The fake helicopter "news conferences"..

[kentuck]

Sarah Sanders stopped with the traditional White House news conferences some time ago. They were mostly a litany of lies and not very useful, but the reporters got to ask her questions. They never got any straight answers but the questions were asked.

Now, Mr Trump stops on his way to his helicopter, with the reporters bent down behind a rope line, and answers "some" questions. But, he only answers the ones that are about his talking points for the day. On occasion, a reporter might shout out a question that cannot be ignored, and be blamed for being "very rude", as did one MSNBC reporter did last week. But, she was able to get the information that Mr Trump never spoke to Mr Putin about election interference in an hour and a half phone call. That was newsworthy.

Otherwise, the helicopter blades are whirring and Mr Trump ignores all the questions he doesn't want to talk about.

This is no way for the American people to get their news. The reporters are being manipulated.

[empedocles]

1. Doonesbury 'goes there'. 'News conference' strip, key line, 'apparently potus is

having one of his 25th amendmend days.' !!!

[Historic NY]

2. Imagine if only 1 camera person was there an no reporters....

just to document the look on his face. Its time the press boycott him

[Zoonart]

5. HAHA.

Love the stink bug.

[ginnyinWI]

6. I'd love to watch that.

He'd probably walk over to the camera and make a few statements anyway. It has to always be all about him.

[homegirl]

15. Exact;y

what I have been saying for two years!

[malaise]

16. Ditto

[Firestorm49]

3. So why is Sanders still on the payroll at our expense? She's excess baggage at this point.

[kentuck]

4. She is the best liar on the team...

She may be needed as a pinch hitter?

[barbtries]

13. i don't know that she's the best liar.

but she'll say anything, absolutely anything.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Like Sarah Huck is not doing the job she is paid to do. She is doing the job Trump hired her to do.

Sarah Huck is not doing the job she is paid for.

She is doing the job she was hired to do.

[2naSalit]

7. They also just pulled all the press passes of most of the WH press corp. ...nt

[Greybnk48]

8. Colbert makes fun of "Chopper Talk."

It's so childish and ridiculous.

[barbtries]

9. i guess we'll have to know them by their actions.

let's have some of those reporters get out to the border and to some of the private prisons where immigrants are being tortured.

[watoos]

11. Yes, very little discussion about,

how much money a handful of people are making from detaining immigrants.

[llmart]

12. +1000

Ask one question. "Where are all the children?"

[ancianita]

14. Not just manipulated. Dissed and dismissed.

[caraher]

17. End the charade completely

News organizations should pull the plug on "White House" coverage entirely and focus on investigative journalism. A free press does not serve as stenographers for congenital liars.

[PufPuf23]

18. The recent revoking of many MSM WH media passes is

major troubling.

The POTUS/WH not having press conferences, manipulating the press, and lying to the press should be unacceptable in our democracy.

A majority of Americans take no notice and many, using the model provided by Trump, now consider the press as enemies.

There has been a long slow slide into the disfunction of now.

Dangerous.

[KPN]

19. Yep, staged for maximum benefit. Think about it -- it even makes him look like a busy pResident ...

which we all know is pure 100% bullshit.

[Blue Owl]

20. And once again Donald is safe in the chopper...

n/t