As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already Showing Lack of Transparency

NBC News ^ | Nov 15 2016, 10:21 pm ET | Alexandra Jaffe & Ali Vitali

[onemiddleamerican]

In a highly unusual move, President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday night left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.

The maneuver seemed to deliberately limit access to the media.

The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."

[Jeff Chandler]

I watched his 60 Minutes interview where that interviewer nagged him about his use of Twitter. Trump was presenting a strategically non-confrontational face, but it was easy to read between the lines. He uses Twitter as a means to circumvent the Communist news media.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

“... left his Manhattan residence without notifying the reporters covering him or giving any indication of where he was going.”

What do they think they are, his mother?

[Steve_Seattle]

Why do the press a**holes think they need to follow Trump to dinner? Their only reason for doing so would be to find some reason to criticize him, some way to nitpick his every word and action. They can go to hell.

[Texas Eagle]

If banning fake news sites is good enough for facebook, it should be good enough for FR.

Heh, heh. Just kidding. What would we do without the hysteria the mainstream media will exhibit over the next 8 years?

[jiggyboy]

Maybe Trump should gin up an email alias, use it to correspond with a high-ranking government official via her a home-brew email server, and then lie about. That’s how you get them to call you “transparent”.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC are all just propaganda-paparazzi anyway. Bankruptcy becomes them.

[onemiddleamerican]

NBC is about as fake as news can get.

[pacificus]

Preach It Bro!

[shanover]

These days I can’t tell the difference between real news and the Onion. He went to dinner with his family........Oh,the humanity!

[Redwood71]

Trump has a disdain for the media, especially the libs. I suppose if he has to got to the bathroom, they’ll want a press conference to hear how it came out? Film at eleven.

Everything he does is not the peoples’ business. And this following his throwing them off his plane going to the white house, may be the start of a beautiful friendship cause if they get pissed and try to hurt him, they’ll never get called at a press conference. And it will be time for the agriculture report at their station without material. Either that or the sound of crickets Goodnight Chet.

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[Steve_Seattle]

"transparency"

It is laughable that the press would invoke the notion of "transparency" while quibbling over Trump's dinner arrangements, as if those arrangements are any business of the press or the public. They would just use it as an opportunity to criticize or mock him. Remember how they mocked Pence during the campaign for going to a common-man chain restaurant during a campaign stop in New York?

[pacificus]

I loved the tape where he pretended to be someone else, talking about his Ex...and then Meeegan asked the press-bot...did you leak the tape??? And the pressbot said...Meeegan, I LOST the tape 20 years ago.....and Meeegan said, wait what?...then who released the tape? And the pressbot said, Donald!.....and Meeeegan had an underwear changing moment...because she knew, she’d just been PLAYED!!!

[Lopeover]

Bwahahahahahahahaha! Marxist propaganda press should be used to a lack of transparency after 8 years of Obama.

[taterjay]

Yep, and they don’t have sense enough to ignore him. His name continues to be in the news everyday regardless. He continually controls the narrative and optics. We are still winnning!!!!

[vooch]

He Walked in and immediately got a standing ovation - in Manhattan !

[UCANSEE2]

Trump needs to yank the press credentials of all the Wikileaks exposed leftists (NYT etc) and give it to the real press:

Dang, give the guy a break. He hasn't even been officially sworn in yet.

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[Strac6]

Wow, he didn’t get the media’s permission to have dinner!!!!

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[HokieMom]

Standing ovation and cheers for @realDonaldTrump

[b4me]

The guy is not allowed to call it a day and go get a steak?

or do they have some sort of dismissal bell he forgot to ring?

[combat_boots]

Presstitutes are angry they couldn’t follow on and get comped for a steak dinner as a business expense.