Trump’s press secretary said the White House is looking at other ways to “showcase” his “great entrepreneurship.”
President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again coronavirus briefing is back on, the White House announced Monday, a reversal of course that came hours after the administration canceled its previously scheduled afternoon press conference.
The White House’s waffling on Monday’s briefing followed a Fox News interview with press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who teased that the administration’s coronavirus briefings “may have a different look” this week. Within an hour of McEnany’s Monday morning interview, the White House circulated an updated daily schedule with the day’s press conference erased.
Hour’s later, McEnany, wrote on Twitter that Trump would indeed brief the press as previously scheduled.
“UPDATE: The White House has additional testing guidance and other announcements about safely opening up America again. President @realDonaldTrump will brief the nation during a press conference this evening,” McEnany posted on Twitter.
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McEnany, in her interview with Fox News, said the White House is looking at other ways to “showcase” President Donald Trump’s “great entrepreneurship,” and added that the briefings are an important part of that as a way for the president to “speak directly to the American people.”
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that the daily coronavirus briefings "may have a different look" this week, teasing a shift amid cresting criticism of Trump's performance at his marathon press conferences https://t.co/pSiFAqFjhu
— POLITICO (@politico) April 27, 2020
Yeeeeee haaaaaawwwww https://t.co/m3uJ7fih9c
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020
Between his multiple "sarcastic" fails and Brad Pitt playing Fauci, the White House staff has probably been throwing their bodies in front of the door to the press room. And he's going to go do it anyway.
I shall be at the ready.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020
I hope someone at the presser asks him about West Point. And about whether he thinks a national crisis is a great time for sarcasm.
Of course, he might not answer questions, but I assume the reason it's on again is that he is jonesing for a showdown.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020
I think he held this press conference purely because he was pissed about being told to shut up over the weekend, and because his staff told him not to do it, so he went ahead and did it anyway.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2020
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