The White House on Monday launched a 24/7 video stream dedicated to President Donald Trump called “Trump TV: The Essentials Station” ― a move that came just days after Trump banned three major media outlets from the White House.
Kaelan Dorr, a deputy assistant to the president, tweeted that the broadcast would be “a 24/7 livestream of the Administration’s greatest hits, unfiltered” to be shown on YouTube and within the White House app. But critics are already dismissing Trump TV as an endless feed of straight-up government propaganda.
The White House celebrated the launch with a video featuring clips of shows such as “The Office,” “Seinfeld,” “Friends” and “SpongeBob SquarePants,” all set to a remix of The Buggles’ 1979 hit, “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
The president and the White House often use songs and videos without permission.
Given Trump’s latest brazen attack on the press, critics on social media were in no mood for an “unfiltered” feed of the president presented by the White House, and they hit back on X: