How Trump can Reform the "Mean Girls" White House Press Corps

Stop giving power to the fake news.

On television, the White House briefing room looks impressive. Inside, it’s full of petty gossipers, fake news purveyors, and high-school level politics. There are many ways that the fake news media rigs the press briefings, and here is how you can reform it.

The White House Correspondents Association hate Trump supporters and wanted them to be attacked.

During my stint in journalism, I broke significant stories ranging from Susan Rice’s abuse of her powers as National Security Adviser, to the sexual harassment scandals of members of Congress. I also successfully sued to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein files. By any objective metric, I am more of a reporter than any of my small-minded haters and stalkers, such as Sam Harris. My journalistic travels brought me to the White House during Trump’s first administration.

After a Trump-era press briefing, I asked the members of the WHCA why they refused to report on cases of violence against Trump supporters. The room erupted in laughter.

Kristen Welker of MSNBC approached me with violence in her eyes. She saw I had cameras rolling to protect me from psychopaths like her, and from false accusations. (Multiple members of the WHCA complained to the White House Press staff. Video evidence cleared me of the lies that members of the fake news media tried to tell about me.)

Look at this demonic stare. (You can watch the full video here.) Is this the kind of person you can trust to cover the next Trump administration with honesty and integrity?

How the White House Correspondents Association protects the narrative and silences independent media.

The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has the power to control seat assignments and credentialing. When you walk inside the briefing room, it’s not first come, first served for seating. Privileged members of regime media are sat in the front row. Independent media, if they can even attend the briefing with a “day pass,” must stand in the aisles.

The WHCA controls who gets full-time passes (called hard passes). These are tightly regulated, and its used as a way to shut out reporters who do not go along with the establishment propaganda.

The wildly successful Saagar Enjeti of Breaking Points describes how the WHCA shuts the door to honest and independent media.

I’ll give you my experience.

When I wanted to attend a White House press briefing, I had to email the White House. Sometimes they wouldn’t reply until the last minute, so I’d have to sit around near the White House waiting. If they were diligent, they’d put me on a list of approved names to attend that day’s briefing. I’d wait in a long line. Sometimes I’d be banned from entering. This infamously happened when HR McMaster was giving a press briefing.

There might be room for me to stand, or there might not be. This uncertainty meant I didn’t travel from California to DC as often as I would have been able to under a fair process.

In one case, I was followed out while leaving the White House. A CNN contributor began putting his sausage fingers in my face, hoping to provoke me to anger. He did not understand that I have self-discipline and mental control. This never should have happened, and if I had chased someone around, you can bet there’d have been a front page story about this at WaPo or NYT. (Watch the full video of Cernovich keeping his composure, as he always does.)

The WHCA is controlled by hypocrites and purveyors of fake news.

During Covid, multiple WHCA members would take their masks off when the cameras cut away from them. CNN’s own Kaitlin Collins demanded everyone wear a mask, and she’d pretend to. Once filming stopped, she unmasked and went around breathing normally.

Collins recently reported fake news about Trump’s agriculture secretary. Brooke Rolling, not Kelly Loeffler, was nominated for Secretary of Agriculture. Collins has not explained why she reported disinformation. Nor has she burned her source, which is what legal ethics requires a reporter to do when a source has fed them false information.

Jon Karl, who served as President of the WHCA, would unmask when he didn’t know he was being watched.

These are not honest brokers. They don’t deserve their privileged status inside White House grounds.

How Trump can fix the press briefings.

Step 1. Eliminate the WHCA totally, or else demand that they assign seating based on a lottery system. Saagar Enjeti and other independent journalists would be eligible for priority seating as hard passes. The lottery would need to be supervised by an auditor, as the WHCA would rig it.

Step 2. Close off White House grounds to members of the WHCA except when a briefing is occuring. Most of what occurs on White House grounds is clout chasing. News outlets want the backdrop of the White House to make themselves seem more important and official. There’s no reason for these petty gossips to be roaming around unsupervised.

Step 3. Demand the WHCA audit the reporting of its members, to ensure accuracy. The WHCA is supposed to keep its members in check, much like a State Bar organization. There must be a full audit of every story and report. This audit should be conducted independently. WHCA members have published dozens of articles and posts on X, which contain false information. Accountability is required for trust to be restored.

Step 4. Award one seat to X. X is the most powerful and used media platform in the world. X could allow different independent journalists to use the seat, on a week-by-week basis. If Joe Rogan was in town, he could attend. If Saagar Enjeti wanted the seat, he could have it. X should have its own assigned seat, just as the AP, NYT, MSNBC, and other far-left wing outlets have.

I’d rather see press briefings ended totally. Trump enjoys the theatre too much, so the best we can push for is reform.

Donald Trump Jr’s approach is a great way to square the circle. Defang the WHCA, empower independent media, and let freedom of speech reign supreme.