White House press secretary Sean Spicer admitted Friday that President Trump isn’t always happy with his team’s public briefings, but still defended his effort to convey accurate information to the public each day.
“We don’t always have the opportunity to go in to see the president, and I think in those cases we do a pretty good job of following up,” Spicer said Friday. His comments came a day after Trump contradicted deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders in an interview, during which he relayed new and conflicting information about when he decided to remove the FBI director.
“I think he’s a little dismayed as well,” Spicer said of the way briefings have occasionally devolved into combative affairs.
Spicer said the White House press team always tries to provide the information they have at the time. “And yet we see time and time again an attempt to parse every little word and make it a game of ‘gotcha,'” he said.
Spicer also criticized the lack of questions related to policy and his agenda items during daily press briefings.
On Friday, Trump tweeted that he could consider canceling the briefings and substituting them with written answers to questions if reporters remained so concerned with accuracy. He argued that his administration is too “active” to keep its spokesmen and women up to speed at all times.
