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The president was responding to a question by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, who said many people were “threatened” b
The claim is part of a rash of GOP rhetoric focused on silencing anyone who doesn't align with the party in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murde
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reporter boyfriend threatened to primary a Republican congressman because he voted no on President Donald Trump’s “
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reporter boyfriend threatened to primary a Republican congressman because he voted no on President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Brian Glenn, chief White House correspondent at the right-wing network Real America’s Voice, was incensed that his own congressman, Texan Rep. Keith Self, was among the Republicans rebelling against Trump’s bill.
“I think Keith Self was only concerned about his self in all of this,” Glenn said on air Thursday.
Brian Glenn was the one who asked Zelenskyy why he wasn’t wearing a suit. RSBN, the “news” outlet he helped build, has taken $192,000 from T
S.V. Dáte at HuffPost:
WASHINGTON ― The White House’s favored new reporter, the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit, was the primary voice at a “news” outlet that has taken $192,000 from President Donald Trump’s political committees, nearly half of which came while he was program director there. Brian Glenn now works for a pro-Trump streaming platform called Real America’s Voice, but from September 2020 to May 2024, he was the most visible face at Right Side Broadcasting Network. Over those years, the outlet took $92,000 in “broadcast” fees, first from Trump’s Save America committee and then from Trump’s campaign, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission filings. Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as “production” costs, and then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room. “Who pays for them?” he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC, CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover. In fact, taking such payments would be considered a serious ethical breach among reputable news outlets. The television networks covering this and previous White Houses, as well as print and radio outlets, all pay their own expenses when covering political events, as does HuffPost. Indeed, the Trump administration, including the White House, has falsely accused legitimate news organizations of corruption because government agencies, even those in the first Trump term, bought subscriptions from them, including some to expensive, lobbyist-oriented trade publications. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary who had worked on Trump’s campaign, also acknowledged the payments. “The Trump campaign paid RSBN for the usage of their live stream,” she said. She did not address HuffPost’s question regarding the ethics of an outlet accepting money from the subject it was covering. Those payments continued after Glenn left RSBN to join Real America’s Voice last spring. The campaign gave the online video outlet an additional $100,000 from June 2024 through the end of the year, capped off with a $57,000 payment on Nov. 14, the week following the election.
Right-wing outfit Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), where Brian Glenn previously worked before high-tailing it over to another right-wing outfit in Real America’s Voice, took over $192,000 in payments from pro-Trump committees.
The president was responding to a question by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, who said many people were “threatened” b
Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:
President Donald Trump said Monday in the Oval Office that he would have “no problem” with removing LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flags from Washington, D.C. streets, telling reporters that the banners could even be treated as symbols of domestic terrorism. The remarks came during an exchange with Brian Glenn, a correspondent for the far-right Real America’s Voice network and the boyfriend of Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. In front of a small group of reporters comprising the press pool, Glenn showed Trump an image of the Progress Pride flag hanging in front of a business and claimed it was a “trans flag” displayed on 14th Street, a main thoroughfare in the capital, which is long associated with LGBTQ+ nightlife and businesses. He asked whether the president would consider requiring the removal of the flag. "A lot of people are very threatened by this flag. It means a lot of different negative things to people, violence," Glenn claimed. [...] Glenn pressed further, telling the president, “Well, there’s also, we call it ‘transtifa,’ so perhaps if you can label them a domestic terrorist group, in all reality, you could take that flag down. It would represent the transtifa.” Trump replied, “I think you probably could. Again, you’ll be sued, and it’s okay. I’ve been sued before a couple of times.” Glenn’s reference echoed recent right-wing narratives about what he called “trans shooters.”
This is craven insanity for the Trump Regime to even consider: banning pride flags.
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: Trump says flag burners should be jailed & Pride flags banned in rant against free speech
The vigil has been going on since 1981. Trump ordered its dismantling after a right-wing journalist pointed it out to him.
