The California governor described White House reporters as ‘sycophants’
California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized the media for what he described as overly deferential coverage of Donald Trump, characterizing reporters in Oval Office press briefings as “sycophants.”
The Democratic governor — widely seen as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential race — made the remarks during a Sunday interview with progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella.
Cocchiarella pressed Newsom on what he framed as “hesitancy” within the White House press corps to scrutinize certain subjects: namely, the 80-year-old president’s health.
“You see these press conferences in the Oval Office,” the governor replied. “You maybe have one or two reasonable reporters. They ask a question; there’s no chance for a follow-up. And then it’s seven sycophants from news outlets.”
Exactly. Same, if not even worse sometimes. Because it’s a given that Republicans are shit, so they focus their ire on liberals and progressives that haven’t passed their arbitrary purity test.
They also seem to have no concept of things like political capital.
True actually I forgot they’ve normalized it so much to where a headline of “trump caught defrauding the government of billions and giving hundreds of millions to israel” is sort of a “yeah that’s just what he does.”