White House press corps recoils at Trump's threat to shake up briefing room

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

12/04/24 6:00 AM ET


Signals from President-elect Trump’s team that a shake-up of the White House press briefing room could be coming are roiling journalists preparing to cover his second term.

People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to him could replace outlets like the major television networks, The New York Times and The Washington Post in the room’s front rows.

Reporters covering The White House, in conversations with The Hill this week, described a feeling of annoyance, frustration and dread at such an idea. Several reporters declined to comment on the record or requested anonymity to speak candidly about the possibility of a drastically changed press room and the likely kerfuffle it would spark.

“It would be a total mess,” one White House reporter told The Hill this week. “I would expect people would probably boycott the briefings, though that would put certain outlets in a tough spot deciding if they want to go along with what the Trump people are trying to pull.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5020455-trump-proposes-shakeup-press-briefing-room/

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[ck4829]

1. Press - Maybe consider doing a press embargo of the White House?

Cover news except for the crazy thing the Trump administration says that day? I dunno?

[Cirsium]

5. What?

Every word out of his mouth is important news! We need 24/7 365 coverage of him. Everyone has been doing their part to make sure that a day without Trump ever happens, including MSNBC, CNN, Meidas Touch - "Trump in complete MELTDOWN!" - and all of the rest of the liberal podcasts and video channels, the massive right wing radio network, 3 cable networks dedicated to Trump worship, social media...

[jimfields33]

27. At least get the ones who get eyeballs.

We need some democratic podcasters in the mix. We have to progress on our media space.

[FBaggins]

33. How would that help?

The friendly outlets would still go and would now dominate coverage of the administration - always with friendly spin. The other outlets would lack content.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Seems to me that news organizations with an ounce of integrity

Would boycott the press room in this circumstance.
Well, there's my answer.

[Cirsium]

3. Access!

Time for the execs to fly down to Mar A Lago and kiss the ring if they expect to have access.

[endless summer]

4. Hmmm

You’d think that they would have seen this coming. Major television outlets weren’t that concerned during the election. Maybe they should have done their jobs.

[tanyev]

6. I hope they have plenty of fainting couches and smelling salts in their break rooms.

They're the ones who insisted on treating the election as a race between two equivalent candidates who merely had differing philosophies.

[sop]

7. Broadcast the pressers live with fact-checkers pointing out every lie on a large chyron across the bottom.

[calimary]

18. Probably not. They're gonna want to keep their presidential kneepads.

Just absolutely and utterly DISGRACEFUL.

When I was still working, integrity meant something. So did speaking truth to power. Not anymore.

[bdamomma]

35. I would love

to hear one or a few of those reporters call him out on his lies (if they have the guts to do that). The emperor wears no clothes scenario. The felon needs to be shaken off that perch he's on.

[spudspud]

8. Serves them right for their hypocritical coverage of Biden and helping to bring on the apocalypse of a second Trump term

Hope he bans all of them and just does press briefings with MAGA media. Little stinkers.

[Zorro]

9. They've acted like boorish assholes during Biden's term

Now they’re going to be treated like boorish assholes by complete assholes.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Oh fuck the White House press corps

A more useless bag of imbeciles could not be found.

[maxrandb]

11. It's "effing" fascist as "eff", but

imagine the shot of Jake Tapper sitting next to the Hawk-Tuah girl.

If "journalists" exist that are still dedicated to "journalism", you'd only be able find Donnie Dipshit coverage on only Reich-wing websites and podcasts, not on actual news sites.

I wish the press would take my approach for the next 4 years; "Not my circus, not my monkey"

We don't have a press anymore. We have a bunch of porn scene "fluffers". Both jobs require doing all they can to make a dick function.

[NotHardly]

12. I'd prefer he be given no air.

[angrychair]

13. Not sad

For this bootlicking sycophants that have abandoned all appearances of objectivity and impartiality.
They've now spent days ripping into Biden over that pardon but barely a word when it comes to what trump is doing.
I mean he is giving a position to every billionaire that ever gave him two pennies.
Barely a word from the news media that could ever be construed as criticism.

[Karasu]

14. Gee. It's almost like normalizing fascism for 8 fucking years straight has consequences. Imagine that.

You MSM fuckers made this possible. What did you think was going to happen? "Business as usual?"

[dobleremolque]

15. Oh no!

Anyway .....

[red dog 1]

16. Der Fuhrer has spoken!

Heil VonShitzInPantz!

[LoisB]

17. Are we North Korea yet?

[bdamomma]

36. More like

Hungary with a splash of Putin.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. "Trump threatens . . ."

Get used to that phrase. It's going to appear in a lot of headlines for the next four years.

Eventually, it will be replaced by: "Donald J. Trump -- the 47th, strongest, smartest, best-looking and last PRESIDENT in the history of this nation which bears his name ('Trump States' ) -- has decreed that hence forth all citizens will __________________. MAGA!"
.
But hey, the price of eggs is down, and that's what really matters, isn't it?

[Justice matters.]

20. Hair furhair to M$M: FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS

What? After a decade of being called FAKE NEWS they still didn't get it??

[Callie1979]

21. Make room for RT, Gunther Eagleman, & the other "X" russian assets.

[Montauk6]

22. Does that mean we're gonna see more questions from...

QAnon, Newsmax, InfoWars, Stormfront, Breitbart, Pravda, The Ron Paul Newsletter, Washington Times, National Enquirer, The Rubin Report, Soldier of Fortune, Atomwaffen, Chick Publications???

[orangecrush]

25. Yes.

[liberal N proud]

23. If they would have been doing their jobs

We wouldn’t be in this situation

[orangecrush]

24. YOU DID THIS TO YOURSELVES

Now sleep in your bed.

[Shipwack]

26. The reporters from...

“Leopards Eating Faces News” were especially shocked.

[Freethinker65]

28. Trump will not be giving press briefings. He might appear to threaten enemies and bask in the flattery of loyalists, ...

But he will never answer actually challenging questions. Like his first term round table events where each member stood up and glowed about dear leader or even his daily nonsensical COVID briefing where experts could only express their horror by rolling their eyes. Call ins to loyalists and socially connected wannabes Mika/Joe and FoxNews when Trump needs an immediate ego stroking in public will be sufficient.

[travelingthrulife]

38. In front of the helicopter so he can't hear questions he doesn't want to hear.

[Bluetus]

29. They expect us to come to their defense after 12 years of normalizing, sanewashing, and both-sidesing this guy?

I have an idea. How about you lame-ass "journalists" get outside the Beltway and start covering the point-of-view that people actually care about.

[LudwigPastorius]

30. "We didn't know the crazed authoritarian was going to act like a crazed authoritarian, or else we would....

have warned everybody!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. All that orange ass kissed for nothing

[33taw]

32. He rarely had press conferences and I have no intention of watching MSM.

[bdamomma]

34. Speak no evil

to that weak, disgusting, felon.

[Miguelito Loveless]

37. Why the shock?

You helped get him into office, twice. He flat out said you were the enemy.