Media Grill Jen Psaki on Joe Biden’s Failure to Hold Press Conference
Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday was asked when President Joe Biden will address the White House press corps independently.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday was asked when President Joe Biden will address the White House press corps independently.
Biden staffers have prescreened reporters ahead of Jen Psaki’s briefings to see what they plan to ask the White House press secretary, according to a report from the left-wing Daily Beast.
Reporters with the White House Press Corps pressed the Trump administration, via Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, on Tuesday on the question of shutting down the U.S. economy down in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The White House press corps has asked President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, the same question for the last four briefings in a row: does the president believe there is “systemic racism” in law enforcement?
A member of the White House Press Corps shouted a question at President Donald Trump during a Rose Garden press conference on Friday morning: “How would a better economy have protected George Floyd?”
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta shouted at a question at President Donald Trump Monday evening, demanding to know if the United States is “still a democracy” after air and ground troops from the District of Columbia National Guard were deployed around the nation’s capital.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shot down a question from a member of the White House Press Corps on Friday about the views she held on same-sex marriage as a Harvard Law School student in 2015.
Conservative radio host Mark Levin mocked Democrats and the White House Press Corps on Tuesday for their newfound interest in federalism, after they attacked President Donald Trump for believing he had the authority to re-open the economy.
The White House Press Corps challenged President Donald Trump’s contention that he has the authority to reopen the U.S. economy after the coronavirus abates — after pestering him for several days in a row to impose a national shutdown.
How about this? One measly day a week, after his usual briefing, instead of answering the same questions over and over and over from the corporate media, Trump answers questions from a group of people outside the corporate media — from some outside thinkers.
Chanel Rion, OANN’s White House correspondent, said Thursday that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham invited her to attend the day’s White House coronavirus task force briefing after she was barred by White House Correspondents’ Association for allegedly breaching social distancing guidelines.
The media are an opposition that most people already dislike intensely. For Trump, they are an ideal rhetorical foil.
Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire shouted a question about the Michael Cohen hearing during a public meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam Wednesday.
Several veteran White House reporters noted — to their surprise — that President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening won applause from Democrats as well as Republicans.
President Donald Trump gave a long-overdue lesson to the White House press corps about the Constitution’s limits on executive power — limits the media largely ignored under President Barack Obama, because they agreed with his policies and wished to see him succeed politically.
Columnists at two establishment media outlets, Poynter and the BBC, have broken ranks to criticize CNN’s Jim Acosta’s unprofessional grandstanding.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” “The Circus” host and Executive Producer and NBC National Affairs Analyst John Heilemann stated that he couldn’t tolerate being a member of the White House Press Corps and dealing with the “Baghdad
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that the White House Press Briefing should be scrapped, and members of the press corps “should walk out en masse and make a statement.” Maher said, “I think they
Kayleigh McEnany, Republican National Committee spokeswoman talked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding President Trump’s response to events in Charlottesville and media reaction to it.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Donald Trump’s tweet against MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday: “The American people elected a fighter,” she said.
Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the White House Press Corps on Tuesday that CNN was “a disgrace to journalism.”
CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta tweeted a false report that said President Donald Trump did not visit with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) in the hospital after Wednesday’s shooting, fueling fake news allegations.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told the White House Press Corps that while a government shutdown is “not desirable” it could become a reality come September if the appropriations process is not repaired.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested that the media was downplaying the news revealing that former President Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice unmasked the identities of Trump campaign aides during the 2016 election.
Vice President of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, Dan Gainor, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Monday regarding recent reports of media reaction to an employee of the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal being part of the White House press corps.
Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker gives a platform to establishment reporters whinging about how President Donald Trump is changing the White House’s interactions with the press. It’s not about their egos and seating charts, they feel the need to protest — they just “don’t appreciate diversity of journalistic practice.” (???)
Paul Farhip, a straight-down-the-middle,, objective reporter for the extremely non-partisan, ideologically unbridled Washington Post, frets about “partisan” news outlet The Daily Signal being part of the White House press corps.
Tom Hanks sent a little encouragement to the White House press corps this week by gifting them a brand-new espresso machine for their break room.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer condemned CNN’s Jim Acosta for his aggressive tack trying to get a question in at President-elect Donald Trump’s press conference at Trump Tower in New
Sydney Ember writes in the New York Times about changes coming to the White House Press Room, including greater participation of “online media outlets” like Breitbart News.