Posted on 01/15/2017 1:38:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Three senior officials on Donald Trump's transition team hinted that a plan to evict the press corps from the White House is under "serious consideration" by the president-elect’s incoming administration, Esquire magazine reported.
If the plan is adopted, one official told Esquire, the media will be removed from the White House press room, where it has been located since Richard Nixon was president. They would be relocated either to the White House Conference Center or to a space in the Old Executive Office building, located next door to the White House.
Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, said no decision has been made about such a plan, but acknowledged that "there has been some discussion about how to do it."
Reporters have had some sort of workspace at the White House since Theodore Roosevelt's time, but it became more pronounced during the Nixon era. The room contains work stations and broadcast booths, as well as a briefing area.
Spicer told Esquire that the move was purely one of logistics, noting that the press room may be too small to handle a growing national media. However, Esquire quoted another senior official saying the move was a reaction to coverage that Trump believes has been hostile toward him.
"They are the opposition party," the official told Esquire. "I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room."
“The press is in a lather over this, setting their hair on fire”
They always take the bait with Trump. Hopefully, his appointees will sail through, while the press has their knickers in a twist over their venue.
Prior to it's use as the Press Briefing Room it was a swimming pool where LBJ used to go skinny dipping and Nixon would rather go bowling than swim naked in the White House pool. So instead, he turned it over to the sharks for their daily feeding frenzy!
They’re going to be moved to another area of the White House.
Actually, there should be an “us” them between the administration and the media. They are different ‘estates’.
A separate space would help emphasize that difference and would make ‘insider’ cultivation a little bit harder. Those in different buildings see one another as somewhat different, even if only in buildings.
First of all...they’ve only been there since Nixon. This is absolutely no big deal.
No assigned seats then. Let them scramble for a chair!
I love this. This is delicious.
>>No assigned seats then. Let them scramble for a chair!<<
Put it to music.
“They are the opposition party,” a senior [Trump] official was quoted by Esquire. “I want ‘em out of the building. We are taking back the press room.”
Put in a spa, hot tub, etc.
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