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NextImg:Donald Trump Jr. says podcasters may be in White House press room’s future

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that his father, President-elect Donald Trump, would boot legacy media out of the White House briefing room in favor of podcasters.

Don Jr. hinted at that Monday on his Rumble show “Triggered” after The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles asked about how the Trump transition team was handling various aspects.

“So we’re going to break some news here,” Mr. Trump Jr. said, adding that he just talked about this topic with his father and Elon Musk while coming back from the SpaceX launch last week.



“We had the conversation,” he said, “about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists. … Why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?”

He said the idea of switching out mainstream media outlets for podcasters like Joe Rogan “may be in the works.”

The White House typically doesn’t choose who gets a seat in the briefing room. The White House Correspondents’ Association board has been assigning seats since the Reagan administration, according to its website. The seats number 49 now.

When deciding who gets a seat, the board will look into how long the outlet has had a White House beat and its audience.

The front row is reserved for The Associated Press, NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, Reuters and CNN. The second row holds The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today and CBS News Radio.

Any journalist can attend the briefing without an assigned seat, as long as he or she has the correct credentials, issued by the White House Press Office.

One way the president has a say in the press briefing room process is through his press secretary, who starting Jan. 20 will be Karoline Leavitt.