The lack of presidential endorsements from major newspapers is a business decision made to account for the loss of public trust in legacy media.

“they're all turning to those nasty podcasts and they're all turning to daily wire concurrently The Washington Post ran a hitpiece trying to take our shows off the air with Ben's picture as the head of it so this this was to me evidence not of some ideological Awakening or a Reckoning”

Legacy media outlets like CNN have lost the trust of their audience by lying and using gimmicks instead of performing real journalism.

“Those legacy media companies like CNN lost all the trust of their audience. I think the problem ultimately is that like we've talked about here, it's all just a gimmick.”