Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 9-21: Will President Trump's White House Press Ban Backfire?
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- 0:03Speaker 1: I think we figured out why they haven't named a
- 0:05Speaker 1: new White House press secretary yet. They probably don't need
- 0:08Speaker 1: one for a little while. There's not going to be
- 0:10Speaker 1: any press, at least most of the press, in the
- 0:14Speaker 1: Oval Office anytime soon or the White House press briefing room.
- 0:17Speaker 1: That's right. The president's ban on the press, the White
- 0:21Speaker 1: House press corps, over the weekend. Now, as you know,
- 0:24Speaker 1: if you know anything about me, you've been with me
- 0:26Speaker 1: for a while, my OGs, I shed zero tears, none
- 0:30Speaker 1: at all, for the fake news. None whatsoever, these propagandists.
- 0:34Speaker 1: My whole operating system is such that I think 95%
- 0:38Speaker 1: of the problems we have right now in this country, society,
- 0:42Speaker 1: the world, is because we don't have a free press,
- 0:44Speaker 1: because they've been completely taken over by propagandists. Or they
- 0:48Speaker 1: were always like that. If we had a free press
- 0:50Speaker 1: that would hold Republicans and Democrats accountable, and government officials
- 0:55Speaker 1: and businesses accountable, It would be great. Unfortunately, we don't.
- 0:59Speaker 1: So I shed no tears for them whatsoever. But let's
- 1:04Speaker 1: talk strategy. Let's get out of that for a second
- 1:06Speaker 1: and pretend that we just landed on this planet and
- 1:08Speaker 1: we're just looking at this president right now and you're
- 1:10Speaker 1: looking at strategy, right? As far as being a good move,
- 1:14Speaker 1: is it a smart move or isn't? Here's the question.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Will President Trump's so-called White House press ban backfire on him?
- 1:24Speaker 1: Let's try to figure that out because I got to
- 1:25Speaker 1: tell you, And this may change. So far, I think
- 1:30Speaker 1: it's a bad move. I mean, this may change by
- 1:32Speaker 1: the time we're done recording this. But, I mean, so far,
- 1:34Speaker 1: I think it's a bad move. And I'll tell you why. Anyway,
- 1:37Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let's find out what's going on
- 1:39Speaker 1: with that. Thanks for finding me. I appreciate you. I
- 1:41Speaker 1: hope it was an awesome weekend, despite all this stuff.
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- 1:54Speaker 1: at all. Where most of you find it on there.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Same for the audio podcast. Always uploaded shortly after the
- 1:58Speaker 1: live stream. Let's get right to it. It all started
- 2:00Speaker 1: with a Truth Social post, which is where all this
- 2:02Speaker 1: stuff happens. And when it ends with, thank you for
- 2:05Speaker 1: your attention to this matter, that's when President Trump ends
- 2:08Speaker 1: one where he's really happy with himself. I think we
- 2:10Speaker 1: know enough now. We can put enough evidence together to
- 2:12Speaker 1: know when he's really proud of a movie he's making.
- 2:15Speaker 1: And this is why his Truth Social account is where
- 2:19Speaker 1: most presidential news is breaking these days. And that goes
- 2:22Speaker 1: back to that media as well. Worry posts over the weekend.
- 2:25Speaker 1: I'm proud to announce that effective immediately. I'm banning fake news, CNN, MSNOW,
- 2:30Speaker 1: in parentheses, who recently changed their name from MSNBC to
- 2:33Speaker 1: lack of viewership and credibility and political, another parentheses, the
- 2:37Speaker 1: recipient of an illegal and ridiculous $ 8 million subscription, an
- 2:41Speaker 1: all-time record directly from the United States government under crooked
- 2:44Speaker 1: Joe Biden. Made a little comment there. In order to
- 2:48Speaker 1: keep them alive, seems like corruption from me, from the
- 2:50Speaker 1: White House, and ends with, Thank you for your attention
- 2:55Speaker 1: to this matter. Didn't say anything about Fox, but even
- 2:58Speaker 1: Fox News' Jackie Heinrich, who I like to call the
- 3:01Speaker 1: Heinrich Maneuver, apparently she's president of the White House Press Corps.
