September 22, 2026

TrumpTV.

Background: "After Years as the Star of Must-See TV, Trump Faces the Sting of Cancellation/A boycott of the White House press pool by the major networks deprives the president of the oxygen of screen time. But he is still finding ways to get on the air" (NYT gift link).

So you get it: He doesn't need the fake-news networks. He's got a YouTube channel. Yeah, so do I....

23 comments:

RCOCEAN II said...

Good for Trump. I don't miss Trump on Fox News. Probably because I never watch fox news. I have no idea why Republicans keep going on and keeping that clown network afloat.

Ann Althouse said...

I haven't watched the news on network TV since Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time — 1981.

rehajm said...

all that depriving President Trump of oxygen- not a metaphor…

rehajm said...

…so he’s being sued for access at the same time they’re not using their access? I christen that move a Rosie O’Donnell. I give it less than a week before they cave…

RCOCEAN II said...

Fox only gets 2 million in primetime on average. Per Grok, only 24 percent of Americans watch TV news on a daily basis. No wonder Trump isn't upset at the boycott.

RCOCEAN II said...

Nice to know that Fox News is sticking up for CNN. Because it wouldn't happen the other way round. But then Fox News is part of the MSM - they fired Roger Ailes and put Paul Ryan on their Board, and its now just the Mitt Romney network.

Mary Beth said...

It is so much easier for me to tune into a YouTube channel than it is to find where/if I can stream a news channel. I don't have cable and don't want to pay for the "live TV" services on streaming platforms.

D.D. Driver said...

Anyone else ever see the movie Idiocracy?

D.D. Driver said...

I actually don't really have a problem with a CSPAN like YouTube channel. But a government propaganda channel with Family Guy clips? Come on, MAGA? Really, guys? You fuckers get horny for this cringy shit? Don't you feel pathetic?

J L Oliver said...

Wine colored sea! Just finished rereading the Odyssey!

Dust Bunny Queen said...

I like the idea of seeing events, speeches, etc in a live mode....instead of selected out of context clips, is a good one. When you take things out of context...... only report what you want and hide the rest of the context that you don't want the public to see.....all we get on the receiving/watching end is distortion and lies.

This is why Trump and almost every other person in the public eye is leery of (hates) the media. They lie and distort.

I want to see the original content and make up MY own mind. Not be nudged or told what to believe.

Peachy+2 said...

Democrat Soviet press- you know the guys who go fishing with Newsum.. The press who gather around saint Hillary in an airplane, and hang on her every word and look at her longingly - almost with worshipful desire.
The press who admires the crease in Obama's pants.

Not an oldster. said...

You're no trump.

Not an oldster. said...

Lol althouse @ 853...

It shows.

Peachy+2 said...

Fox News has some great programming. The Five is popular and so is Gutfeld.

Islam and leftism - they have all sorts of Media - including Hasan Piker - who lives in a 3 million dollar mansion and who electrocutes his own dog.

Peachy+2 said...

THE SOROS SOVIET MEDIA BANNED TRUMP FROM SOCIAL MEDIA - OVER THEIR OWN LIES.

Joe Bar said...

I have popcorn.

Peachy+2 said...

I would allow CNN and Politico back - just never call on them.
BS NOW isn't actual news.

Temujin said...

Man...everyone really does have a YouTube channel.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Boycott of the press pool deprives Trump of screen time???
I didn't realize that President Trump conducted the White House press briefing. I guess he must have taken that over when Karoline Leavitt left. Rubio would have but he was too busy being the new King of Greenland to do it.

Peachy+2 said...

ABC is a joke. Right up there with BS NOW

Fred Drinkwater said...

White House press corps reporting has been utterly useless, or deliberately obscurantist, for decades. Bring back the swimming pool!

Hombre said...

Really? So the response of the mediaswine to excluding some of them from the press room is to cut him off from the public? Well that will make it easier for them to lie.

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