White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked by a new member of the media how best to cover the White House

Kambree Nelson and Karoline Leavitt pose in the press briefing room (Image: kamvtv/Instagram)

During a press briefing on Monday, Karoline Leavitt was asked by a member of the new media covering the White House about how to report on Donald Trump.

Kambree Nelson, an ambassador with the American First Policy Institute, is now welcomed in the White House after the Trump administration began allowing non-traditional media outlets into the briefing room. She started her question by criticizing mainstream media for their reporting.

She stated: “I’ve noticed this is kind of like a repeat of 2016; the legacy media has gone back to not reporting anything on President Trump. In the beginning, we had them reporting everything that he was doing. Now, they’re kind of going back, again, to not reporting everything that he is actually doing.”

Nelson then proceeded to ask Leavitt about the best approach to cover the White House, reports the Mirror US.

“I’m kind of the nerd when it comes to reporting. I’m not the headline news girl. I’m the nuts-and-bolts, I’m the policy-type nerd; so what direction do you advise me to go into?

“Like the White House files that y’all send out every single day? Because that’s what people are used to when they wanna ask me questions, they wanna know the nuts and bolts of everything.”

In response, Leavitt expressed her wish for more people in the legacy media like Nelson, who don’t write “sensationalist headlines.”

Kambree Nelson is an ambassador for the America First Policy Institute(Image: kamvtv/Instagram)

The press secretary remarked: “The president is doing so many phenomenal things every day that will never be mentioned on cable news at night, signing executive orders… We are do our absolute best to message that, which is, again, why we’re welcoming independent voices like yours with followings on social media. Because that’s the best way to get those truths and those facts out there.”

On X, some suggested Nelson’s question showed her bias, allowing the White House to dictate its own coverage.

One user commented: “Kambree Nelson actually asked @PressSec what govt propaganda she should parrot. What a f—ing joke…”

Another voiced: “Legitimate journalists should just stop going. What’s the point?”

However, not all shared this view. Another user argued that it’s time for new sources of news to take the lead.

Karoline Leavitt wished all reporters were like Kambree(Image: Getty Images)

“The NEW media is NOT the radical left democrat propaganda press; ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Wash Post,” they stated.

The White House has been under fire for its influence over journalists in the briefing room. The White House Correspondents’ Association has previously accused the Trump administration of attempting to “exert pressure on journalists over coverage they disagree with,” as per a CNN report.

The Associated Press has been barred from reporting inside the Oval Office after it declined to rename the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage. In response, the AP took legal action against the White House, resulting in a federal court instructing the administration not to penalise the AP for its naming of the body of water.