- 3:05Speaker 1: There's some sort of a group, association, whatever. She's all
- 3:07Speaker 1: twisted off about this, too, for Fox News, and yet
- 3:09Speaker 1: they're not part of the band, which I thought was interesting. Then,
- 3:12Speaker 1: of course, before it took effect immediately, maybe this is
- 3:15Speaker 1: their last appearance, here's the actual questions in the Oval
- 3:19Speaker 1: Office as he answered, What's behind this? Why are you
- 3:22Speaker 1: doing this?
- 3:23Speaker 2: Why?
- 3:23Speaker 3: Why?
- 3:24Speaker 1: Is it a ban? What's going on, sir?
- 3:26Speaker 4: Earlier today, you posted that you intend to ban CNN,
- 3:29Speaker 4: Politico and MSNOW from the White House. Every president takes
- 3:34Speaker 4: an oath to uphold the Constitution.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Which includes the First Amendment.
- 3:38Speaker 1: How do you justify it?
- 3:39Speaker 3: Much more so than you. Because they're fake news. You
- 3:45Speaker 3: get so tired of reading and seeing fake news. When
- 3:49Speaker 3: you look at CNN, it's just fake. That's why their
- 3:52Speaker 3: ratings are no good. When you look at MSNBC, which
- 3:56Speaker 3: some people call MSDNC, Democratic National Committee, it's fake news.
- 4:06Speaker 3: It's fake news. And when you look at Politico, I mean,
- 4:12Speaker 3: they got it.
- 4:13Speaker 1: And you went through all of them, but I got
- 4:14Speaker 1: to go to the reporter's question right there. Because this
- 4:16Speaker 1: is the, this is the, it happened immediately and it's
- 4:19Speaker 1: all from them. And this kind of circles back to
- 4:20Speaker 1: the original question. Are they propped? or are they news gatherers?
- 4:25Speaker 1: What are they? And immediately, they started with this. You
- 4:29Speaker 1: have a constitutional duty to uphold the First Amendment. That
- 4:32Speaker 1: was the first piece of fake news already in a
- 4:34Speaker 1: story that's about the fake news. This is not a
- 4:37Speaker 1: First Amendment issue, because obviously, even as of this morning,
- 4:40Speaker 1: on Monday morning, they're talking about and covering the president,
- 4:43Speaker 1: just not, as is in their First Amendment right, just
- 4:47Speaker 1: not from the White House press pool tents, whatever the
- 4:50Speaker 1: hell they have there. This is not a First Amendment issue.
- 4:53Speaker 1: You don't have a constitutional right to determine where you
- 4:56Speaker 1: cover the president. It's a privilege, that's for sure. They're
- 5:00Speaker 1: still going to cover the president. There's no First Amendment
- 5:04Speaker 1: violation that's happening here, okay? So that's the first thing.
- 5:08Speaker 1: But here's the other question we have to ask. Okay,
- 5:10Speaker 1: is it real, though? Is this just because you heard
- 5:12Speaker 1: reporters in the Oval Office after he sent out the
- 5:14Speaker 1: Truth Social post, are they really banned? Is it really happening,
- 5:17Speaker 1: or is this just much to do about nothing?
- 5:20Speaker 5: Well.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I'm sorry I chuckled about this, but here's an MS
- 5:25Speaker 1: Now reporter from her weekend report saying, She couldn't get in. Yeah, Eugene, I.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Arrived here, as I do many days of the week,
- 5:32Speaker 4: many weekends, and I walked through the first entrance gate.
- 5:36Speaker 6: I said good morning to the officers.
