Beyond 'no comment': The White House has no response -- at all -- to many media questions
Source: Washington Post
Beyond no comment: The White House has no response at all to many media questions
By Paul Farhi
December 31, 2018
The New York Times published a powerful story last week about President Trumps growing isolation in the White House, with colorful details such as Trumps tendency to interrupt advisers during meetings to call them freaking idiots (except he doesnt use the word freaking).
Asked to comment by the Timess reporters about this, the White House said nothing. It did not respond.
Similarly, it offered no response when The Washington Post asked the White House about Trumps false claim during a post-Christmas Day visit to U.S. troops in Iraq that he boosted military pay by 10 percent.
Reporters are used to officials who respond to their inquiries with a terse no comment. This was typically the practice in prior presidential administrations when officials saw no strategic value in rebutting an unflattering story.
But as in so many things, the Trump administration is different. Instead of no comment, Trumps press representatives often dont bother saying anything at all.
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