Team Trump is writing up “rules and regulations” for how reporters should behave during White House press briefings, President Trump said Friday.
“People have to behave and we are writing up rules and regulations. I think you were treated very unfairly. Both of you were treated very unfairly because you have people interrupting you,” the president said at the White House.
He was apparently referring to reporters who he said were interrupted by CNN’s Jim Acosta as he persisted in questioning the president during a contentious news conference last week.
Trump’s comments came hours after a federal judge on Friday ruled the White House had to return press credentials to Acosta — at least temporarily — rebuking the president’s decision to yank them after that briefing.
But the president — who frequently rejects and insults reporters in person and on Twitter — insisted the new rules would ensure “decorum” during the increasingly rare briefings.
“You can’t take three or four questions and stand up and not sit down. We want total freedom of the press. That’s very important. More important to me than anybody would believe,” he said.
“If they don’t listen to the rules and regulations, we will end up back in court and we will win. More importantly, we will just leave. Then you won’t be very happy. We do get good ratings,” he said.
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I think that we'd all like to see some decorum return to the press room, as well as some relevant and insightful questions.
ReplyDeleteI say no more press briefs. All this disrespectful actions by these so called adults. The should put out a 15 minute statement every Friday and have the press make appointments of 5 minutes each 2 times a week. Then the reporters be removed from the WH if they don't abide. The WH can schedule interviews outside of these meetings at their discretion and with the news medias they choose.
ReplyDeleteIf the liberal retard media thinks we should place restrictions on the second amendment, then maybe we should place restrictions on the first amendment as well.
ReplyDeleteVery soon we will be Venezuela.