- 5:37Speaker 4: I was able to walk through freely.
- 5:39Speaker 6: Then I entered the second gate with no issues. I
- 5:42Speaker 6: showed my badge.
- 5:43Speaker 4: And then once I was inside where we have magnetometers,
- 5:47Speaker 4: I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to do,
- 5:50Speaker 4: and able to get into the White House grounds. It
- 5:53Speaker 4: did not work.
- 5:53Speaker 2: There was a red beeping light, and so the officer asked.
- 5:56Speaker 1: The badge didn't work. I'm sorry. There's something comical, okay,
- 6:03Speaker 1: maybe at least just to me, about these people who
- 6:05Speaker 1: thought they were running the world. They thought they were
- 6:08Speaker 1: running the White House, and all of a sudden their
- 6:10Speaker 1: badge doesn't work. It can't actually happen. So that part
- 6:13Speaker 1: of what we know, these reporters who are trying to
- 6:16Speaker 1: get in with the press credentials, that actually was happening.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Is it long-term? I don't know. But the outrage is fantastic,
- 6:24Speaker 1: and it's in this outrage or fake outrage, whatever it is,
- 6:27Speaker 1: and the people speaking out about it. that's most revealing.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Just like with the first reporter who said, you have
- 6:33Speaker 1: a duty to uphold the First Amendment. Not a First
- 6:37Speaker 1: Amendment issue. And then you have, of all people, of
- 6:40Speaker 1: anybody that could have commented on this, it happens to
- 6:44Speaker 1: be Barry Obama, the last possible person that should be
- 6:49Speaker 1: talking about banning the White House press corps from anything.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Here he was, He had a scheduled speech over the
- 6:56Speaker 1: weekend somewhere, one of these Washington think tanks, and here
- 6:59Speaker 1: he was. Oh, he's just outraged. I couldn't imagine something
- 7:02Speaker 1: like this actually happening. I couldn't imagine. Well, we'll get
- 7:05Speaker 1: to exactly what he did here in a second, but
- 7:07Speaker 1: here he was.
- 7:09Speaker 5: Could not foresee some of the stuff that's going on
- 7:13Speaker 5: right now. I believe there was just an announcement that
- 7:15Speaker 5: the White House decided.
- 7:18Speaker 1: You know what?
- 7:19Speaker 5: CNN, MSN, MSNOW, Maybe the New York Times was included.
- 7:28Speaker 5: You just can't come to the White House press briefings anymore.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Oh, he's outraged, isn't he? I could not imagine. I
- 7:36Speaker 1: could not foresee something like this. Some of the stuff
- 7:38Speaker 1: going on right now. Really? You couldn't? You of all people.
- 7:42Speaker 1: You of all people, Barry. You couldn't imagine this? Well,
- 7:45Speaker 1: let's reel back the time machine for a second because
- 7:47Speaker 1: he's really good at this, isn't he? He's really good
- 7:49Speaker 1: at forgetting something that happened in his own administration. And
- 7:52Speaker 1: he does that a lot. And he's speaking towards these days. Well,
- 7:55Speaker 1: let's rewind to 2011, where it was under serious consideration
- 8:00Speaker 1: and they did everything they possibly could to get one
- 8:03Speaker 1: particular news outlet banned from the White House covering his administration.
- 8:07Speaker 1: And that was Fox News. here's we're getting.
