Trump Press Sec Goes Full MAGA Cult in Crazed, Angry Tirades at Media

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Republicans are blaming Democratic rhetoric for inciting the alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. To that end, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed tirades at journalists that were soaked in MAGA derangement. One cultishly lionized Trump as a “fearless president” for standing up to “bullets” while absurdly accusing the media and Democrats of “11 years” of “hateful” and “violent” speech about Trump. The other tore into Democrats and the media for daring to point out that Trump poses an “existential threat to democracy,” as if that’s not rooted in his actual conduct, which it is. Yet if anything, the media has not sufficiently conveyed the threat Trump poses. We talked about this disconnect with Matt Gertz of Media Matters, who’s been writing well about the absurdity of inviting Trump to the press dinner. We discuss the danger Trump poses for press freedom, why the media struggles to report on the threat despite being a target, why time is running out to get this right, and how Democrats should proceed now. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.5	After a heavily armed man tried to breach security at the White House Correspondence Dinner,
1:28.7	apparently to kill Donald Trump or others in his orbit,
1:34.6	Trump and Republicans immediately started blaming Democratic rhetoric about Trump for the incident.
1:40.9	Unsurprisingly, Caroline Levitt was more disgusting on this score than just about anyone else.
1:46.1	Some media figures did fall for some of this, but really, this moment should drive home some fundamental truths for the media. Each side does use incendiary rhetoric about
1:52.3	the other, but only one of the two parties is correct in describing the other as extreme and
1:58.2	profoundly dangerous. Only one of the two parties is fundamentally hostile
2:02.8	to liberal democracy and fundamentally hostile to the mission of the free press itself.
2:09.1	Democrats should make this playing. We're talking about all this with Matt Gertz, senior fellow
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