President Donald Trump’s administration announced the launch of the “White House Wire” on Wednesday to provide “real news” regarding the “president’s agenda” as the transition continues to implement changes regarding the White House press pool.
In a Wednesday post on X, formerly Twitter, the Trump administration wrote, “The White House has its own wire now. Read what we’re reading.” The White House also included a video of a laptop featuring the “White House Wire” webpage.
According to The Post Millennial, the White House’s new webpage includes reports from Fox News, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, The Hill, Axios, and other news outlets. The Post Millennial reported that the website is designed similar to Drudge Report, which is a news outlet that is critical of the 47th president.
An anonymous White House official told Axios that the “White House Wire” webpage is part of the administration’s strategy to give pro-Trump influencers a platform to share news regarding the president’s policies and actions.
“It’s a place for supporters of the president’s agenda to get the real news all in one place in a shareable and readable format,” the anonymous official told Axios. “The website will be a one-stop shop for news and is part of the Trump administration’s effort to provide transparency and institute policies that put America first.”
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The Hill previously reported that the White House removed a wire-based news outlet position from the White House press pool in April and announced that the press pool would consist of a print journalist designated as the “print pooler,” a print journalist, a radio journalist, a major television network crew, a streaming service or secondary television network crew, four photojournalists, and one independent or “new media” journalist.
According to The Hill, a White House official confirmed that news outlets will be selected for the White House press pool on a rotating basis and that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will have discretion to determine which outlets will comprise the press pool each day.
The Hill reported that while wire-based news outlets will be eligible for the press pool selection rotation, the outlets will not have permanent positions in the press pool. The anonymous White House official told The Hill that outlets will be eligible for selection “irrespective of the substantive viewpoint expressed by an outlet.”
