The End of Presidential Press Conferences
Who likes solo presidential news conferences? Show of hands?
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesIt's hardly surprising that White House correspondents are getting antsy at events as festive as Monday's Easter Egg Roll. President Donald Trump is far from approaching even Ronald Reagan's low standard for holding solo press conferences, the grandest display of engagement between our chief executive and the fourth estate.
Reagan only held 46 of them during his eight years, which was the record lowest pace during the era in which we have statistics (going back to Calvin Coolidge).1522792691188 Trump's only held one in more than 15 months in office. He's held a healthy number of combined press conferences with a foreign leaders -- 21 -- although he's fallen behind that pace this year.1522699826282