Trump White House invites a bloc of conservative podcasters as a jab at legacy media

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters during a property briefing astatine the White House connected March 26, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. | Photo by Andrew Thomas via Getty Images

On Thursday, respective blimpish podcasters were invited to the White House to enactment successful Podcast Row, an lawsuit meant to prosecute alternate media by granting them hours of unprecedented entree to elder Trump Administration officials. The White House intends to marque this a recurring event. 

“Bringing successful caller media outlets has evidently been a precedence of this medication and we volition research each options that let america to scope arsenic galore Americans arsenic possible,” Kaelan Dorr, White House Deputy Communications Director, told The Verge. 

According to NewsNation analogous Libbey Dean, medication attendees included Cabinet and Cabinet-level officials Lee Zeldin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Linda McMahon, Scott Bessent, Russ Vought, arsenic good arsenic outgoing Counselor Alina Habba, who was precocious tapped to service arsenic interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Online figures streaming from the country included Natalie Winters from Bannon’s War Room, Canadian YouTuber David Freiheit, and podcaster Breanna Morello. 

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.