MAGA Influencers Now Have Their Own Special White House Briefings
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"My Uber drivers finally speak English again," one pro-Trump influencer eagerly told White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
For the third day in a row Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt hosted a special press briefing for pro-Donald Trump influencers, who heaped praise on the president’s policies, cracked anti-immigrant jokes and asked Leavitt for parenting advice as she showered them with compliments in return.
“We are embracing and empowering new media like never before. You are all a testament to that,” she said Wednesday at the third such “influencer briefing,” as she called it.
“The Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution. Tens of millions of Americans are now turning to social media and independent media outlets to consume their news, and we are embracing that change, not ignoring it,” she said at the first influencer briefing Monday.
“A select group of D.C.-based journalists no longer have a monopoly over press access here at the White House,” she continued.
But the sessions have unfolded less like an auxiliary press briefing and more like a gathering of pro-Trump propagandists and conspiracy theorists licking Leavitt’s boots and parroting Trump’s favorite talking points.
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