Fox’s Will Cain Says Podcasters Like Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly ‘Earned’ Seats In White House Briefing Room as Trump Jr. Promises Shakeup

Fox News’ Will Cain said podcasters like Joe Rogan have “earned” seats in the White House press briefing room following Donald Trump Jr. suggesting a major shakeup under his father, President-elect Donald Trump.

Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain joined Fox & Friends on Wednesday to react to Trump Jr.’s comments. The president’s son said on his Triggered podcast that he’s discussed with his father the possibility of opening up the press briefing room to podcasters like Rogan and others.

“We had the conversation about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists,” he said. “If The New York Times has lied, they’ve been averse to everything, they’re functioning as the marketing arm to the Democrat party, why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?” Trump Jr. said.

Cain was all for the idea and argued podcasters like Rogan and Kelly could “build out” their operations. Both host podcasts and Rogan interviewed Trump for three-plus hours shortly before the election. Plans for a similar interview with Vice President Kamala Harris did not pan out.

Cain said:

“Pretty exciting, there might be a White House press briefing seat for the The Will Cain Show — The truth is though, most of us from The Will Cain Show to Joe Rogan to Megan Kelly, and so forth, we don’t have large, built-out news departments, reporters and journalists set to sit in that room and I can’t imagine seeing Megyn and Joe moving to DC and ready to ask questions directly, but they’ve earned it. That’s the point that I think is being alluded to here or we’re getting to. As long as they want to invest and build out, they have earned it.”

Cain then knocked Axios CEO Jim VandeHei for going off this week on X owner Elon Musk’s hits on the media.

“Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day or X today saying like, ‘We are the media. You are the media.’ My message to Elon Musk is: Bullshit! You’re not the media, you having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle ,and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter anymore than me looking at your head, and seeing that you have a brain and telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon, right?” the Axios co-founder said.

Cain argued people are more interested in hearing from more independent media in that press room than the traditional mainstream outlets.

“That whole group, the one that has the 49 seats now, they have lost everything, every bit of trust through Russigate to Donald Trump to Covid and every other story. What credibility do you have that you think entitles you to that seat? And I think most of us at this point don’t care,” he said. “I don’t care what ABC or CBS or NBC have to say, but I would be interested to hear what a question from Joe Rogan would be.”

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