Not satisfied with banning a few media companies from covering him at official presidential events, it is now being reported that Donald Trump has actually been pushing to ban the entire press corps from the White House, and turn the WH Press Briefing Room into an indoor swimming pool.

Click here to post this article on Twitter/X or Click here to post on Bluesky

Since his reoccupation of the White House, Trump has acted on the worst impulses of his massive yet fragile ego by taking revenge on journalists who dared to engage in honest and accurate criticism of him. His vengeance manifested in unlawfully terminating the First Amendment rights of the Associated Press, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, all of whom he is trying desperately to prohibit from covering his presidency.

SEE THIS: Trump Says He Banned the Media Because it is a ‘Threat to National Security and Must Be Stopped’

The latest news about Trump’s animosity toward the free press comes in an article by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times headlined ““Trump Pushes to Evict the Press From the White House.“ The article describes how far down the road to fascist media suppression Trump has already gone.

“In late August, during one of Karoline Leavitt’s final meetings with President Trump in the Oval Office, he pitched her on an idea in front of several senior aides. He told her to move reporters out of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, which would effectively remove news organizations from the White House. It would be, he told her, her ‘last legacy.’

“But the proposal never moved forward while she was there. The president had put the request to her several times over months, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.” […]

“During earlier discussions, most of Mr. Trump’s senior aides agreed it served him better to keep the media nearby. But Mr. Trump has grown more enraged about his press coverage, and other advisers of growing influence have encouraged him to take drastic measures to punish journalists.”

Clearly Trump despises the free press and is determined to cause as much harm to it as he can. And even as he craves its attention to satiate his malignant narcissism, his obsession with silencing any and all negative accounts of his many failures takes precedence.

Notice that the arguments made by Trump’s aides to keep the media in the White House were centered on what “served him better,” rather than what served the American people or the Constitution. None of which the MAGA regime cares about.

It is also notable that Trump’s fixation on throwing out the press comes after he had already taken control of who is permitted into the press room, and his Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, had repopulated it with far-right, radical, lunatics like Breitbart, One America News, and Lindell TV.

No one should take comfort in the fact that Trump has yet to sweep all of the media out of the White House. He is still likely battling with his own hatred of the press and his addiction to attention. Coupled with his incompetence, it is not surprising that he hasn’t completed his media cleansing. But he is nothing if not persistent, and will surely keep trying. Hopefully the press will keep reporting no matter how deranged Trump gets.

RELATED STORIES:

• Trump’s FCC Boss Threatens to Punish Media for Reporting Polls that Show How Unpopular Trump Is
• Trump Sics His ‘Justice’ Dept on the TV Networks He Banned for Defending the First Amendment
• Trump Says the Media are ‘Sick, Treasonous, Demented’ ‘SLEAZEBAGS’ – Because They Cover Him?

Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse
on Twitter/X and Facebook and Bluesky and Threads.

And check out my books on Amazon:

Fox Nation vs. Reality:
The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.

Thanks so much for your support.