Trump bucks White House tradition by skipping end-of-year presser

[DonViejo]

by Brian Stelter @brianstelter

December 22, 2017: 5:35 PM ET

President Trump's year of flouting presidential traditions and trashing the media isn't quite over yet.

Trump left the White House on Friday without holding an end-of-the-year press conference.

While it's by no means a requirement to do so, most presidents in modern times have chosen to hold a formal news conference in December to tout accomplishments and share seasons greetings before Christmas.

This is the first time in 15 years that a president has opted not to.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reported that Trump "wanted to hold a news conference, but aides prevailed on him not to."

Link to tweet

more
http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/22/media/president-trump-no-press-conference/index.html

[Achilleaze]

1. The republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief now dodges his responsibility

to answer questions put to him by the free press representing the American public.

Disgraceful. Cowardly. Unfit for service.

[Thrill]

2. Pussy

[Yonnie3]

3. "rump wanted to hold a news conference"

I smell BS.

Perhaps he wanted to hold a news conference and "tell them a thing or two," and aides talked him out of it.

I don't think it is a big deal. He can't finish a sentence, so what could possibly have been said that was worth anyone's time or bandwidth?

[underpants]

4. He also sign the tax scam in private

Very unlike him to not leave the image of him in the Oval Office for everyone to see before he goes to Florida.

[MFM008]

5. Coward

Didn't want any difficult questions.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Screw him.

Let him do his victory lap all by himself.

Actually, I hope he wakes up Christmas morning and finds Sarah Huckabee Sanders naked beside him instead of a horse's head.

I don't want to hear him spew his crap in front of the cameras, anyway.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Who cares

He'd stand there lying through his teeth,
telling us how great he is,
and calling the press liars.

I saw an article on a right wing site yesterday saying
Trump has had the most successful first year of any President since Reagan.