‘It’s Insane!’ Karine Jean-Pierre Rips Media Over ‘Trump Standard’
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) November 6, 2025
Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah that the media has a completely different and “insane” standard for covering President Donald Trump.
Jean-Pierre has been doing interview after interview as she promotes her new book, .
KJP was a guest on Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, during which the host asked for her assessment of how the media has changed since Trump took office in January:
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: When you, you know, you write about the media and you had a deal with the media and it’s always, you, there’s adversarial and there’s working with people.
But right now that you’re out, when you look at corporate media now, has it changed, especially over the last year under Trump? And is it less, is it harder to trust and be trustworthy of the corporate media right now?
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: I think you said it, corporate media, right? I mean, there’s a change in who owns the media, who gets to decide who speaks on behalf of these networks and what it looks like. I mean, it’s pretty scary. It really is.
Look, I’ve always said, and I want to be really clear about that, and it’s in the book, the freedom of the press is critical and it is an important thing…
…And when you take that away, and I’m talking about the current administration, when you take that way and you make it so that the people in the room only report what you want them to report and are not really holding you accountable, that becomes state TV. That becomes state TV.
So I wanna show that there is a respect that is owed and importance for our country, for our countries to survive, to have the freedom of the press.
And I do believe now, to your question about where we are with the media, I think there’s a Trump standard. You know, there’s Trump standard that– he’s just covered differently! And it is insane!
I mean, President Obama said it perfectly recently. He said, can you imagine if I did that? Can you imagine? And so there is a double-standard there.
DEAN OBEIDALLAH: I agree.
Watch above via SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show.
