{"id":5377,"date":"2026-07-13T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:53:35","slug":"nicolle-wallace-admits-she-refused-to-air-trump-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=5377","title":{"rendered":"Nicolle Wallace Admits She \u2018Refused\u2019 to Air Trump Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&amp;apos;Crock of sh**&amp;apos;: Acosta CALLS OUT this Trump, MAGA double standard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LumgRKAqli8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MS NOW anchor <strong>Nicolle Wallace\u00a0<\/strong>said she had to stop airing President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> press briefings on her show during his first term because they \u201churt\u201d her to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace told ex-CNN star and fellow MAGA critic <strong>Jim Acosta<\/strong> she just couldn\u2019t bear to listen to the press briefings when <strong>Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/strong> was the White House press secretary during the Monday episode of her <em>Best People<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stopped carrying Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefings, just refused to carry them,\u201d Wallace said.\u201dBecause having worked there, it like actually hurt me to watch her lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace continued, saying \u201cevery press secretary and every White House\u201d tries to get the best possible coverage and put their spin on stories. But she said the \u201clies\u201d from the Trump Administration on illegal immigration were too much for her.<\/p>\n<p>She also said a moment earlier that she was sickened by Trump skewering Acosta during his time as a CNN White House reporter, as well as the president branding the mainstream press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/17\/business\/trump-calls-the-news-media-the-enemy-of-the-people.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wallace\u2019s MS NOW show debuted in May 2017, two months before Huckabee Sanders became Trump\u2019s press secretary. She served in that role until July 2019. And as Wallace alluded to in her comments above, she was the communications director during <strong>George W. Bush\u2019s<\/strong> second term.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came a moment after Acosta said Trump continues to \u201cbully\u201d the media, just like his first four years in the White House. Acosta pointed to the Associated Press getting <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ap-news-ban-air-force-one-b90b8b842d63aef9960ccffb4a657dc2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">booted<\/a> from Air Force One and the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/karoline-leavitt-drops-bombshell-on-whca-by-announcing-white-house-is-taking-control-of-press-pool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking over assignments<\/a> for the press pool as two moves that really irked him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s totally nuts,\u201d Acosta said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know why the networks and the major newspapers ever tolerated that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to complain a moment later that Trump\u2019s crackdown on illegal immigration is wrecking the USA&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to survive this and overcome this, or else our kids and our grandkids are doomed,\u201d Acosta said. \u201cThey cannot live in a country where fascist white nationalist authoritarianism takes over. It will lead to mass suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch above.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JasonJournoDC\">Jason Cohen<\/a> contributed to this story.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace\u00a0said she had to stop airing President Donald Trump\u2019s press briefings on her show during his first term because they \u201churt\u201d her to watch. 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