Beat the Press: How Team Trump Is Trying to Keep the Media in Check

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It may seem like an odd time to party in Washington, but journalists and politicos will gather again this weekend at the White House Correspondents Dinner (and slew of late-night soirees and boozy brunches.) Host and Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, decode this long-running media ritual, which plays out this year as Donald Trump shatters precedents with the press and puts a chill on speech.

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0:00.0	Okay, Claire and Michael, the time has come to select a headline for today's episode.
0:05.6	Michael was clacking harder than I was.
0:07.6	I was clacking, but it was the same thing.
0:11.1	Beat the press, how Team Trump is trying to keep the media in check.
0:15.8	That's a good one.
0:17.1	That's really good.
0:18.6	Okay, I got two.
0:20.2	One is way too kind.
0:22.1	Why Donald Trump is giving the fourth estate the third degree.
0:26.1	We could do inside.
0:27.7	Why?
0:28.1	How?
0:28.7	And the other one is the fourth estate in a category five hurricane.
0:32.1	Trump's assault on a free press.
0:33.9	I went with the number play today.
0:35.5	I see it.
0:36.5	I see it.
0:37.2	I'm trying to figure out if there's a
0:38.4	fourth estate middle finger. But you like, it likes the number. I think beat the press is a clear
0:44.9	winner here. Apologies to you, Claire, and to me. It wins me over too. Okay. We're going to go with
0:52.3	beat the press.
0:58.1	Yeah. me over too. Okay, we're going to go with Beat the Press. Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair, a podcast about power and the people who love it.
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