Trump refuses to commit to Sean Spicer when pressed by Fox News
President Donald Trump may find it totally appropriate to ask appointees like former FBI director James Comey to pledge their loyalty to the administration, but there is little indication that Trump has any allegiance to any of his top staffers.
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In an interview with Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro on Friday, the president complained about hostility and unfair treatment at the hands of the media. Trump told Pirro that he thinks it is a “good idea” to not have press conferences, making the suggestion for the second time in one day.
On Fox News, Trump added that he might just hold press conferences himself.
“You see the ratings. Blowing away everything on — just about, I think, everything, on daytime television. What I’d love to do is stop them,” Trump said. “Unless I have them every two weeks and I do them myself, we don’t have them,” he said.
“Are you moving so quickly that your communications department can’t keep up with you?” Pirro asked the president. In place of the daily briefings, Trump said he’d put out paper statements pushing his message, like administrations did before the dawn of television and email.
