Trump is dragging the White House press corps into the gutter [View all]

Trump is dragging the White House press corps into the gutter
I guess the barrage of lies and insults aren't enough. Now Trump wants the media's complete submission

By Brian Karem
White House columnist
Published December 5, 2025 6:30AM (EST)


(Salon) Never forget: Each and every week, Donald Trump gets worse.

His regime is a ladder into a bottomless pit, a place that, as Hunter S. Thompson once said of journalism, is “a cruel and shallow money trench … a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.”

In the latest round of professional malfeasance, the president’s sycophants in the communications office have launched a “Media Bias Portal” on the official White House website. They are encouraging people to give them “tips” when the public believes a member of the press has produced “Fake News.” Naturally, I took the opportunity to fill out the page and offered the White House a tip that its own communication staff is publishing “fake news.” I wonder how long I’ll be waiting for a response.

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Trump is now in the end stages of his campaign to destroy free speech, independent media and all forms of dissent. He’s like the WWE Undertaker in the White House — which fits the bill nicely since the head of his communications staff, Steven Cheung, formerly worked with the WWE and loves to play the bully with members of a young and inexperienced press corps.

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There is a good reason reporters haven’t stood up to defend one another during the current administration. Trump has engineered an inexperienced, sycophantic press corps. It’s handicapped from the moment reporters begin asking him questions, and Trump gets bolder, less professional and increasingly confrontational every time he appears before a pool spray, largely because of his success in undermining the Fourth Estate. ..................(more)

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