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Trump: "Let's end WH press-conferences bc my spokespeople cannot keep up with my flip-flopping."
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/05/14/fox-trump-threatens-end-daily-press-briefings-because-press-has-level-hostility-thats-incredible/216438TRUMP: You see the ratings. They're blowing away everything, on just about, I think, everything, on daytime television. What I'd love to do is stop them. It's not fair to the people. I’ll give you -- look, I am a very active person. I have a lot of very positive things going on right up here for this country. It's impossible for a person or two people or three people who are press people to cover every aspect of what I'm thinking or what I am doing. And I think it's unfair. And, if they get it just a little bit wrong, they don't mean to, they're liars, they're liars, they're horrible people, they're liars, the press goes. And it becomes a big story for two days or three days. And it's very, very unfair to a person in that job. I think that’s really a tough job, to be honest. Especially for me because I'm having meeting after meeting, I'm cutting the price of the airplanes with Lockheed [Martin]. I'm cutting the price of airplanes with Boeing. I'm doing all of these things. I'm making deals for China, with China. I'm trying to solve a problem in North Korea, which by the way is a really big problem.
PIRRO: I want to get into North Korea. But are you moving so quickly that your communications department cannot keep up with you?
TRUMP: Yes, that's true.
PIRRO: So what do we do about that? Because --
TRUMP: We don't have press conferences. And we do --
PIRRO: You don't mean that.
TRUMP: Just don't have them, unless I have them every two weeks and I do it myself. We don't have them. I think it's a good idea. ...
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