'Buy as much as you can': MAGA reporter hawks phones from White House in bizarre advert

A news correspondent who openly supports President Donald Trump recorded a commercial inside the White House Monday — potentially breaking ethics rules.

In a video recording with the briefing room as a backdrop, reporter Corinne Cliford encouraged her followers to purchase satellite phones from her sponsor.

"Even though I'm in the White House press corps, I have to be safe," she explained, using the briefing room as a backdrop. "I have to make sure I have my bulletproof backpack. I have to make sure I have my satellite phone. I have to make sure that I have Faraday bags."

"I want all of you to drop everything you're doing right now," she continued, telling her followers to go to her sponsor's website. "I want you to shop and buy as much as you can afford to buy."

Like many conservative influencers, Cliford offered a "discount code" to entice purchases.

"Make sure that you buy everything you need because emergencies do happen, even in big cities."

Federal regulations prohibit staffers at the White House from endorsing products, the Washington Post. It is understood that those rules extend to media members with press credentials allowing them inside the building.

After Trump was elected in 2024, Cliford told Real America's Voice that she looked forward to the president making America great again.

"I'm most thankful that the truth is becoming so apparent," she said at the time. "We need to have major change and really care about 'we the people.' We really need to focus on what you and I, what all of us here care about, which is what President Trump and his team are going to be doing. So we are going to have major change. We are going to make America great again."

"And I'm so excited," she added. "I get goosebumps about it."