His name is Brian Glenn, and if you didn’t immediately recognize that name a couple of months ago, then consider yourself more grounded than you may have thought. Lately, it seems he’s becoming a lot more visible and prominent, if for no other reason than mainstream media can’t stop introducing us to him.
Glenn’s real job these days is Chief White House Correspondent with an entity known as Real America’s Voice, or RAV TV, which per its website purports to have carriage on DISH and FAST channel carriage on VMPVDs like Samsung TV Plus, Roku and Pluto TV. I’m not one of his viewers, and per objective third-party statistics I’m apparently in substantial company. Its You Tube channel data via vid IQ which was updated Monday claims to have 161,000 subscribers and an aggregate video view count of roughly 13.5 million since it began being measured nearly six years ago. Glenn joined the–ahem–network last May just after POLITICO’s Adam Wren dropped a lengthy profile that referenced him as “the man MAGA America wakes up to”. Notably, one fairly notorious and outspoken member of said tribe in particular. Per a publication with more than a little vested interest in that scuttlebutt, the AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, in a piece authored last week by its very own Miguel Legoas:
Glenn is dating U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia. In an interview with Politico, he said they started seeing each other in early 2023.
“He’s from the industry, so he is a great resource. He’s explained a lot, like how things work and yeah, it’s great,” Greene told Semafor in April 2023. “So maybe I’m falling in love with the press.”
Or maybe she’s hitching her wagon to a guy who’s on a hot streak of late. Glenn’s been rather prominently featured in recent White House press conferences, drawing global attention which THE TELEGRAPH’s Connor Stringer took note of as March began:
It was a low blow designed to humiliate the president of Ukraine in front of a global television audience and provide a viral clip for social media.
To the delight of a laughing crowd inside the Oval Office, Brian Glenn, a leading member of a new cadre of Maga-enthusiast reporters reshaping White House coverage, ridiculed Volodymyr Zelensky over his attire.
“Why don’t you wear a suit? You’re at the highest level in this country’s office, and you refuse to wear a suit. Do you own a suit?” sneered Mr Glenn.
And just yesterday, as reported by THE INDEPENDENT’s Justin Baragona, Glenn once again demonstrated his ability to provide the reality show ringmaster-in-chief set-up lines and fawning not seen since the days of a less sober version of Ed McMahon on THE TONIGHT SHOW:
Glenn used the White House sitdown between President Donald Trump and Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin to press Ireland’s leader about Rosie O’Donnell moving to the Emerald Isle. During Martin’s visit with Trump, Glenn took the opportunity to personally congratulate the president for his economic success, despite the fact that the stock market has plummeted in recent days over recession fears due to Trump’s escalating trade war and chaos implemented by the DOGE cuts.
At the same time, the right-wing reporter also referenced his much-derided question to Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this month, when he mocked the Ukrainian president for not wearing a suit during the volatile Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
“Welcome to the United States, you look great. Nice suit,” Glenn said as Trump nodded in approval. “Trump ran on MAGA — Make America Great Again. If you could run on MIGA — Make Ireland Great Again — what would your number one issue be for people in Ireland right now to make your country stronger? And I’ve got a two-part question to that as well.”
After Martin said his “number one priority” would be housing due to rising home prices, the RAV correspondent then wondered what the Irish prime minister thought about O’Donnell, a former host of The View who has been locked in a decades-long feud with Trump.
“Ireland is known for a very happy, fun-loving people,” Glenn exclaimed. “Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland?! I think she is going to lower your happiness levels!”
As Martin attempted to merely shrug off the absurd question, Trump chimed in and declared “that’s true” while thanking Glenn for asking the Irish leader about the comedian. “Thank you,” Trump bellowed. “I like that question!”
Trump went on to ask Martin if he knew who O’Donnell was, prompting the prime minister to awkwardly try to pivot before the president declared: “You’re better off not knowing!”
And surprise, surprise, there’s been an echo effect for Glenn’s fledgling site. PLAYBOOK’s more updated daily lens of RAV TV reported a record 851,724 views for yesterday, a nearly seven-fold bump from the previous 90-day high of 124,127–unsurprisingly set on January 20th.
Look, they’re far from the first coupling of journalist and politician we’ve seen. In 2007 the LOS ANGELES TIMES’ James Rainey published a lengthy piece about the phenomenon, citing at least four somewhat significant alliances they knew of,. And these days at least some portion of America still wakes up to Joe and Mika.
Far be it for me to question true love in bloom, especially given the regrettable choices Marge has made in recent years. This is who she nearly left her husband for, as THE DAILY MAIL’s Martin Gould and Ruth Styles reported in February 2021:
The former lover of QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out publicly online, embracing his polyamorous lifestyle. Craig Ivey, 42, has even launched his own page on OnlyFans, a subscription site popular with porn stars, where he has posted nude pictures of himself. ‘I guess naked nature photo shoots are part of my life now,’ he wrote on the website.
The story was teased with the following clickbait sub-heads:
‘It saddens me to see the person she has become.’ Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘tantric sex guru’ ex-lover says he’s proud to be ‘polyamorous’ and launches OnlyFans page – as he finally addresses his affair with the QAnon congresswoman.
Yes, I suppose after waking up to something like that, Glenn’s a relative tall drink of water. And compared to the experience of proverbially burying his nose deep up Fat Orange Jesus’ gas-filled ass, literally burying some part of himself in Greene’s is likely a somewhat more enjoyable experience. Especially if she picked up a few of Ivey’s tricks along the way.
And per HUFF POST’s S.V. Date, Glenn’s apparently not a poor guy, either:
The White House’s favored new reporter, the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit, was the primary voice at a “news” outlet that has taken $192,000 from President Donald Trump’s political committees, nearly half of which came while he was program director there.
Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as “production” costs, and then pointed to the row of television cameras set up in the back of the White House briefing room. “Who pays for them?” he asked, suggesting that the major networks like NBC, CNN and Fox also accept money from the entities they cover.
No wonder Glenn appears to be on the Cool Kids list in the middle school lunchroom environment that makes up today’s Oval Office. Maybe he’s not quite as high up as our incel co-president, but, then again, he’s not in a position to sell him a Tesla. Just his soul.
Until next time…