Lashing out at 'Lamestream Media', Trump threatens to end White House press conferences
It is possible, though not likely, that we may soon be freed from the daily spectacle of Donald Trump spewing semi-coherent words out his word-hole under the pretense of "pandemic" press briefings. While his advisers seem to fully recognize that the appearances are frequently disastrous, this has been a near-impossible thing to drill into Trump's own thick head; it's not likely he would give them up out of a recognition that he was doing himself harm.
But he may end up ending them for a more Trumpian reason: In the immediate wake of suggesting doctors maybe try injecting COVID-19 patients with bleach or, you know, whatever, he's having a tantrum over the press being mean to him.
The short story is this: On Thursday, Trump had one of his now-usual minor fits at a CNN reporter, telling her during the day's televised briefing that "CNN is fake news. Don't talk to me." Immediately before the next day's briefing, that reporter was told by the White House to change seats so that she was near the back of the room, bringing another reporter into her seat.
As The Washington Post explains, that is not how things work. The White House Correspondents' Association is in charge of the press room's assigned seating, not the White House, and it has been that way for decades. (The intent, obviously, is to preclude the sort of punishments the Trump White House thinks nothing of dishing out, when a specific reporter or news outlet upsets Dear Leader with news he doesn't want to hear.) Both reporters refused. Both reporters continued to refuse even after an unnamed White House official threatened to use the Secret Service to enforce the seat change.
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