Steve Thomma, the veteran White House reporter and current executive director of the White House Correspondents’ Association, pointed out on Sunday evening that President Barack Obama’s White House actually started the trend of creating “real news” videos to go around the traditional media’s filters to get its message out more directly to voters President Donald Trump’s critics erupted on Sunday after Kayleigh McEnany hosted a “real news” segment that Trump’s reelection campaign tweeted out. McEnany announced last week that she was leaving CNN, where she was one of two pro-Trump voices along with Jeffrey Lord, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) revealed on Monday that she would come on board as an official spokesperson. The Trump campaign’s “real news” video did not try to trick voters into thinking it was an “objective” PBS-type newscast. It had Trump’s website address and the Trump/Pence campaign logo in the background, making it obvious, as even CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski pointed out, that it was not really that different from the types of videos most campaigns produce in the digital age. McEnany just pointed out some positive news from last week for Trump and the video was funded with campaign funds. Obama’s videos, in contrast,