Oddbean new post about login | logout People forget the past. At least we have access to our elected officials right now. https://theconversation.com/trump-white-house-goes-300-days-without-a-press-briefing-why-thats-unprecedented-130164
Trump averaged 22 press conferences per year during his 4 years. Biden has averaged roughly 10. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences
Shared for vis because fair is fair. The point re: access remains. Former President Trumps Administration went over 300 days w no WH Press Briefings, cutting routine frontline bipartisan access to the Administration.
It's all meaningless political theater. But the least useful part of the theater is the daily press briefing. Watching a press secretary flip through a binder while the President is in hiding (or napping) isn't meaningful or useful. Particularly gross when the daily press briefing becomes one piece in a larger scheme to hide the president's dementia from the public while chanting "transparency!".
I tried to engage with you. I engage with facts which is why I shared your link. Your reply now, is either hyperbolic, or you believe what you say. Either way it’s not grounded. Heard up I only do 2 at replies to a topic.
Not really sure what you mean 😕 You proposed that the Trump admin not engaging in press briefings and the Biden admin embracing daily press briefings somehow illustrates a meaningful lack of, or abundance of, transparency. I'm arguing that Biden has objectively been the least available/public POTUS in modern history (backed up by concrete statistics). BECAUSE his administration has been actively hiding his physical and mental degradation. That's not hyperbole, it's a direct rebuttal of your original point. Press Secretaries flipping through and reading back prewritten propaganda to a room of "journalists" isn't transparency.