The Washington Posts’s Philip Rucker has a behind-the-scenes look at Pres. Trump’s two press availabilities yesterday at his golf club in Bedminster, NJ.
“This was Trump in his element…the cameras trained on him, his vice president and national security advisers looking on admiringly, he parried queries — at times even gleefully — like a tennis player,” writes Rucker, who was part of the press pool, and asked about a plan for Afghanistan and whether Trump has confidence in his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. He does.
Midway through President Trump’s second media availability in a single afternoon here Thursday, his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, held up a sign signaling to the boss that it was time to drop the curtain on the show. “One more question,” it read. The president either did not see her plea or opted to disregard it, because he kept answering questions — for 20 minutes straight, after having already fielded them for seven minutes in the earlier session.
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In case you missed it, here’s the second news conference in full: