Trump White House Debuts ‘Podcast Row’ as New Media Push Expands

The Trump Administration on Thursday unveiled its new “Podcast Row,” a dedicated section for podcasters to stream and record directly from the White House.

Podcast Row’s debut comes as President Donald Trump has emphasized giving access to “new media” outlets, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt opening the White House press briefing room to several podcasters, content creators and non-mainstream news organizations in the last two months.

“Hey everybody, today is Podcast Row here at the White House and our team has gathered a room full of podcasters with cabinet officials, White House officials who are talking to them about the president and his agenda,” Leavitt said in a video on X. “And I bet you, the people in that room have much more viewers than CNN and the legacy media, just saying. We’re proud to welcome them to the White House.”

Some of the attendees on Thursday included David Freiheit, a Canadian political commentator who goes by “Viva Frei” on YouTube, where he has 638,000 subscribers, and Breanna Morello, an independent journalist who previously produced for Fox Corp. and Newsmax.

Natalie Winters, the co-host of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” on Rumble and one of the new media members who has been covering the White House since Trump returned in January, was also in attendance.

Additionally, NewsNation reporter Libby Dean was on hand to cover the event, which included a number of Trump officials. The Podcast Row guests were able to speak with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., EPA administrator Lee Zeldin and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.

The Trump Administration’s embrace of “new media” has also come as it has wrestled with legacy media outlets like the Associated Press. The AP has been banned from certain parts of the White House, including the Oval Office, over its refusal to use the term “Gulf of America,” after President Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico on government documents.

Leavitt has argued that Trump gets to decide who and which outlets get to ask the president questions, while AP executive editor Julie Pace has said the outlet’s free speech rights have been violated by its restricted access. Later on Thursday, a federal judge will rule on whether the Trump Administration’s ban will be upheld.

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