“Ruthless” podcast co-host John Ashbrook made a giant splash at Friday’s White Home press briefing as a member of the “new media” the Trump administration has welcomed, to the chagrin of some reporters.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt kicked off the briefing by revealing President Trump’s press workplace had acquired “greater than 10,000” purposes for the not too long ago introduced “new media seats,” reserved for “impartial journalists, podcasters, social media influencers and content material creators.”
She then rolled out the pink carpet for Ashbook to ask the primary query of the day from the brand new media seat. He took the chance to ask if the legacy media is “out of contact” with the American folks.
“In your first briefing, the media went after this administration for deporting unlawful immigrants they claimed weren’t criminals,” Ashbrook started. “The query is, do you assume they’re out of contact with People demanding motion on our border disaster?”
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“Ruthless” podcast co-host John Ashbrook requested the primary query because the member of the “new media” on the White Home press briefing on Friday Jan. 31, 2025. (Screenshot/White Home)
“The media out of ouch?” Leavitt responded with a smile. “I believe that media is actually is out of contact and I believe that is confirmed by plenty of issues, John.”
Leavitt went on to level to a New York Occasions ballot exhibiting “83%” of People supported deportations of violent legal unlawful immigrants, including that “97%” of the deportations carried out by the Trump administration up to now had deportation orders from the earlier administration, in line with ICE.Â
Ashbook, a former marketing campaign strategist to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., make clear what it was wish to be within the briefing room throughout an look on “The Will Cain Present” that afternoon.Â
“I’ve interacted with a variety of these identical reporters as a press secretary again within the day. So, after I walked into the room, I noticed a variety of eye rolls and a variety of smirks and that’s precisely what I hoped for, Will,” Ashbrook instructed Fox Information’ Will Cain.Â
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Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook co-host the favored conservative “Ruthless” podcast. (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox Information Digital)
“On the Ruthless Selection Program, we don’t take ourselves too severely. We wish to have enjoyable and ship data in a humorous approach… I hoped to have slightly little bit of a lighter second in there and I believe we had it.”Â
The “Ruthless” co-host praised the White Home’s embrace of “new media,” saying Leavitt and her staff are ensuring that “we the folks have a voice inside that room.”Â
“It is a brand-new day within the media,” he added.
“Ruthless” podcast co-host John Ashbrook instructed Fox Information’ Will Cain that different reporters had “eye rolls” and “smirks” seeing him within the White Home briefing room. (Fox Information Channel)
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“When Elon Musk declared ‘you’re the media now,’ the Ruthless Podcast took it to coronary heart. It was a stroke of genius by this White Home to include extra voices within the briefing room,” Ashbrook instructed Fox Information Digital. “Yet one more approach President Trump is holding his promise to vary Washington, and an enormous alternative for we the folks to have a voice in our authorities.”
