The Wall Street Journal on Thursday asked a simple question about Donald Trump’s latest clash with the media.
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Namely, why?!?
“What was the point for Mr. Trump of provoking this in the first place?” asked the newspaper’s conservative editorial board, which has taken the president to task on multiple issues during his second term.
Read the editorial in full on The Wall Street Journal.
“No President in history has enjoyed TV attention more, and banned media can continue to report on the Administration, albeit without the TV cameras,” it noted of the reality television personality-turned-POTUS.
The board recounted how Trump’s ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House grounds came to be overturned early Thursday by a federal judge.
And it concluded with a pointed dig at Trump’s well-documented love of the limelight:
“Rumors are that Mr. Trump has occasionally considered moving the press corps instead into a nearby building. Today’s briefing room used to be a swimming pool. Perhaps it will be again. But does Mr. Trump love swimming, or does he love being on TV?”
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