Liberal Angst Alert: White House to Take Over Briefing Room Seating Chart

For years, much of the nation’s biased major media have done battle for the Democrats and the progressive cause. We’ve watched them censor the Hunter laptop story, win Pulitzer prizes for covering the Russia-Russia scandal (which turned out to be bogus), print misinformation piece after misinformation piece about COVID and the effectiveness of the vaccines, and countless other examples.

One of the ways they’ve done this is through the White House Correspondents’ Association, which has worked to keep the legacy media atop the DC journalism food chain. Donald Trump is looking to change that, and just as he's created shockwaves throughout the Swamp in his second term, he’s also making a big move to better reflect the nation’s new media landscape.

You can almost hear the liberal journalists’ crying already:

The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks, taking over a function long managed by the reporters themselves through the White House Correspondents' Association.
Why it matters: It's the latest — but likely not the last — effort by the White House to take a heavier hand in shaping who covers President Trump. In public and private, White House officials make it clear they are determined to upend decades-old press corps traditions.

🚨🚨🚨NEW in @axios AM:@WhiteHouse to impose new Briefing Room seating chart, which for decades was managed by @whca, in coming weeks

WH official tells me it's a "fundamental restructuring of the briefing room, based on metrics more reflective of how media is consumed today"👇 pic.twitter.com/OsxNUnffzv
— Mike Allen (@mikeallen) March 30, 2025

Sean Spicer, press secretary during Trump’s first term, wrote on X Sunday: “Fantastic way to kick off the week.” Ari Fleischer, who held the same job under former President George W. Bush, chimed in:

The decision re who gets to sit in taxpayer provided seats in a government building should not be made by journalists. It should be made by the press sec, as was standard until 2006.

Why is the seating arrangement so important? Because it gives you a huge advantage:

The backstory: Prominent seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room are coveted because it's easier to catch the press secretary's eye to ask tough and probing questions. Those correspondents' interactions are also more likely to be showcased on TV.
In February, the White House began designating the pool of reporters who accompany Trump in tight spaces like the Oval Office and Air Force One — another function the WHCA had controlled for generations. WHCA said in response: "In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps."

'Just Perfect': WHCA President Just Proves White House's Point With Announcement About His Next Move

In February, the White House had already freaked out members of the legacy media by deciding they would choose which reporters get the coveted “press pool” slots, which go to journalists who travel with the president or cover him in situations where there are space limitations. The move took away that power from the WHCA, as we reported.

Trump is rewriting the norms in so many ways, and his shaking up of the DC journalistic cesspool is good for Americans. We don’t need the corporate press deciding who gets the best access to the president—they’ve proven themselves over and over again to be hopelessly biased and unreliable.

Expect much shrieking forthcoming from outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.

Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.

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