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Trump Administration doesn't talk to the News Media very much anymore

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White House Press Office Gives Up Trying to Explain Trump | Ed Brayton
For the first few months of the Trump administration, Sean Spicer held almost daily press briefings. When Sarah Huckabee Sanders took over, she continued that practice for a while, but now it’s only a handful of times a month, if that. And now the Washington Post reports that the White House press office has pretty much given up on even responding to press inquiries at all, and especially trying to explain Trump’s often bizarre claims.
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Then quoting the Washington Post:
Instead of “no comment,” Trump’s press representatives often don’t bother saying anything at all…

The White House has had no response to stories large and small in recent days: reports that Trump planned to meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell, whom he has criticized (no response to Agence France-Presse); the partial shutdown of the federal government (no response to Reuters or USA Today); a report by an advocacy group that wealthy donors gave $55 million to groups supporting his reelection, despite Trump’s stated opposition to such donations during the 2016 campaign (no response to The Washington Post); Trump’s statement that former secretary of state Rex Tillerson was “dumb as a rock” (no response to CNBC); a piece in the Times reporting that a podiatrist may have helped Trump dodge the draft when Trump was a young man at the height of the Vietnam War.

At the same time, the White House seems to have all but stopped explaining Trump’s bizarre tweets.

After Trump tweeted on Christmas Eve that the border wall “will be built with the Shutdown money plus funds already in hand,” the New York Times sought comment from the White House about what “shutdown money’’ was. It got no response.
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That may be why Sarah Huckabee Sanders has lasted as long as she has. She has not had to face the news media very much over the last several months.

Even so, there are some rumors that she may resign.
 
Why would he want to talk to those who don't share his view of reality?
 
I think we’re way past anything being able to help Trump’s mental health.
 
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