Trudy Ring at The Advocate:
A peace vigil that has been held near the White House since 1981 has ended after the Trump administration ordered its removal. Park Police took everything at the vigil site down Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports. The removal was part of the clearing of homeless encampments in Washington, D.C., but a volunteer staffing the site said it is not an encampment. "The difference between an encampment and a vigil is that an encampment is where homeless people live," Philipos Melaku-Bello told the AP. "As you can see, I don't have a bed. I have signs, and it is covered by the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression." He is in touch with attorneys about possible legal action. The site had a small tent and a banner reading “Live by the bomb, die by the bomb,” the AP reports. Activist William Thomas started the vigil in 1981, and it is likely the longest continuous antiwar protest in the U.S. Thomas died in 2009, and then Melaku-Bello and others took over the site, staffing it 24 hours a day to avoid actions like Sunday’s.
Donald Trump was unaware of the site until Brian Glenn, a reporter with the conservative network Real America’s Voice, pointed it out to him Friday. “Just out front of the White House is a blue tent that originally was put there to be an anti-nuclear tent for nuclear arms,” Glenn said, according to the AP. “It's kind of morphed into more of an anti-American, sometimes anti-Trump at many times.” Trump then told his staff to have it taken down.
On Sunday, acting on a suggestion from Real America’s Voice employee Brian Glenn, Donald Trump’s regime removed the White House Peace Vigil tent that has remained in front of The White House since 1981 under Ronald Reagan’s Presidency and maintained under several Presidents of both parties.
The tent was staffed 24/7/365(6) at all times to avoid situations like this.
See Also:
The Guardian: Police dismantle longstanding White House peace vigil on Trump’s orders
Pete Tsipis and Reed McMaster at MMFA:
A Media Matters review of White House press briefings held so far in President Donald Trump’s second administration found that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on right-wing media outlets 41% of the time, and 4 of the 5 reporters called on most were from right-wing outlets. The press briefings now include a “new media” seat which the White House has used to amplify more right-wing voices. While the White House attacks traditional press freedoms, the press briefings are now littered with biased questions from the administration's most staunch supporters.
Data: Trump's White House elevated conservative media, while snubbing legacy outlets like The New York Times, AP, and public media
Media Matters found that during the 16 press briefings held from January 20 to April 22, the White House called on right-wing outlets 41% of the time (110 out of 267). Leavitt gave the remaining opportunities to ask questions to non-ideological (52%, or 139 times) and foreign (7%, or 18 times) outlets. Reporters at right-wing outlets also made up 4 out of 5 of the reporters called on most. While CBS News' Jennifer Jacobs was called on the most, with 10 occasions, all the other reporters in the top 5 were from conservative outlets. The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese was called on 9 times, while Fox News’ Peter Doocy, The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan, and the New York Post’s Diana Glebova were each given 8 chances to ask questions.
The conservative media outlets White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on most were Fox News (15), the New York Post (12), The Daily Caller (10), The Daily Wire (8), and Newsmax (7). Among nonideological media, Leavitt called on CBS News (19), CNN (14) , ABC News (13) , NBC News (11), and Bloomberg (9) most.
The White House elevated smaller, far-right media over many established outlets, calling on One America News (5 times) and The Gateway Pundit (5) more than The Washington Post (4) and The Associated Press (3). As the Trump administration works to cut federal funding from public broadcasters PBS and NPR, Leavitt has boxed them out, having called on a journalist from each network only 1 time.
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The Trump administration has elevated right-wing voices while cutting traditional press freedoms
The administration has moved to limit the press access of outlets Trump disagrees with while amplifying right-wing outlets. It barred entry to The Associated Press when the news wire refused to call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” relenting only after a court order — and only partially. It established a “new media” seat in the press briefing room, whose occupant gets to ask the first question at briefings; it has been populated by both new media ventures and established right-wing media, including Breitbart and The Daily Wire. The White House has also wrested control of the press pool — the reporters assigned to follow Trump and share information with other outlets — away from the White House Correspondents' Association and used that control to cut out newswires, another blow to the AP. This eliminates direct access for hundreds of outlets, including local news, that rely on newswires. And now the Trump administration is threatening to change the seating chart in the briefing room, which currently gives the front two rows to major broadcast networks and papers, including CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Press briefings under the 2nd Trump Administration, led by Karoline Leavitt, favored right-wing outlets and commentators in being picked to ask questions.
Trump administration has transformed tone and tenor of media interactions by centering rightwing voices and reporter sycophancy
David Smith at The Guardian:
“I’ve often said: Trump could cure cancer and people would still criticise him,” observed Brian Glenn, a rightwing reporter standing in the Oval Office. “It’s true,” replied a gratified Donald Trump, sitting behind the Resolute desk.
