Here it is bit modified and extended.
US President Donald Trump has indicated that he may do
something unthinkable again, after trying to ban Muslims from some countries
and immigrants from the US in which he miserably failed. He has threatened to
stop the White House Press briefings all altogether, a tradition that has been
in place since 1929 when the first White House Press Secretary George Akerson
was appointed by President Herbert Hoover.
With a barrage of tweets, he is doing his favourite pastime
again, i.e., media bashing. But what is important that he has gone a step
further and has suggested that he may
stop the White House press briefings all together and would instead prefer to
send written handouts.
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
The Fake Media is working overtime today!
5:23 PM - 12 May 2017
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it
is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!....
5:29 PM - 12 May 2017
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
...Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future
"press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of
accuracy???
5:37 PM - 12 May 2017
His latest flashpoint with Media is the way his press office
has dealt with his unexpected firing of James Comey, the FBI Director. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy Press
Secretary of the White House, first said that Comey's firing would not affect
at all the investigation into the Russian meddling in the US presidential
election. Then she said that Comey's removal would hasten the investigation and
the White House decision was shaped by it.
But all this has been dumped by Donald Trump himself who has
said he fired Comey to ensure that the Russian meddling investigation is done
"absolutely properly" and Comey's firing may, in fact, 'lengthen the
investigation'. Also, before it, several White House officials sent out
messages that Comey's firing was for mishandling the email leak issue of
Hillary Clinton and was, in no way, related to the investigation into Russian
hacking.
Now that is a lot of fodder for any country's media and the
way Trump's White House mishandled the James Comey firing affair, it has swept
the US media. Many US senators have vocally criticized the decision, terming it
an attempt by Trump to affect the FBI investigations as it may prove that Trump
was benefitted from the Russian meddling in the US presidential election last
year. The White House's moment of humiliation was further added by the comments
of the acting FBI Director who praised Comey and said the agency had full faith
in him.
Donald Trump's press wing, under his Press Secretary Sean
Spicer has seen wide criticism and therefore humiliation because of its
inaccurate briefings and the harsh language used by its spokespersons including
Sean Spicer.
Spicer, in fact, began on a wrong note in his very first
press briefing when he termed Donald Trump's inauguration as the most watched
of all US presidential inaugurations so far, something that he was forced to
retract very soon. The list of his controversies is long including the one
where he messed up his wisdom with inaccuracies and misplaced comparisons when
he said that 'even Nazi Hitler didn't use chemical weapons while speaking about
Syrian chemical attack', something for which he had to issue public apology.
And this White House press wing and its Press Secretary and
other spokespersons have to speak for a president who himself has given rise to
series of controversies ever since his inauguration on January 20 this year, be
it his divisive rhetoric, his immigration and travel ban order or the Mexican
border wall or Obamacare repeal or pulling US out of international trade deals
or threatening strategic military alliances like the NATO.
©SantoshChaubey