{"id":70161,"date":"2026-03-27T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/brendan-carr-is-trumps-fcc-chair-uniquely-powerful-or-a-paper-tiger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:07:30","slug":"brendan-carr-is-trumps-fcc-chair-uniquely-powerful-or-a-paper-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/brendan-carr-is-trumps-fcc-chair-uniquely-powerful-or-a-paper-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Carr: is Trump\u2019s FCC chair uniquely powerful or a paper tiger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator has become one of the most prominent newsmakers in the nation \u2013 he seems to relish the spotlight<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>During a ceremony at the White House late last week honoring the US Naval Academy football team, Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the man he said was \u201cperhaps the most powerful man in this room\u201d: Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are doing some job,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to make the fake news real and respected again, which is not an easy job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/fcc-chair-brendan-carr\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator has become one of the most prominent newsmakers in the nation \u2013 he seems to relish the spotlight During a ceremony at the White House late last week honoring the US Naval Academy football team, Donald Trump gave a shoutout to the man he said was \u201cperhaps the most powerful man in this &#8230; <a title=\"Brendan Carr: is Trump\u2019s FCC chair uniquely powerful or a paper tiger?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/brendan-carr-is-trumps-fcc-chair-uniquely-powerful-or-a-paper-tiger\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brendan Carr: is Trump\u2019s FCC chair uniquely powerful or a paper tiger?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}