MAGA's favorite White House reporter

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Meet the White House reporter egging on Trump’s crackdown
Brian Glenn, Trump’s favorite correspondent, is on a crusade to crush free speech

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published September 22, 2025 9:05AM (EDT)


(Salon) He isn’t a government official, but his questions shape government action. A curious and symbolic figure in President Donald Trump’s second administration, Real America’s Voice Chief White House Correspondent Brian Glenn has grown essential to the calculated campaign to redefine what press freedom means in America. Loyalty is rewarded, dissent is punished and the line between reporter and political operative is obliterated.

Under this administration, freedom of the press is a conditional privilege. If you praise the president, you’re welcome. If you challenge him, you should expect retaliation. The White House feeds its preferred outlets — Real America’s Voice, Right Side Broadcasting, Fox News and a handful of right-wing influencers — while starving mainstream reporters of access and painting them as subversive threats. The president has encouraged lawsuits against journalists and media outlets for doing their jobs, and threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks he dislikes. Across the Potomac at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has quietly rewritten guidelines on press access. In a matter of months, we’ve witnessed a quiet conversion of the American press corps into something more akin to state media. Access is granted on the condition of favorability — and no member of the press is more favored than Glenn.

Perhaps best known for berating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit to an explosive Oval Office meeting with Trump on Feb. 28, Glenn masquerades as a White House correspondent while serving as a glorified PR agent for the administration and his partner, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. (Some have called the duo “MAGA America’s favorite couple.”) Many of Glenn’s questions for Trump are softballs. They parrot MAGA talking points and inject policy proposals straight from Greene’s desk into the official press pool. When Glenn asked the president whether he would eliminate capital gains taxes on home sales — one of Greene’s pet policy proposals — it wasn’t an inquiry; it was a plant. The president joked about Glenn being Greene’s boyfriend and moved on. But the question did its job. The congresswoman’s bill made it into the headlines, and it reinforced the unspoken understanding that Glenn is not there to interrogate: He’s there to assist. He is propaganda wrapped in a press pass.

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Glenn has used questions to prompt immediate executive action, such as the removal of the White House Peace Vigil tarp — a round-the-clock protest for global disarmament that stood in Lafayette Square since 1981. Glenn asked Trump during a recent press appearance about a “blue tent” in front of the White House, saying it was “an eyesore.” Trump barked in response, “Take it down. Take it down today. Right now.” The vigil’s tent and signage were removed by National Park Service officers last week. Trump, perhaps in a moment of confusion, later blasted Glenn as fake news. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/09/22/meet-the-white-house-reporter-egging-on-trumps-crackdown/

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1. another GD giant empty head. It's genetic.