Oh come on, even I could wobble up to the press podium, with gallons of sweat pouring off me, and give a daily presser. But is fat shaming the true reason for less daily press meetings- PB/TK
Steve Bannon says Sean Spicer does fewer daily briefings because he ‘got fatter’ – By Sonam Sheth / June 20 2017
When he was asked why the White House has recently diminished the number of daily press briefings in favor of off-camera gaggles, chief strategist Steve Bannon replied, “Sean got fatter.”
Bannon, making the comment to a reporter for The Atlantic, was referring to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who has been in the public eye less over the past few weeks. Bannon reportedly did not respond to follow-up questions from the Atlantic reporter.
The decision to downsize daily press briefings did not happen overnight, though President Donald Trump did threaten to eliminate them all together last month. “…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future ‘press briefings’ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???” he tweeted.
Instead of canceling them, the Trump administration has slowly rolled back the daily briefing, gradually decreasing reporters’ access to White House officials and the president. Now, as opposed to the daily, on-camera briefing, Spicer has more routinely favored off-camera press gaggles. And in some recent cases, news outlets were instructed not to record audio of the gaggles.
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