Trump’s Opportunity to Bring Balance to White House Press Room
29th December 2024
The incoming Trump White House, including press secretary Karoline Leavitt, is signaling that it wants to revamp the press briefing room. This is an outstanding idea.
Numerous studies show a strained relationship between the national media and conservatives, leading many observers to hope the second Trump administration will proactively ensure that the White House briefing room brings balanced voices to express voters’ concerns.
The first Trump administration was marked by an unusually adversarial relationship with the national media, including inside the White House’s iconic James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
President-elect Donald Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, told me that the Trump White House continued a decades-old, informal tradition of allowing the White House Correspondents Association to determine seating assignments in the briefing room.
In the second Trump term, this could all change—for the better.
I’d make them line up and take turns, first come first served. Perhaps the urge to sit down would prompt a bit of concision.