Trump Backs Down To Mayor Mamdani; Who Is Really Pulling The Strings On Free Press Ban?

Told my colleague Kevin Lipack and I is that Natalie Harp, who is one of the president's closest aides, as you know, she's often in the Oval Office or on Air Force One traveling with the president and has worked with him for years now, was showing him graphics last week of negative Politico coverage, and the president was infuriated by that graphic that he was shown about N- Politico's coverage.

He also was upset about several TV clips that he had seen o- o- of his coverage, of his administration and his presidency, and that is why he looped these three outlets together and announced that he was banning them from covering the White House on Friday from-

So Natalie Harp put together a, uh, show and tell for the president.

These people are being mean to you, and I don't like it.

Okay, well that doesn't surprise me very much, but who is leaking this? Who in the White House is leaking this? Sources told CNN this.

So you have within the MAGA regime people who know that this woman, and the president for that matter, are not Democratic, are authoritarian, are nuts, et cetera.

And in that institution they could all band together and impeach him or, you know, 25th Amendment, but they don't do it.

No, they just leak it to the press.

And so here's what we have going on.

We have the biggest narcissist on the global stage right now who loves his microphone, who loves to be on camera, and now after taking the advice of an unhinged, homeschooled Liberty University graduate, the bunny boiler, this is what, uh, covering the president looks like now.

Play the clip.

[machines whirring] Okay, so there is no microphone because ...

There's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there, so maybe, uh, Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit.

Okay [laughs] yeah, backfiring just a little bit.

I might say that was a Newsmax saying it backfired just a little bit.

So here's my fundamental question to CNN, to Politico, to MS now, to Newsmax, to all of the people who have sanewashed this president because you're fearful of what he would do to you.

You gave an inch and it wasn't enough.

You covered for him, for his dementia, for his lies, and, um, put up false equivalencies, like here's the president's side and then here's the opposition side, when the president's side is unhinged.

You covered Joe Biden and his mental decline and his, uh, physical decline, spot on.

Y'all were ganging up on all of that.

With Donald Trump, you provide cover, and when you give just an inch to an authoritarian, it's not enough.

These media outlets made their bed, and I hate it.

I want to have a free press.

I want to have a, uh, media that is able to cover the president, able to cover the government, shine a light on corruption, shine a light on dementia, shine a light on taxpayer-funded naps and not normalize them.

But they want to, "Oh, we have to, we have to cover it this way or that way," and look what happens.