The Adam Mockler Show - This just backfired on him…

Episode Date: September 21, 2026

There's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there. So maybe, Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit. I'm trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News? You're out of here. It's unimaginable. All right, roughly 48 hours ago, Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum and then unconstitutionally banned MS now, CNN, and Politico from even entering the White House and covering his actions whatsoever. This is illegal. This is unconstitutional.

And it has immediately backfired. As today, Trump was doing a ribbon-cutting ceremony. And there was no audio because there was no press pool there to cover what he was doing. Aaron Rupar points out, LMFAO. Trump is holding an event at the White House right now. But there is no audio because the press pool isn't there. Even the Newsmax host pointed out that his ban seems to be backfiring on him a little bit. A lot of the media has banded together and pushed back against this,

but many of the most Trump-aligned outlets are still having his back without realizing the implications. If the president can just unilaterally ban news outlets that he doesn't like on a whim, what stops a Democratic president from doing the exact same thing to Republican outlets? Freedom of speech is important because everybody should get freedom of speech. But I digress. One more important thing that I want to point out that many people have forgotten. is that Donald Trump's top aide Natalie Harp has not gone anywhere.

Throughout all of the crazy headlines in the past month, she has only gotten closer to Donald Trump while she has exited the main news cycle. Natalie Harp and her huge, gigantic bag were seen returning to the White House last night. It's funny because each time she's seen on camera, her bag gets slightly larger and more comical. In this next photo, she's holding two laptops, three cell phones and a massive bag that is like larger than her entire torso.

Look at this massive bag. Each time the bag gets slightly heavier. And this one, she's straight up just sprinting after Donald Trump. This was a photo from their trip to Ireland a while back. But this brings me back around to Natalie Harp's cynical influence that has grown over the past month. Natalie Harp is reportedly the one who prompted Trump's White House ban of CNN, MS Now and Politico. Harp reportedly showed Donald Trump a clip from MS now that got him so irate and so mad

that he then issued the ban on press that is not likely to hold up. Natalie Harp is also responsible for a lot of Donald Trump's most insane, vile, and volatile posts on true social because of course she is the one who clicks post and she is the one who oftentimes brings him these comments and these videos that he's posting. For example, a month or two back, he said, the radical left lunatics might not like this, but I think it's quite nice. Let's see what he posted.

Dude, number one, this is not Trump. Who is this? This is like a chiseled version of Trump. Why does he always make himself artificially swall? He says, I was never a very religious man, but doesn't it seem, with all these satanic, demonic child sacrificing monsters being exposed, that God might be playing his Trump card.

What level of psychosis is this? If you are unironically sharing these memes, you belong in an asylum. I'm sorry, but you do. This is absolutely wild. Trump is like the Antichrist, if anything. He's cheated on every single wife that he's had. He was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy,

and then covered up for Jeffrey Epstein and used his power to hide the files in bullies everybody around him and basically danced on the grave of Rob Reiner. This is Natalie Hart. as well. Look at all of these psychotic posts coming from Trump a week or two back. You see Iran being changed to a Trump-shaped Iran before and after. In this one it says the moon is ours. This one, it says, it's Trump working at McDonald's. United States Space Force. And it's like

the bad guys from Star Wars. What are we doing here? New Mexico being changed to New America. What is this juvenile bullshit? Lake Ontario being scribbled off. It says Lake America. President Washington visits the White House. Okay, so is, are Natalie Harp and Trump just both collectively in psychosis? I guess that's my next question. Now, when Trump did hold an event today, his ban on the press ended up backfiring. I want to point out that we know that Natalie Harp influenced this because CNN themselves reported on it. Friday, which is why now what had prompted this? And what we are told, my colleague Kevin Liptack and I, is that Natalie Harp, who is one of the president's closest days, as you know, she's often in the Oval Office or on Air Force One traveling with the president

and has worked with him for years now, was showing him graphics last week of negative Politico coverage. And the president was infuriated by that graphic that he was shown about Politico's coverage. He also was upset about several TV clips that he had seen of his coverage of his administration and his presidency. And that is why he looped these three outlets together and announced that he was banning them from covering the White House on Friday, from accessing the White House. White House grounds, having access to the Oval Office. And that is really what we are told is the only thing that our sources had heard is what prompted the president to take this action.

It's very clear what they're trying to do here. They're trying to use their soft power. Some would say hard power, but it's basically soft power to scare outlets into only producing favorable coverage of the White House. But in an updated solidarity sign, adding CNN, MS now, Politico, and the Associated Press. Outside the Associated Press booth, it says this.

I stand with all of them. They are all standing in solidarity, which is very great to see. C-SPAN says it relies on the TV network pool for coverage of the president. Without a pool feed, we will not be showing the 145 p.m. White House event, and when it did happen,

when he did do a ribbon-cutting ceremony, there was no audio at all. Yeah, there... Listen to what the Newsmax host says. Okay, so there is no microphone because there's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there. So maybe, Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit. Pick up on some of things Michael was saying. And obviously the ramifications are right here.

