Continuing battle with media, Trump avoids news conference

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Less than a month from taking office, President-elect Donald Trump has yet to hold the traditional news conference that most incoming presidents have held within days of their victory.

As of Thursday, it had been 147 days since Trump held his last formal news conference as a candidate.

Trump, whose refusal to do a news conference has been criticized by journalism groups and media watchdogs, has instead tried to convey his message directly to the American public, bypassing the media with pronouncements at his boisterous rallies and, of course, distributing his thoughts 140 characters at a time on his famed Twitter account.

He was slated to hold a press conference on December 15 to discuss his plan to leave his sprawling business empire as he takes office, but that event was postponed. Aides have said it will be rescheduled for January, but no date has yet been set.

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[Cattledog]

1. He complained about Hillary not doing Press Conferences...

what an infant...I bet he only does PCs with friendly media if he ever does any at all.

[PatSeg]

3. Yes

That's what I think of whenever this subject comes up. He attacked her daily for weeks because she hadn't held a news conference. Everything he does or says contradicts what he has said or done before. What a total jackass.

Meanwhile, the media made him the celebrity that he is and he used the media every chance he could. Now he just flips them off, like he does everyone else once he is done with them.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I spend every Monday through Friday with an actual infant.

She is not as immature as Trump.

[MBS]

19. " " " "" n/t

[Coolest Ranger]

2. Damn

wouldn't it be funny they give him all this media time, 2 billion dollars worth and now he's giving them the middle finger

[C Moon]

5. He's too pissed off about the lack of enteratinment for his inaugural (IMO)

What a dumb ass thing for a President to be obsessed about.
A shining example of what is to come.

[SunSeeker]

6. Fascists will not countenance being asked questions by journalists.

This should surprise no one.

[bdamomma]

7. so will the press

grow a backbone and call out this sob?

[Blue Idaho]

8. That fat fuck is about to learn one of the truths of the Presidency

He needs the M$M each and every day. Only 24% of Americans have Twitter accounts. As much as he hopes he can talk over the heads of the media using Twitter - it won't work. Not when the shit hits the fan.

[Cosmocat]

11. You do realize he won the presidency?

This is like the he can't win talk.

The old "rules" are out the window.

We are full out in a post truth, realty country.

[Blue Idaho]

12. Don't believe it.

There is no such thing as a post fact world. When he tanks the economy and the shit hits the fan the facts will be painfully obvious and the suffering will be real.

Ask the guys that ran the thousand year Reich just how far propaganda can take you.

[Cosmocat]

15. Ok

nm

[Sunlei]

24. hey I tweet that unfit everyday- "4.6% unemployment TODAY" you Rs better not fuck that up!

That's why he's afraid to face real questions in real America.

[JI7]

14. the media reports what he says on twitter so that itself wont be a problem for him

[Sunlei]

25. don't understand why people pay $800? a year or more to watch 'media' spend 50 hours talk on 1 tweet

[yeoman6987]

27. More like 2400 a year average.

Cable is through the roof now a days.

[pangaia]

26. But other media are constantly spreading everything he says on twitter...

[randome]

9. Please, someone ask if Meredith McIver is going to be part of his administration.

I seriously think this is the topic that will bring him to his knees.

There may be a real Meredith McIver somewhere (was it Florida?) but she is not the Meredith McIver that Trump keeps referencing. That Meredith McIver is fictitious.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[yuiyoshida]

10. Wouldn't it be something if the Locked himself away in the white house

not allowing anyone to see him for the next four years, and only reacts via twitter, to anyone who says anything about him, like some kind of hermit.

[BlueStater]

17. That would cause him to have a nervous breakdown.

The man-baby needs to be constantly adored and listened to by people.

[JI7]

13. they propped him up and allowed this shit to hapoen

[Skittles]

16. he is scared of them

he is a fucking coward

[Sunlei]

22. trump is scared of press questions, he is UNFIT. Republicans better replace their president.

[Nash Teeth]

18. Could be trying to hide the Alzheimer's symptoms

until they get stabilized on meds?

[Sunlei]

23. whats to hide? trump has, NOT ONE presser of 'quality' his entire life. Compare to ANY of thousands

and thousands of "quality" press questions Obama, Hillary, Kerry, Warren and plenty of other real American greats have answered.

[sarcasmo]

20. Rallies and Twitter WWIII

[Sunlei]

21. Republicans are ALL afraid to face real questions. They all hide on their republican-fox-lies TV.

Even Pence won't face the questions and Pence does ALL the transition work trumps is to ignorant to handle. Make Pence do the damn pressers because trump is unfit to even do that simple task.

Sucks how Republicans use trump to block Americans right to know what their government is doing, we have a right to observe OUR government at work.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Can you imagine what the first "State of the Union Address" will be like?

If there even is one. What a joke!