A few minutes later, as the US president discussed crime in Washington DC, he returned the compliment. “Brian, you got mugged here a long time ago, and the mugger must have felt some pain because you’re a tough cookie,” he said. The pair shared some banter and then, just as Trump was poised to call on a reporter from the Guardian, Glenn interjected and suggested they listen to cancer survivors present at Tuesday’s executive order signing. In a stroke the informal press conference – hours after a pair of incendiary speeches to military generals and before a government shutdown – was effectively over.
It was not the first time that Glenn, who works for the Real America’s Voice platform and is the boyfriend of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman, has played the role of Trump sidekick, a useful foil guaranteed to lighten the atmosphere. It was also a small but telling example of how the White House press corps has changed between Trump’s first and second terms. Seasoned reporters from mainstream media outlets are still asking tough questions. But in the Oval Office, on Air Force One or in the press briefing room, there is no way to avoid the new contingent of Maga (Make America great again) reporters, influencers and podcasters lobbing toothless queries or fawning comments at their favourite president. “They’re hand-picked to protect him and once again it’s another emulation of authoritarian leaders around the world who suppress the free press in order to avoid accountability,” said Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill. “[Trump] surrounds himself with sycophants who ask softball questions that allow him to drone on about nonsense and propaganda and disinformation.”
The White House press corps has been trying to hold presidents accountable without fear or favour since the late 19th century, sometimes with more success than others. It was accused of being too deferential to the George W Bush administration during the Iraq war. But it has also proved dogged, for example, in grilling Barack Obama’s White House over the disastrous rollout of healthcare.gov and a terrorist attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Trump’s first term featured combative exchanges with journalists such as Jim Acosta of CNN, who was temporarily banned from the White House only for his access to be restored following a lawsuit. Some rightwing outlets did appear in the briefing room, but the presidential pool of reporters remained under control of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA).
The second Trump administration, however, has used a variety of tactics to change the tone, tenor and pace of media interactions. The president prefers to use the Oval Office rather than bigger venues like the East Room, “in part because the acoustics are better and he is not forced to stand for long periods”, the New York Times reported. In this setting, he takes questions from a pool of reporters no longer selected by the WHCA, but decided by the White House itself. This has led to the exclusion of news wire agencies but the inclusion of fringe rightwing voices, many of whom are openly supportive of the president.
[...] The second Trump administration has added a seat in the briefing room for “new media”, referring to professional journalists, podcasters and influencers. The person in this seat is always called on first by Leavitt and is often a Maga cheerleader. Among the recent examples was social media personality Benny Johnson, who described his personal experience of crime in Washington and railed against “any reporter that says, and lies, that DC is a safe place to live and work”. He told Leavitt: “Thank you for making the city safe.” Johnson also asked if a so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) staffer known as “Big Balls”, who was recently assaulted in the District, would be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A Media Matters review of the 16 press briefings held from 20 January to 22 April found that Leavitt called on rightwing outlets 41% of the time (110 out of 267) – still less than half but a significant increase from past administrations. Four of the five reporters called on most were from rightwing outlets: the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese, Fox News’s Peter Doocy, the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan and the New York Post’s Diana Glebova. The research also showed that the White House promoted smaller, far-right media over many established outlets, calling on the One America News Network (five times) and the Gateway Pundit (five) more than the Washington Post (four) and Associated Press (three) over that period.
[...] Yet the stalwarts of the US media continue to do the work. TV correspondents such as Yamiche Alcindor and Peter Alexander of NBC News have riled the president – and prompted insults – with their sharp, persistent questions. Maggie Haberman of the New York Times skewered Leavitt over Trump’s birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In the 2nd Trump term, MAGA hacks have taken over the White House Press Corps by muscling out more traditional journalists for prime access to the POTUS and the press briefings.
The AP is on the outs, but these new MAGA media stars are on the rise.
