White House Embarrassingly Holds ‘Press Briefing’ Full of MAGA Influencers

Donald Trump has never been a huge fan of journalists—unless they say nice things about him, that is. His relationship with the press was probably much better in the days when the only threat he posed to the country was in the form of a brain-cell-killing reality show. Since becoming president, however, the media has been increasingly hard on Trump, and Trump, in turn, has been increasingly hard on the media. Since taking office for a second term, the billionaire has aggressively sought to chip away at the traditional access that legacy media institutions have typically enjoyed. In place of real journalists, Trump has sought the company of people like Tim Pool: infotainment podcasters who often have a surplus of opinions and a deficit of information.