White House: Trump tweets will ‘challenge’ next press secretary

Published January 18, 2017 7:40pm ET



President-elect Trump’s penchant for using Twitter to criticize lawmakers, bully companies and take swipes at other nations could make his top spokesman’s job unusually difficult, according to outgoing White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

“It will be a challenge,” Earnest, who conducted his last press briefing a day earlier, told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Wednesday morning.

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