John Shahidi, who manages standard podcasters like Theo Von and the Nelk Boys, is the driving pressure behind Donald Trump contemplating including a contemporary twist to the White Home Press Briefing room … and he is telling us how this media landscape-altering concept happened.
John joined us on “TMZ Live” Tuesday and defined why the President-elect appears attentive to his grand concept to credential bro podcasters for the administration’s upcoming every day media briefings.
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Trump hit the podcast circuit laborious in the course of the election and John says that helped him acquire traction with youthful generations of voters, notably males, who devour podcasts versus conventional information shops … just like the ABCs, CNNs and NBCs of the world.
With Trump elected, John says it makes a bunch of sense for Trump to maintain these identical of us concerned … utilizing podcasters to assist ship the information — and Trump’s message — to individuals who do not tune in to mainstream media, and meaning getting them press credentials and sending them to the White Home for briefings.
John says he pitched Trump on the thought a pair weeks in the past at a UFC struggle all of them attended … and his imaginative and prescient entails a separate media room for podcasters and content material creators like Nelk Boys, Theo Von, Adin Ross, Andrew Schulz, Kai Cenat and Patrick Wager-David.
There’s solely 49 seats within the W.H. press briefing room and the White Home Correspondents Affiliation is chargeable for assigning seats … which is why John envisions a special space for the podcast bros.
Theo appears like he is open to the thought, telling TMZ … “We bout that s***.”
Podcaster and humorist Tim Dillon tells TMZ … he’s not been approached and hasn’t heard something about this doable change. He does notice most notable podcasters are additionally standup comedians who tour leaving little time to attend press briefings. He tells us it will be a whole lot of enjoyable although.
After all, this is able to completely shake up the media dynamic at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue … however John tells us he does not give a crap what mainstream media thinks … and he gives one particular approach his guys’ potential Trump protection would stand out.