Ian Ward at Politico:
As she left the James S. Brady Briefing Room in early April, Natalie Winters, the newly minted White House correspondent for Steve Bannon’s War Room, tried to describe the relationship between the White House press corps’ old guard and the “new conservative media” who’ve entered the briefing room in the early days of the second Trump administration. “You know when you’re at a party and you see someone who you don’t technically know, but you know them like through a friend from social media, and it’s that awkward question of, like, ‘Do I say hi or do I not?’” Winters told me. “It’s a room full of that, except you know the people because you bash them on TV.” Not that she particularly minds the confrontation. Since securing credentials to cover White House events in January, Winters has distinguished herself as the enfant terrible of the “new media” set, the collection of non-traditional — and mostly MAGA-aligned — outlets that the Trump administration has welcomed to the White House as part of its campaign shake up the briefing room. “We’re the rising power,” Winters said.
Most of the members of the new media have adopted Trump’s hostile relationship to the mainstream media, but Winters goes further than most in her animosity: She has accused other White House reporters of taking part in “CIA psy-ops,” and she believes the liberal media is actively fomenting a “color revolution” against Trump. “They can criticize what we’re doing [at War Room] as, like, state regime propaganda or whatever,” she said as we walked along the National Mall. “But at the end of the day, I’m like, ‘Who’s running cover for the state?’”
Winters’ ire isn’t reserved just for what she views as the liberal parts of the media. “I think the fact that we’re there is almost more of an offense or an affront to [an outlet] like Fox,” she told me as we walked by Peter Doocy, the network’s White House reporter, “because it sort of shows that, like, the base was not appeased.”
The administration’s embrace of alternative conservative outlets continues a pattern from Trump’s first term, but the divide between the MAGA-friendly media and their more mainstream counterparts has become visible in the briefing room in a way it wasn’t before. Without dedicated seats of their own, a group of about a dozen new media reporters have taken to gathering in the “conservative corner” — as some reporters call it — along the far wall of the briefing room, near the “new media seat” that Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has set aside for a rotating cast of alternative outlets and conservative influencers.
The occupants of the conservative corner cut a sharp contrast to their seated colleagues: Many of the reporters in the gaggle are younger than the average White House correspondent, and a handful of them tote around hand-held cameras or other DIY live-streaming equipment. Their fashion choices — flashy ties and steep high heels — stand out in the sea of grey suits and sensible flats. They chatter like old friends (which many of them are from prior reporting gigs) or even romantic partners (which at least two of them are). “It’s a little bit of a who’s who of my friends in the conservative ecosystem that have suddenly popped up in the White House,” said Mary Margaret Olohan, the White House correspondent for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire. Despite their shared sense of opposition to the media mainstream, not all the conservative outlets in the briefing room see eye-to-eye politically: “It’s a broad and diverse group, so not everyone is ideologically aligned,” said Olohan. The competitive nature of the White House beat — and the cramped layout of the briefing room — has also led to some minor kerfuffles among the new media cohort. “There’s a lot of the petty stuff of people being like, ‘When you raised your hand, you blocked my face!’” said Winters.
Their exile to the aisles may soon be over, though. In late March, reports started to trickle out that the White House is formulating plans to take control of the briefing room seating chart from the White House Correspondents Association, a move that many new media members are hoping could land them actual seats. The news had Winters dreaming of more fundamental changes to the briefing room: “Get some Serena and Lily in there, some Restoration Hardware cloud couches, some more pink, some rose gold accents,” she said. “Steve Bannon’s there, front row.” But any changes to the seating chart will merely be symbolic of the deeper shifts in the media dynamics in Trump’s Washington, where the mainstream press is fighting for viewers and relevance while the alternative conservative media steadily expands its audience — and basks in the warm glow of Trump’s affection. “In some ways, the revulsion to the new media people being there [stems from the] fact that we’re like a mirror,” said Winters, “a reflection of the fact that they’re dying.”
