EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, said the establishment media’s “shameless” efforts to attack the Trump administration are based on stories with “no legs.”
Haust first pointed to the negative coverage of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico border where she rode horseback to survey the area.
Despite Noem’s background as a lifelong rancher and farmer from South Dakota, outlets including The Daily Beast called the secretary’s visit to the border a “pony stunt” and another “parade of costumes,” pointing to Noem’s prior ridealong with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for removal operation in New York City where she wore a bulletproof vest.
Haust said the attacks on Noem’s appearance instead of the work she’s overseeing within DHS proves there is nothing else for the media to focus on.
“I was getting pretty frustrated with the women on all of these media outlets just trashing her. ‘Oh, she’s wearing costumes.’ No, you wear an ICE vest when you are on an ICE raid. You also wear a hat when you’re in the heat of the sun and the dust and everything else,” Haust said on Tuesday’s show.
“What it showed though, was that these people in New York and LA and DC are in such a bubble…The things that they were giving her a hard time about were her fashion…If that’s your only complaint, first of all, you don’t know anything about anything and second, she’s doing a terrific job because you can’t complain about the other things that she’s doing,” Haust added.
Further noting that the attacks on Noem ultimately show how “shallow and insignificant” the media is, Haust called out the media’s “shameless” coverage of the Trump administration’s efforts to root out and cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government’s spending.
“It’s shameless…They are dishonest and disingenuous, especially when they were whining about all the government people losing their jobs,” Haust said.
“They’re trying to control the narrative and really trying to push the story when it has no legs. Their stories have no legs. When they’re talking about these USAID workers getting fired and they don’t know where their next paycheck is going to come from. Cry me a river. What happens in the real world if your organization, your company does fraudulent things and has cruddy books and can’t pass an audit? Your company shuts down and you have no job. These people get eight months severance,” Haust added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