- 8:09Speaker 6: Word of brand new documents from a public interest watchdog
- 8:12Speaker 6: group about the obama administration's handling of the media emails
- 8:16Speaker 6: obtained by judicial watch suggest the white house deliberately excluded
- 8:20Speaker 6: fox news from interviews met to inform the american public
- 8:24Speaker 6: boxes jim ankle picks up his developing story from washington
- 8:26Speaker 6: what do we know jim what.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Do we know jim isn't that something the very same
- 8:29Speaker 1: thing they've tried to ban they tried to ban fox
- 8:32Speaker 1: news and yet here's obama in the year twenty twenty
- 8:34Speaker 1: six and i could not imagine some of the things
- 8:37Speaker 1: Going on right now. I could not imagine. He's really
- 8:40Speaker 1: good at that. He's really good at playing to the crowd,
- 8:42Speaker 1: which has no idea. They really just go to. And
- 8:45Speaker 1: it goes to our news sources, doesn't it? And it's
- 8:47Speaker 1: always been said. You'll hear it as if you're a
- 8:50Speaker 1: conservative person, you hear it all the time. Oh, well,
- 8:53Speaker 1: you just get that from Fox News. It's the number
- 8:56Speaker 1: one pushback you'll always get from somebody. And as you know,
- 8:59Speaker 1: and I know, and everybody else does, conservatives, just patriotic Americans,
- 9:04Speaker 1: probably watch Fox News the least. Probably, because you know
- 9:09Speaker 1: exactly what they're going to say. You know exactly what
- 9:11Speaker 1: the playing card is going to be. You know exactly
- 9:12Speaker 1: what's going on. We have, by default, had to seek
- 9:16Speaker 1: other news sources to find out what's going on. I
- 9:18Speaker 1: keep an eye on MSNOW and CNN and ABC and
- 9:21Speaker 1: CBS to see what they're doing. I know what Fox
- 9:23Speaker 1: News is doing. I just do that for entertainment. That's
- 9:26Speaker 1: most people. Yet the pushback is always, you just, well,
- 9:29Speaker 1: you watch Fox.
- 9:30Speaker 5: News, well.
- 9:31Speaker 1: That's always the pushback, and it's always so wrong because
- 9:35Speaker 1: they can't think beyond that. They can't think beyond the
- 9:37Speaker 1: surface level. So there's a history of this, but it
- 9:41Speaker 1: gets a little darker than that now that we're talking
- 9:43Speaker 1: about Barry Obama. And I call him Barry Obama because
- 9:46Speaker 1: the Democrats refuse to call President Trump President Trump. It's
- 9:49Speaker 1: always Donald Trump. So as long as they're doing that,
- 9:51Speaker 1: I'm calling him Barry Obama. So not only that, there
- 9:55Speaker 1: was also a concerted effort, and this happened. It's not bilaterally. opinion.
- 10:01Speaker 1: This is proven in court records and in a court case.
- 10:04Speaker 1: They spied on one of those Fox News reporters at
- 10:06Speaker 1: the time, a guy I interviewed a couple of times
- 10:08Speaker 1: named James Rosen, because he happened to, some classified intel
- 10:12Speaker 1: from a source fell into his lap and he reported
- 10:14Speaker 1: on it. This was about a North Korean issue. So
- 10:18Speaker 1: they spied on him. They wiretapped his house, his parents' phones, everything.
- 10:23Speaker 1: That happened in the Obama administration against a reporter that
- 10:26Speaker 1: happened to work for Fox News. Look it up on
- 10:28Speaker 1: your own. Don't doubt me. Whatever you want to do.
- 10:30Speaker 1: James Rosen, look it up, Obama administration. Fox News at
- 10:34Speaker 1: the time. They went after him. They did that. And
- 10:37Speaker 1: yet you got this guy outraged. I can't imagine some
- 10:40Speaker 1: of the things going on right now. Really? Is that right, Barry? Okay. Well, boy,
- 10:46Speaker 1: that's something. But how about this now? How about the outrage?
- 10:49Speaker 1: Let's talk about this outrage, this outrage, and then we'll
- 10:51Speaker 1: get into, we'll try to answer the question, will this
- 10:54Speaker 1: Trump White House ban backfire? Remember when they censored, they
- 10:59Speaker 1: banned Trump from all social media? Remember that? Remember people
- 11:03Speaker 1: like Jimmy Kimmel were just gloating about it when Twitter
- 11:06Speaker 1: at the time before Elon bought it and made it
- 11:08Speaker 1: X and saves free speech. Remember that? Remember they were
- 11:10Speaker 1: gloating about Trump not being on social media anymore? Trump
- 11:12Speaker 1: has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat.
