Donald Trump is considering giving the likes of Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly a seat in the White House press briefing room instead of mainstream media journalists in a plot that will ‘blow up some heads’.
The stunning plan was revealed by the president-elect’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. on a recent episode of his podcast ‘Triggered with Donald Trump Jr.’
Speaking to his co-host Michael Knowles, Jr. admitted that the incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt may rework the briefing room seating arrangement to make way for Trump’s new podcast ‘bro’ buddies.
‘I wonder now, as your father is assembling his team, as maybe Karoline Leavitt is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it’s time to reorder that chart and maybe take away some people’s seats,’ Knowles inquired.
The future president’s son quickly shot back: ‘We’re gonna break some news here.’
‘I literally had this conversation with—I was flying back, I was on the plane with my father, I think it was coming back from the SpaceX launch with Elon [Musk] last week,’ Jr. said.
‘And we were talking about the podcast world and some of our friends and Rogan and guys like you.’
Then the 46-year-old Trump revealed the podcaster plan was met with great enthusiasm, ‘That’s a great idea, Don.’
‘And so that may be in the works,’ Jr. continued. ‘That’s going to blow up some heads, so we’ll see.’
Jr. reasoned that non-traditional voices should be given a chance to sit in on the briefings since consumer trust in mainstream outlets is plummeting, and he mentioned how many of them are overtly biased against his family.
‘If the New York Times has lied, they’ve been adverse to everything, they’re functioning as the marketing arm of the Democrat Party, why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?’ Jr. said.
The only individuals actually floated for a spot in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room were Knowles and Rogan, but considering there are only 49 seats in the prestigious West Wing chamber, giving away any spots would certainly cause a stir among the press corps.
Still, though the White House is in charge of issuing credentials to journalists, the actual seating arrangement in the briefing room is decided by the White House Correspondents’ Association – which operated independently of the administration.
During his first term in office, Trump banned certain reporters from briefings, most notably CNN’s Jim Acosta.
Though after a legal showdown with the network the White House backed off and restored Acosta’s credentials.
Unlike his relationships with the White House press corps., the president-elect appeared to quickly befriend podcasters when appearing on their shows.
Trump had genial conversations with Rogan, comedian Theo Von and streamer Adin Ross while pushing his campaign’s message to younger men across the country.
The appearances quickly amassed tens of millions of views and garnered a slew of mostly positive press coverage from the appearances.
Media outlets, this one included, scoured the episodes for newsy and outlandish morsels like Trump’s beliefs on whether there is life on Mars or whether he really could eliminate the federal income tax.
Rogan even admitted he was surprised with the president-elect”s easy adaptation to the hours-long format.
‘He’s got this ability to just keep going. This is what’s crazy, like the podcast was three hours long,’ Rogan reflected after their sit-down.
‘The guy didn’t pee before the podcast. He didn’t pee after the podcast. He just left,’ Rogan said in amazement.