BREAKING: John Barron (Trump’s known past pseudonym) called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court’s tariff decision. pic.twitter.com/xqxqIqpLwK
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 22, 2026
Trump or not, C-SPAN officials took the whole thing so seriously they put out a statement after the viral public reaction to the show denying the caller was Trump.
But whether it was or not, Brawner choked.
Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person…
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 22, 2026
Even just the C-SPAN statement on the X platform received millions of views itself.
