Analysis: Pretending to ban a Washington Post columnist from the White House is a sign that the White House is losing its public-relations battle with journalists
The administration’s cheap-jack tactics won’t exclude Milbank or other reporters from the White House. As Farhi notes, the hard pass is good for two years, but reporters who don’t hold hard passes can still apply for daily, weekly, or six-month passes for White House visits. The new rules merely inconvenience the White House reporters by forcing them to keep attendance records and to jump through the administration’s bureaucratic hoops if they miss too many days.
What’s next on the Trump administration’s agenda, Sanders taking daily attendance for the White House press corps? Truancy notes to editors? As many have noted, it’s not as if the president dislikes the press. He loves to take reporters’ questions on the White House lawn, or as they shout them out as he boards Marine One, or when a foreign dignitary comes to visit, or when he turns a White House event into a wild,or the Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity shows.
It’s hard to interpret the new hard pass rules as anything but Trump’s payback for his face-losing loss in the Acosta contretemps. He lost so badly in that round that White House carpenters had to build a special weeping room in the residential quarter for him to decant his tear ducts. These new rules—unlike his arbitrary and capricious treatment of Acosta—seem safe from being challenged or overturned.
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