Two weeks ago, President Trump marked 200 days in office in his second term. There has been a noteworthy difference in how the media have treated his capabilities the second time around, compared to how his first term was covered. Whereas the media had much of the power to make Trump look bad in his first term, Trump has turned the tables and racked up arguably one success after another, from the economy to the Alaska Summit, without the mainstream media so much as making a dent in Trump’s approval rating. Sean Spicer was President Trump’s first press secretary and knows how to handle the White House Press Room pecking order from experience; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to describe the changes in perception he has noticed since he ran the room.
Spicer told host Larry Mendte that access for new voices is the biggest difference since he left the first Trump administration in 2017: “There are a whole new group of folks, and they’re making the other folks less relevant, and that’s the real key to this. [CNN] and the New York Times don’t have the institutional power and the audience and the subscribers that they used to, and that’s where I think there’s a big difference between Trump One and Trump Two. They sort of, I wouldn’t say drowned out the voices, but… the point is that we can get our voices out now and give people a lace to go that’s not just The New York Times and The Washington Post and Politico.”
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