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The press secretary has been taking friendly, made-for-camera questions at “new media” press briefings that are separate from the ones involving the White House press pool<\/p>\n
White House press secretary\u00a0Karoline Leavitt<\/a>\u00a0took the podium on Monday, April 28, for a new kind of briefing \u2014 this one to a room full of “new media” MAGA influencers eager to get social media soundbites.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is our first influencer briefing,\u201d Leavitt announced.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I promised in my first briefing as press secretary back in January, the Trump White House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media who traditionally has covered this institution,\u201d she said. \u201cAll journalists, outlets and voices have a seat at the table now.\u201d<\/p>\n The first new media briefing came just over two weeks after\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>‘s administration\u00a0removed the designated position for wire services<\/a>\u00a0in the daily press pool rotation \u2014 its latest strike against The Associated Press. Trump banned the AP from White House coverage in February for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the \u201cGulf of America\u201d in its coverage.<\/p>\n