- 11:16Speaker 2: But don't worry, Mr.
- 11:17Speaker 1: President.
- 11:18Speaker 5: There are still plenty of apps.
- 11:19Speaker 3: You do have access to.
- 11:20Speaker 1: You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of
- 11:23Speaker 1: millions of people cheering as you leave. You still have
- 11:26Speaker 1: pet finders. Remember that? Remember the gloating? So where's the
- 11:29Speaker 1: outrage now? First of all, that's what the first thing
- 11:31Speaker 1: is wrong. The first thing. First Amendment violation. No, it's not.
- 11:35Speaker 1: They're still talking about it now freely, just not from
- 11:38Speaker 1: a certain location in the White House. It's not a
- 11:41Speaker 1: First Amendment violation at all. And that guy himself has
- 11:44Speaker 1: been censored. So what's the deal with that? And then
- 11:48Speaker 1: there's also this.
- 11:49Speaker 2: President Biden was photographed holding a cheat sheet during his
- 11:53Speaker 2: press conference yesterday. Look, it has a photo of Los
- 11:57Speaker 2: Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian, along with a pronunciation of
- 12:01Speaker 2: her name.
- 12:02Speaker 1: But there's more.
- 12:03Speaker 2: The card also includes her question. You can also see
- 12:07Speaker 2: someone's handwriting telling the president that she will ask the
- 12:11Speaker 2: first question.
- 12:13Speaker 1: I wanted to throw some Biden information in there, too,
- 12:15Speaker 1: because he's not guilty of this. And I go back
- 12:17Speaker 1: again to Obama. I can't imagine some of the things
- 12:19Speaker 1: going on right now. Really? Well, we just had a
- 12:21Speaker 1: previous president in Joe Biden. That administration was writing the
- 12:25Speaker 1: questions for that press corps, as you just saw in
- 12:27Speaker 1: that inside edition expose. Please with the outrage. That's absolute nonsense.
- 12:33Speaker 1: But it goes back to our relevant question that he
- 12:35Speaker 1: opened up with. And I actually haven't changed my mind.
- 12:37Speaker 1: I think I've convinced myself even more. Will, despite all this,
- 12:42Speaker 1: despite the fake news, and despite the propaganda, and all
- 12:45Speaker 1: of this stuff that goes on, and the fact that
- 12:47Speaker 1: we don't have a free press, will President Trump's White
- 12:50Speaker 1: House press ban backfire? I think it actually will. And again,
- 12:55Speaker 1: this may change tomorrow or tonight.
- 12:56Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 12:57Speaker 1: I think it's a bad move. Here's why I think that.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Because as you expose them, I've said for a long time,
- 13:04Speaker 1: I think the greatest accomplishment of anything that President Trump
- 13:07Speaker 1: is going to leave us is exposing most of the
- 13:10Speaker 1: fake news. Showing most people that we do not have
- 13:15Speaker 1: a free press. More people than ever are asking the
- 13:17Speaker 1: right questions. This is a generation of people that aren't
- 13:20Speaker 1: just blindly picking up a newspaper copy of the New
- 13:24Speaker 1: York Times and believing word for word everything they say.
