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Dan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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
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angela | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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Dan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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!".
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angela | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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Dan | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.