Van Jones, an ex-adviser to former President Barack Obama and current CNN political commentator, said on Friday that President-elect Donald Trump is "smarter" than all his critics.
In a video posted to political commentator Chris Cillizza's YouTube channel on Friday, he asked Jones, "How the hell did Donald Trump figure out the mainstream media is the fringe and the fringe is now the mainstream?"
Trump's election win against Vice President Kamala Harris is credited in part to the rise of right-wing non-traditional media. "The booming right-wing influencer ecosystem helped reelect Donald Trump," The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber wrote in an article published two days after the election titled, "Why Democrats Are Losing the Culture War."
The president-elect's nearly three-hour-long interview with podcaster Joe Rogan in late October comes to mind when thinking about his use of alternative media channels.