Brian Glenn
Real America’s Voice
Chief White House correspondent Brian Glenn was something of a MAGA celebrity even before he called out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit to the White House during the question-and-answer portion of a tense Oval Office meeting in March. But his public needling of the Ukrainian leader instantly raised his stock on the right. [...] The episode was representative of the role that Glenn has played in the MAGA media ecosystem, first as a host for the conservative media company Right Side Broadcasting Network and now as the face of Real America’s Voice, which airs on the right-leaning streaming site Rumble. Glenn, 55, exudes the puckishness of an overgrown frat boy, a reputation that’s been bolstered by his long-term romance with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Cara Castronuova
Lindell TV
Yes, the “MyPillow guy” Mike Lindell has his own TV network — and it’s credentialed at Trump’s White House. But its White House correspondent, Cara Castronuova, might have an even more colorful background than Lindell: After studying journalism in college, Castronuova became a championship boxer and boxing announcer, which she parlayed into a career as a celebrity fitness trainer, including on the NBC reality show Biggest Loser. She has also worked as a stuntwoman and stunt coordinator and voiced characters for the popular video game Grand Theft Auto, according to her IMBd page. Castronuova, 45, decided to turn to political commentary during the pandemic, and she helped organize the “Justice for J6” rally in September 2021 calling for the release of people arrested for participating in the Jan. 6 riots. In late 2024, she was hired by Lindell TV, which Lindell founded last year to cover “election integrity issues.” (Lindell played a major role in spreading false claims about election fraud in 2020 and was subsequently sued by two voting machine companies. The cases are ongoing.)
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Mary Margaret Olohan
The Daily Wire
The Daily Wire has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the conservative media boom, buoyed by the enduring popularity of its founder and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, whose podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show, continues to rake in over 7 million subscribers on YouTube. At the White House, the digital outlet has trained its coverage on the kind of conservative culture-war issues that Shapiro and the Wire’s other big-name hosts have become famous for railing against. [...]
Daniel Baldwin
One America News (OAN)
Trump started praising OAN late in his first term, as his relationship with Fox News began to sour. But the president’s soft spot for the network has seemingly continued into his second term, even as he has mended his relationship with Fox. Its White House correspondent, Daniel Baldwin, operates out of a much-coveted tent on the North Lawn, and its correspondents were recently given a workspace at the Pentagon. The network’s coverage of the White House predates Trump, dating back to OAN’s founding in 2013, but its unapologetically pro-Trump sensibility is right at home in the “new media” ecosystem.
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Monica Paige Luisi
Turning Point USA
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA made headlines during the last election cycle for its sprawling get-out-the-vote effort in key swing states, and the organization’s media arm has been rewarded with a coveted spot in the briefing room to cover Trump. The group’s White House correspondent, Monica Paige Luisi, is an alum of OAN and Newsmax who said she’s especially focused on covering the economic issues that matter to TPUSA’s college-aged audience: “College-age students who are looking ahead to their futures and really want to know, Will I be able to afford a home when I graduate college?” she told me. In response to Trump’s recent tariff announcement, for instance, she posted a meme on X with the caption, “yay ❤️.”
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Matt Boyle
Breitbart
Breitbart isn’t exactly new, having been on the White House beat since its erstwhile leader, Steve Bannon, became the chief ideologue behind Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. But after falling on hard times following Bannon’s ouster from the White House in 2017, Breitbart is back in a big way under the second Trump administration. The website’s White House correspondent, Nick Gilbertson, is a staple of the briefing room, and its Washington bureau chief, Matt Boyle, is the administration’s go-to reporter for chummy on-the-record interviews with Cabinet-level officials — which Breitbart often publishes as straight write-ups with minimal editorializing.
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Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
The Daily Signal
Founded in 2014 as the in-house publication of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, The Daily Signal spun off as an independent publication in 2024. Still, the outlet’s coverage reflects the ideological sensibility of the Heritage Foundation under its current president, Kevin Roberts, who has moved away from Heritage’s traditional commitment to small-government, free-market conservatism in favor of a kind of MAGA-lite populism. The outlet’s White House correspondent, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, is a former Fox News intern and graduate of the conservative liberal arts mecca Hillsdale College.
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Natalie Winters
War Room
Steve Bannon’s internet show has extended its reach from Rumble into the briefing room, led by the 24-year-old Winters. She started co-hosting War Room while Bannon was in prison in 2024 for defying a Congressional subpoena, and has since become the polarizing face of the new conservative media set, thanks in large part to her edgy online persona and flashy wardrobe: In January, Winters kicked off a transparently sexist tabloid fury after she showed up to a White House briefing wearing a somewhat coquettish shirt-and-sweater combo.
Politico reports on 8 MAGA media influencers who show up to the White House Press Briefings under Karoline Leavitt. Those 8 rotate for spots in the “new media” seat(s).
