Trump White House Snubs Reporters Over Pronouns

Reporters who list their preferred pronouns in their email signatures are now learning they won’t be getting responses from President Trump’s press office — a deliberate move that’s sparking outrage from left-wing journalists and outlets like The New York Times.
According to Times reporter Michael Grynbaum, the press office under Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has refused to answer media inquiries on at least three recent occasions solely because the sender displayed pronouns in their bio. That’s not a fluke — it’s policy.
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt told one Times reporter who had emailed about a climate research facility. She added in another exchange, “Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story.”
Katie Miller, a senior adviser with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), echoed that position when she refused to respond to a reporter who contacted her about DOGE records.
“This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature,” Miller explained. “It shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts.”
The Times ran the story as an exposé on what it called a “concerning and baffling choice,” quoting a company spokesperson who scolded the White House for supposedly avoiding transparency. But the press office isn’t budging.
Steven Cheung, the White House Communications Director, hit back hard in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, “If The New York Times spent the same amount of time actually reporting the truth as they do being obsessed with pronouns, maybe they would be a half-decent publication.”
The dust-up has liberal media figures clutching their pearls. Crooked Media’s Matt Berg admitted he ran a test by adding pronouns to his email signature just to bait a response — and sure enough, his query was ignored like the others.
“I find it baffling that they care more about pronouns than giving journalists accurate information,” Berg whined.
But the policy is hardly surprising. Trump has made clear throughout his second term that the federal government would return to reality-based language. His administration banned biological men from women’s sports, removed gender ideology from official documents, and restored the ban on transgender troops in the military. This press office is simply applying the same standard to the people tasked with covering those policies.
What the media calls “baffling,” the White House calls common sense.
“There’s a difference between disagreeing on policy and denying biology,” one senior Trump official told Fox. “If a reporter can’t bring themselves to recognize reality in a basic email signature, how can they be trusted to honestly report the facts?”
Leavitt, for her part, is standing firm.
“Reporters are free to do what they want,” she told Fox News. “We’re free not to take them seriously when they choose activist signaling over objective journalism.”
With the Trump White House showing zero signs of backing down, expect the outrage from the pronoun police to keep growing — and the inboxes at 1600 Pennsylvania to stay blissfully uncluttered.