After watching most of the morning news shows blast him and his communications department’s handling of the firing of FBI Director Jim Comey, President Donald Trump took to Twitter:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump 49m49 minutes ago
The Fake Media is working overtime today!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump 43m43 minutes ago
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
Donald J. Trumpâ€
@realDonaldTrump 35m35 minutes ago
…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future “press briefings” and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward adopted written responses (i.e. press statements) to media inquiries in 2014, after he discontinued his “Mornings with the Mayor” press briefings in January of that year. He halted his annual “State of the City” addresses in October 2013.
And yesterday, he forbid the Pensacola City Council from asking questions of his appointees prior to a council vote to approve their appointments.