Charlamagne tha God speaks onstage during Day 2 of Invest Fest 2025 at Georgia World Congress Center on August 23 in Atlanta. Paras Griffin/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God hasn't held back his political opinions. Earlier in the month, his comments on Lara Trump's Fox News program My View about asserting his belief that traditional conservatives in the wake of the infamous Epstein files were preparing to take the Republican Party prompted a response from her father-in-law, President Donald Trump. "He's a Low IQ individual, has no idea what words are coming out of his mouth and knows nothing about me or what I have done," the POTUS wrote on Truth Social. But the popular The Breakfast Club leader has not just outspoken about the president. During a guest appearance on CNN's AC360, he responded to Anderson Cooper's inquiry about whether 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris should also appear on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, like Trump, by calling out the media's failure to question the then-GOP presidential candidate's fascist rhetoric. Related Stories Movies E. Jean Carroll, Journalist and Trump Accuser, Has Cooperated With a Soon-to-Be-Unveiled Documentary (Exclusive) Music Jack White Goes Scorched Earth on Donald Trump: "How Petty and Pathetic and Thin Skinned Could This Administration Get?" Almost a full year later, Charlamagne, who co-hosts The Brilliant Idiots podcast with controversial comedian Andrew Schultz - who coincidentally interviewed Trump on his Flagrant podcast in 2024 - still finds media coverage highly problematic. After sharing the stage with Family Feud host Steve Harvey for the "New Hollywood: Ownership & Media's Future" session at Invest Fest, the financial education and entrepreneurship conference organized by the media platform and top podcast Earn Your Leisure from founders Troy Millings and Rashad Bilal, in Atlanta, he spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the media's inadequacy during the current administration. "Media is in a very strange place, because you got Fox News, you got CNN, you got MSNBC, those are supposed to be the traditional outlets where people go to get some form of truth. But the reality is they're playing a ratings and revenue game too. We all know Fox News has an agenda, and they stick to their agenda. They stick to their conservative, MAGA talking points. But CNN and MSNBC have an opportunity to play a really pivotal role. But they seem to be leaning into the Fox News audience, which isn't a bad thing. I think there should be a balance, right? But I don't think that there's enough balance on any of those networks," he said. To fill the void, people, according to Charlamagne, have turned to social media and podcast platforms. Meidas Touch - the progressive media platform founded by brothers Ben, Brett and Jordy Meiselas in 2020 that has 5.3 million YouTube subscribers and at least a million followers on Instagram, X and Bluesky - is one of the ones he favors most. "Their sole agenda is to just tell you the truth about what's going on. They're not trying to be down the middle about anything. They're like, 'We are unapologetically against what's going on in the White House.' And you should be if it's authoritarian, if it's fascist, right? If you're seeing that type of strategy play out in the White House, you should be against it. None of us should be happy that constitutional rights are being violated and that people are wiping their ass with the Constitution, because that's not America," he explained. "I've never seen freedom of speech or freedom of the press be attacked in the way it is being attacked now, not in my lifetime. But we got to be unapologetic, honest, unabashed truth-tellers. And that's why, even being in spaces like this, Invest Fest, [is important]. I don't think people even understand how important this is for the culture because they don't want spaces like this to exist; they're actively trying to dismantle spaces like this," he said, referencing the event that attracted more than 20,000 attendees featuring Black speakers like himself, Issa Rae and Earvin "Magic" Johnson. His prognosis regarding the Democratic Party's ability to become this country's savior is grim. "Oh, my God, that's a whole article. To be honest with you, man, they need to blow it all up because they've been part of the problem for a long time. Just because you're the opposite of bad doesn't mean that the status quo thing you were doing was working either, because that status quo thing that you were doing clearly wasn't enough for people, and people were sick of that too. So they really just need to blow the whole thing up; that whole old ideology needs to blow up." The correction, he said, is simple: "They just need to be