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This pre-canned presentation will consume much of the allotted time @presssec has reserved for the WH press briefing, relieving her from having to answer many questions.

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It seems as if maybe the White House doesn’t really want to talk to the press



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/25/it-seems-like-maybe-the-white-house-doesnt-really-want-to-talk-to-the-press/?noredirect=on

In the last 10 days of his tenure as President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest spent more than seven hours in five daily news briefings answering questions from the media. His last words to the press corps before he left the White House?

“It’s been a genuine pleasure.”

It seems that the most recent person to occupy that position doesn’t share Earnest’s assessment of holding news briefings. Over the past two months, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her deputies haven’t spent a combined seven hours briefing the media.

On Thursday, we looked at President Trump’s indifference to talking to the media, exemplified by the number of solo news conferences he has held: One. Obama held more than a dozen over his first 16 months in office.