Posted on 06/05/2020 6:01:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
The White House turned the White House press corps into stage scenery on Friday, and may have violated its own social-distancing rules in doing so.
When reporters gathered in the Rose Garden for what they had been told by White House officials was a presidential news conference, they found several rows of chairs arrayed on the lawn. The seats were spaced far apart, in keeping with the public-health protocols that the White House has observed at indoor and outdoor press events since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in mid-March.
Just before President Trump and top officials emerged from the West Wing, staffers slid the chairs into close formation, bunching reporters shoulder-to-shoulder.
White House officials apparently wanted a tighter television shot, subtly reinforcing Trump’s message that the country is getting back to normal after three months in lockdown.
White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, that the arrangement “looks better” in TV images, according to a statement from the WHCA.
White House press officials did not return a request for comment.
And yet reporters didn’t even get the news conference they were beckoned for, as they were not permitted to ask questions. The reporters were allowed merely to observe the president — and be observed by TV viewers — as he delivered lengthy remarks.
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And the Compost reports on seat arrangements instead of the contents of the speech.
Best. President. Ever.
ROFLOL
Bless their little cold hearts.
They’re ok with protesters not social distancing. The press peeps only wear masks when the camera is rolling. Shine the light.
The White House should have just called it a teach-in about white privilege. Then it social distancing is no longer necessary.
If they get the virus, they best not take the medication that shant be named, they will shirley perish
No, no, no, nothing of the kind.
They were just trying their luck at maybe knocking a few of them off with covid.
They would never humiliate them by using them as props.
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Marvelous.... the media is background for the REAL Message— Trump is the President of the United States, and comes through on his policies and the Country is Coming Back. Exponentially.
All pissing them off— and this is the see—eye-ehhhhhh mouthpiece owned by Bezos whose Amazon has a contract with them for “Cloud” management 600 million to buy the WaPo. A govt.agency loaning/giving money to a mouthpiece rag lying publication for them.
Beautiful play, Mr. President.
Farhi the Jihadi spends every column to disparage Republicans. Every day, every article is the steady drumbeat of hating America.
Look at these gems:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/paul-farhi/
He’s a POS.
They are free to skip. Nobody will miss their stupid questions.
They’re ok with protesters not social distancing.
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I am sure if ANY of them would DARE to venture out for tomorrows festivities, there won’t be a peep out of them.
‘They’ allow a couple hundred thousand (projected Million..yeah) and no one says a word.
Where are all the business owners and a collective WTF?
Allow all that trash and the fiasco of a political rally called a memorial service with hundreds elbow to elbow, shoulder to shoulder, some masked some not and nary a peep.
Let 18 or 22 or even 10 boys/men/women go out for a game and they will call the swat team on them or Lord forbid a full CHURCH.
Why are all these Pastors etal silent????
A bunch of cowards. They’re afraid of a flu bug — not that I disregard the threat to the frail elderly, but these reporters are a youngish crowd, who obviously never learned anything either in school or in life.
Demand to speak to the manager.
Yes! Make them appear on national television as ignoring their own tripe about social distancing for the benefit of saying social distancing doesn’t matter.
I love this man!
It delighteth my soul to have them seething.
What you should take away is that all those damn protesters are shoulder to shoulder and no one says boo.
Nobody herded them in and made them fill every seat.
Obviously the media can’t figger out what 6’ is unless a federal employee does it for them.
They don’t have to show up. Trump will get his message out with or without them.
CNN and MSNBC have not even been showing PDJT’s press conferences lately. They showed this one, ready with all of their gotcha questions. Trump did not give them any. So they took a sentence about George Floyd completely out of context, then framed it with something it was not, for their headlines.
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