Can't hear what the president's saying. Damn. Now, Newsmax is like a far-right station, constantly peddling lies for the president. So the fact that they're pushing back is insane. Now, J.D. Vance decided to weigh in when he was heading to North Carolina for a rally. And it's just bullshit. Take a listen to him. So CNN, MSN, MSN, Politico are now suing over the ban. Do you think it's appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets just because he doesn't like what they report?

Well, I take some issue with the premise. So he's not banning media outlets. What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda. We have to remember those three outlets account about 92% of the stories that they have on the President of the United States, on the administration, are negative. That's not representative of the American people. It's not representative of a public opinion. So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give you special access? Far left propaganda. Just think about this. Politico, CNN, CNN and MS now are some of the most accurate and factual outlets out there that represent tens of millions, dare I say, over 100, 200 million Americans who consume these types of stories.

If their coverage is overwhelmingly negative, maybe that says more about your administration. Maybe the fact that they're not spinning positive stories about the Iran war and the corruption is a good thing. And that's, it's actually an argument for free press. This is not for propaganda reasons. J.D. Vance himself is spewing propaganda. He went on stage in North Carolina and was saying that, you know, Democrats want kindergartners to have surgeries and preferred pronouns. Why would a kindergartner ever need a preferred pronoun

unless somebody else in their life is a sick of? I mean, dude, J.D. Vance has been the biggest purveyor of propaganda right next to Donald Trump for the past few years. Remember on the campaign trail when he said sometimes you just have to make up stories? Here's President Obama responding and I just want to show you all. Pierce Morgan, the host of the Pierce Morgan and Censored Show tried to fact check Obama and then Elon Musk's AI Grock fact-checked him back. So let me just play for you this clip. My imagination could not foresee some of the stuff is going on right now. I believe there was just an announcement that the White House decided. You know what? CNN, MSN, MS now, maybe the New York

Times was included. You just can't come to the White House press briefings anymore because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm trying to think what would have happened if I had said, you know what, Fox News, you're out of here. It's unimaginable. So, but the point I'm making here is, is that if you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35% of the country right now, which thinks that's okay. Well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires. All right, very well said from Obama. Then Pierce Morgan responds and says, Obama did ban five.

in wage almost constant war against press freedom. You should sit this one out, President Barack Obama. And then the community note, the fact check says, in 2009, the Obama administration tried to exclude Fox News from one interview. CNN and other networks objected, so the administration immediately backed down. Fox News was not banned from the White House.

I am so sick of this muddying the waters bullshit. It's like Trump will deny in a lot of law. election, try to overthrow the election. His supporters will call to hang Mike Pence, and Trump will say that there were tens of millions of illegal votes cast. And then Republicans will say, oh, yeah, well, one time Hillary Clinton said that she didn't like the Russian interference, and she thought that Russia interfered unfairly. And it's like, these are not the same thing. They keep trying to draw these false equivalencies, and it's so annoying. Piers Morgan got fact-checked, and I am glad that he did. I also want to point out networks are in solidarity pulling the plug together.

TV networks finally pull plug on Trump after crackpot CNN ban, according to the Daily Beast. America's major TV networks have fired back. It is a backfire Donald Trump's ban on certain media at the White House by refusing to assign a reporting crew to cover him in an extraordinary escalation in the battle between the press and the president. Days after Trump took the astonishing step of banning CNN, Politico, and MS Now, from the White House because he wanted more favorable coverage. NBC, ABC, CBS, and even the Trump-friendly Fox News joined forces to suspend White House pool duties and boycott the tired, old, sad, 80-year-old. The move leaves Trump without a TV crew from any of the major networks as he heads to the United Nations General Assembly.

Waija Zhang expands and says, the primary White House TV pool is made up of five networks. CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and Fox. We take turns covering potis for pooled events and trips and then share footage with the other four, plus other outlets. Today, there is no TV pool, so Trump won't have a crew with him at Unga, which again is the United Nations General Assembly Week. And while this is all happening, what is Donald Trump posting, along with Natalie Harp, probably actually posting the button?

well CNN, MSNBC, and Politico sitting outside the White House in trash bags. Just vile, just gross. We now have more footage of Susie Wiles, Margot Martin, and none other than Natalie Harp, heading aboard Marine One with President Trump to head to New York City, where I'm recording right now. You can see Susie walking out in the front. There is Natalie Harp right there. The entire squad of people who are...

honestly, we're ruining our country, just tearing it down. Between the Iran war that is spiraling out of control, the tariffs, the awful policy, we need to continue to call this out. I appreciate you. Make sure you drop a like. Make sure you subscribe. I'll see you on the next one. Peace out.