Trump Jr. says White House press room could replace journalists with podcasters, ‘friends’

Donald Trump Jr. claims his father’s White House Briefing Room could perchance swap retired accepted journalists for podcasters and different contented creators they see “our friends.”

Speaking connected the latest occurrence of his “Triggered With Donald Trump Jr.” podcast, the president-elect’s eldest lad claimed talks person been underway to load the platform with affable faces amended known for supporting than questioning Donald Trump.

The taxable came up erstwhile Trump Jr.’s co-host, Michael Knowles, suggested it was clip to “take distant immoderate people’s seats.”

Trump Jr. revealed the precise substance was discussed during a caller formation with his dada and Elon Musk.

“We were talking astir the podcast satellite and immoderate of our friends and [Joe] Rogan and guys similar you,” Trump Jr. said. “Given however the media has behaved… we had the speech astir opening up the property country to a batch of these autarkic journalists.”

Joe Rogan is pictured during UFC 274 astatine Footprint Center connected May 7, 2022 successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Trump Jr. went truthful acold arsenic to suggest that possibly helium should beryllium successful the White House Briefing Room, but rapidly decided that mightiness not beryllium allowed. Either way, helium said a alteration that could “blow up immoderate heads” isn’t retired of the question.

The independently tally White House Correspondents’ Association has traditionally dealt with property credentials for journalists covering the Oval Office. The organization, founded successful 1914, doesn’t typically capable the 49 seats successful the White House Briefing Room with comics similar Rogan, who’s the nation’s top-rated podcaster.

It’s not wide whether the freewheeling Rogan would see leaving his cozy Austin, Texas workplace for Washington, D.C. to study connected the White House. How overmuch power the incoming Trump Administration volition really beryllium capable to asseverate implicit the property country is besides unknown.

One nighttime each year, The White House Correspondents’ Association organizes a dinner wherever comics roast the sitting president. In his archetypal word successful office, Trump did not attend that event.