Trump And The Threat To The Media

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists, particularly those who do or say things he doesn’t like. His latest fight is with the Associated Press, which refuses to go along with the president’s decision to unilaterally rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. But he’s also going after CBS’s “60 Minutes” for how it edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Des Moines Register over a late-election poll it published showing Trump losing Iowa in November (he didn’t). Katherine Jacobsen, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ program coordinator in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, talks about the risks to press freedom under the Trump administration. Also in headlines: Trump officials continued to move closer to Russia during peace talks in Saudi Arabia over ending its invasion of Ukraine, the White House says billionaire Elon Musk is not running the Department of Government Efficiency, and another top federal prosecutor in D.C. resigned.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, February 19th.
0:04.1	I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey, the show that is proud of its 100% success rate
0:08.8	in never firing the people who control our nuclear weapons and the people trying to stop
0:13.1	bird flu, and thus never having to go rehire them.
0:32.9	Thank you. On today's show, White House officials deny Elon Musk's involvement in the Department of Government Efficiency.
0:39.0	No, he's not the leader. He's an advisor now. And President Donald Trump signs another batch of executive orders. But let's start with journalism and more importantly, attacks on journalism
0:43.7	and journalists from the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists,
0:50.1	particularly journalists who do things he doesn't like or say things he doesn't approve of.
0:55.1	Take the Associated Press. When Trump unilaterally decided that he was renaming the Gulf of Mexico,
1:00.4	the Gulf of America, the Associated Press didn't fall in line because, as the AP pointed out,
1:06.1	the Gulf has held that name for more than 400 years and other countries and international bodies
1:10.3	don't recognize the Gulf of America name, which matters because the AP is an international news
1:15.3	outlet. And Trump, as he tends to do, got mad. The administration barred the AP from Air Force
1:21.1	Juan and the White House itself. Here's Trump explaining his reasoning on Tuesday at a press
1:26.8	conference at Mar-a-Lago.
1:28.4	The Associated Press just refuses to go with what the law is and what is taken place.
1:34.7	It's called the Gulf of America now. It's not called the Gulf of Mexico any longer.
1:40.2	I have the right to do it, just like we have the right to do Mount McKinley, and nobody's even
1:43.8	challenging that.
1:45.2	Okay, it's not a law.
1:47.0	It's an executive order.
1:48.6	And the reason the AP is okay with Trump renaming the mountain formerly known as Donali is
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