics like Rogan, who’s the nation’s top-rated podcaster.
It’s not clear whether or not the freewheeling Rogan would think about leaving his cozy Austin, Texas studio for Washington, D.C. to report on the White Home. How a lot management the incoming Trump Administration will really be capable of assert over the press room can be unknown.
One evening annually, The White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation organizes a dinner the place comics roast the sitting president. In his first time period in workplace, Trump didn’t attend that occasion.
