Podcast host says he received 'eye rolls,' 'smirks' from reporters during White House briefing debut

"Ruthless" podcast co-host John Ashbrook made a large splash astatine Friday's White House property briefing arsenic a subordinate of the "new media" the Trump medication has welcomed, to the chagrin of immoderate reporters.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt kicked disconnected the briefing by revealing President Trump's property bureau had received "more than 10,000" applications for the precocious announced "new media seats," reserved for "independent journalists, podcasters, societal media influencers and contented creators."

She past rolled retired the reddish carpet for Ashbook to inquire the archetypal question of the time from the caller media seat. He took the accidental to inquire if the bequest media is "out of touch" with the American people.

"In your archetypal briefing, the media went aft this medication for deporting amerciable immigrants they claimed were not criminals," Ashbrook began. "The question is, bash you deliberation they're retired of interaction with Americans demanding enactment connected our borderline crisis?"

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"Ruthless" podcast co-host John Ashbrook asked the archetypal question arsenic the subordinate of the "new media" astatine the White House property briefing connected Friday Jan. 31, 2025. (Screenshot/White House)

"The media retired of ouch?" Leavitt responded with a smile. "I deliberation that media is surely is retired of interaction and I deliberation that's proven by a fig of things, John."

Leavitt went connected to constituent to a New York Times canvass showing "83%" of Americans supported deportations of convulsive transgression amerciable immigrants, adding that "97%" of the deportations carried retired by the Trump medication truthful acold had deportation orders from the erstwhile administration, according to ICE. 

Ashbook, a erstwhile run strategist to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., shed airy connected what it was similar to beryllium successful the briefing country during an quality connected "The Will Cain Show" that afternoon. 

"I've interacted with a batch of these aforesaid reporters arsenic a property caput backmost successful the day. So, erstwhile I walked into the room, I saw a batch of oculus rolls and a batch of smirks and that is precisely what I was hoping for, Will," Ashbrook told Fox News' Will Cain. 

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Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook co-host the fashionable blimpish "Ruthless" podcast.  (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)

"At the Ruthless Variety Program, we don’t instrumentality ourselves excessively seriously. We similar to person amusive and present accusation successful a humorous way… I was hoping to person a small spot of a lighter infinitesimal successful determination and I deliberation we had it." 

The "Ruthless" co-host praised the White House's clasp of "new media," saying Leavitt and her squad are making definite that "we the radical person a dependable wrong that room." 

"It's a brand-new time successful the media," helium added.

"Ruthless" podcast co-host John Ashbrook told Fox News' Will Cain that different reporters had "eye rolls" and "smirks" seeing him successful the White House briefing room. (Fox News Channel)

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"When Elon Musk declared ‘you are the media now,’ the Ruthless Podcast took it to heart. It was a changeable of genius by this White House to incorporated much voices successful the briefing room," Ashbrook told Fox News Digital. "Yet different mode President Trump is keeping his committedness to alteration Washington, and a immense accidental for we the radical to person a dependable successful our government."