WH Coronavirus briefing: No audio or video permitted--only still photos.

[Mrs. Overall]

Link to tweet

Jim Acosta
@Acosta
WH is allowing only still photos of this Coronavirus briefing. No audio or video permitted. Here is a photo of the VP as the briefing began.

[hlthe2b]

1. Because Pence can't stop showing his ignorance and lying... They have to clean it up

in print.

[Blues Heron]

2. So transparent!

[renate]

3. that's super reassuring

Nothing like secrecy to stop a pandemic.

[spanone]

4. WTF???

[bluestarone]

5. How could ANYBODY consider EVER voting for these SCUMBAGS!

Half of our country are complete fucking lowlife IDIOTS!!

[central scrutinizer]

18. Loss of white privilege

Scares the bejeebus out of them and they’ll willingly suffer as long as they believe brown folks are suffering more

[jmbar2]

6. Is it because he wiped his nose last time, then shook hands with the team?

Link to tweet

[UpInArms]

12. That is alarming behavior

What is he, 3 years old?

[2naSalit]

7. I'm surprised he's even trying

with these PCs that don't tell us anything other than, "You're on your own."

[Politicub]

8. The way they're handling this is creepy AF

It’s going to get bad and fast because of the lack of leadership from incompetent nincompoops like Pence.

[cwydro]

11. Perfectly put.

These morons scare me more than the virus.

[Newest Reality]

9. Why bother?

I mean, the scam is clearly on. Only believers will go for any pretense of a briefing.

Are they test marketing secret meetings or is this a trip to the Land of Make Believe?

I vote zero confidence and wouldn't stake my life on a stock of clowns that migrated from an old P.T. Barnum circus act.

[Johonny]

10. Isn't this the textbook way on how to start a panic

When they act like something is wrong, you assume something is very wrong

[BigmanPigman]

13. They could go a step further and only allow

a sketch artist like in courtrooms.

[volstork]

14. This is enormously

fucked up. A public health crisis in which information is being withheld from the public.

I'm tired of all the GD winning already...

[PCIntern]

15. Nazified Pandemic

Out of their minds

[Horse with no Name]

16. Well this is the only way they can call it fake news

Smh

[Wounded Bear]

17. They didn't invite RT or PRAVDA?

[Caliman73]

19. I know this is naive, but the reporters should have just stood up and walked out.

They are being used as propaganda. Or set up to be attacked again. If they report information out of that briefing without audio and video to back up what they are saying and it is just going to be "Fake News"

Even with video and audio, there would be that outcry from the idiot in the White House, but now there won't even be hard evidence to support any defense of the press.

[Takket]

20. what the fuck kind of briefing doesn't let you watch the briefing???????

[Bev54]

21. The Canadian News

provides us with the video of daily WHO briefings from Switzerland, which brings us up to date each morning. I would suggest that people start watching Canadian News (updated all day) or BBC to get the truth of what is going on. I worry it is so much worse in the US and the truth is being hidden. It also explains why the testing is not as rigorous as it is in other countries. Trump does not want to know how many people have it so he does not have to disclose it.

[kairos12]

22. Just use shadow puppets.

[pansypoo53219]

23. can you say potemkin?

[Brother Buzz]

24. This sounds like a press gaggle, not a press briefing