- 13:27Speaker 1: And that's a good thing, getting away from that. That's
- 13:29Speaker 1: a good thing if you had people asking questions. That's
- 13:31Speaker 1: the whole point of everything we do. Everything. He's largely
- 13:35Speaker 1: responsible for that. Was he nasty about it? Of course
- 13:37Speaker 1: he was. Is this an extreme measure going on Truth
- 13:41Speaker 1: Social and instituting a White House press spin? Of course
- 13:45Speaker 1: it is. But that's what you do to get attention,
- 13:47Speaker 1: and that's what you do to get eyeballs on the
- 13:50Speaker 1: issue and to get people to listen. That's what's happening here. So,
- 13:54Speaker 1: so far he's been able to do that by... having
- 13:58Speaker 1: them ask those questions, by exposing them, by having their
- 14:01Speaker 1: access to him right away, by him pushing back on
- 14:05Speaker 1: the fake news, by him pushing back on the propaganda,
- 14:07Speaker 1: and he's done great at that. With this, you're giving
- 14:11Speaker 1: them and you're handing them a win. You're giving them
- 14:14Speaker 1: a win and now they can go back and they
- 14:16Speaker 1: can say, some MSNBC or CNN reporter can say, just
- 14:21Speaker 1: as we said, he's a tyrant who wants to control
- 14:23Speaker 1: all the information. Now they can say that they're claiming victory.
- 14:27Speaker 1: instead of face-to-face having to deal with President Trump or
- 14:30Speaker 1: the administration himself and them shutting them down. I think
- 14:36Speaker 1: it's a bad move. I think you should give them
- 14:39Speaker 1: more access to President Trump because he does a great job,
- 14:42Speaker 1: and almost everybody in the administration does a great job,
- 14:45Speaker 1: of shutting down the fake news face-to-face. And it's been
- 14:48Speaker 1: really effective. And it's been really important in getting people
- 14:51Speaker 1: to understand exactly what fake news is. Now, by banning them, uh...
- 14:57Speaker 1: Now you're giving them a win. This may not even
- 15:00Speaker 1: last too long. Who the hell knows? I mean, the next,
- 15:01Speaker 1: God forbid, the next world event happens that puts us
- 15:03Speaker 1: in trouble or something. You're going to have to have
- 15:05Speaker 1: them in close anyway. So this thing may go away
- 15:07Speaker 1: soon anyway. But right now, I think it's a bad move.
- 15:11Speaker 1: I think you should have kept on doing exactly what
- 15:13Speaker 1: you do. Just go back to before she recently left
- 15:17Speaker 1: the post. Look, go back to Caroline Leavitt, how she
- 15:20Speaker 1: would hammer these propagandists, hammer them and get the right
- 15:24Speaker 1: information out there. Now, without that face-to-face confrontation, they can
- 15:28Speaker 1: run willy-nilly and say whatever they want and say, well,
- 15:32Speaker 1: we tried to ask the president, but he won't allow
- 15:34Speaker 1: us to ask any questions. That looks bad to people
- 15:36Speaker 1: who aren't in the know. He was a lot more effective,
- 15:38Speaker 1: and they were a lot more effective when they could
- 15:40Speaker 1: face the fake news face-to-face. I don't know. I don't
- 15:44Speaker 1: feel sorry for them because they are the ones that
- 15:46Speaker 1: have created all these problems for us. All of them have,
- 15:48Speaker 1: including some at Fox News. All of them. We don't
- 15:51Speaker 1: have a free White House press corps. We don't have
- 15:53Speaker 1: a free press. We don't. They have not done their jobs.
- 15:55Speaker 1: They're propagandists. But he was able to expose that by
- 15:58Speaker 1: dealing with them one-on-one. Nobody did a better job on that.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Now you're giving them an easy win because now they
- 16:04Speaker 1: can whine about it and call him a tyrant. So
- 16:07Speaker 1: that's my take right now, which may change in about
- 16:09Speaker 1: 10 minutes. I don't know.
- 16:11Speaker 5: We'll see.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Ask yourself your own question about that. Comments are always welcome.
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- 16:30Speaker 1: was an awesome weekend. Make it a wicked awesome Monday.
- 16:32Speaker 1: And think about it. Good or bad on the White
- 16:34Speaker 1: House press ban? I don't know. I still think bad.
- 16:39Speaker 1: I'll talk to you tomorrow.