Spicer just kicked cameras out of press pool room. CNN reporting that the press will be allowed

[anneboleyn]

to report "later" but Spicer and co are refusing to appear on camera. Even CNN is saying this is very unusual. Gee, is the WH trying to control the message? I wonder...

They are of course at Mar-a-Lago so they might be trying to fool anyone who isn't aware that Trump is as usual at his resort -- "working."

[Idoru]

1. Oh, ffs

Take your goddamn meds, Spacey.

[Sanity Claws]

2. I wonder if it has to do with Melissa McCarthy being on SNL tomorrow night.

Trying to avoid giving her material.
If so, he shouldn't bother. She already got a lot of material to work with.

[Wounded Bear]

4. She'll probably come on wearing an Anonymous mask...

[True Dough]

5. Nope

McCarthy won't be hosting SNL until May 13. It's a repeat this weekend. Next weekend's host is Jimmy Fallon.

[More_Cowbell]

14. SNL is new April 8

Louis C.K. is hosting.

[True Dough]

16. I stand corrected

by a DUer whose name implies he/she is a true SNL aficionado.







Thanks!

[IronLionZion]

23. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live

[More_Cowbell]

32. Ha!

Yes. (She!) didn't mean to "correct" so much as "rejoice."

[leftynyc]

17. Nope - new show tomorrow night

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live

[deminks]

3. Not unusual if you have done something illegal.

Or maybe several somethings.

[anneboleyn]

6. I still can't believe the shit these cowards do -- Spicer was yelling for them to take the cameras

out of the room.

[J_William_Ryan]

7. It's not unusual

for a Republican administration hostile to the First Amendment.

[anneboleyn]

11. Lol. CNN was NOT happy. Fox no doubt had some stupid excuse -- Sean is scared of cameras!

[yuiyoshida]

8. Maybe He had a canker sore and refused to wear make up!

after all, he was caught with spinach in his teeth recently!

[CTyankee]

24. i think Melissa will use that...great comic optics!

[louis-t]

28. Oh, a giant spinach leaf hanging out of her mouth

would be great.

[Initech]

9. These incompetent buffoons couldn't lead their way out of a paper bag.

[shraby]

10. I'd guess the clicking of the cameras irritate him, but new cameras don't click so much.

What's his problum as Marissa Tormei said in My Cousin Vinny.

[anneboleyn]

13. Teevee cameras don't click. I think Sean was scared of answering questions live, which tells us

everything we need to know about the "truth" of this strike.

[SaschaHM]

12. THe last thing that you want to do...

is alienate the press after undertaking a military strike.

[Sorceress]

15. This is what I was thinking.

Not a good time for their dodgyness.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. You think they'd want to be basking in the glory of having just bombed an empty air base.

Come on, guys, get with it.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Now, if they can only take Trump's phone from him...

...perfect lockdown

[stillcool]

20. sometimes it's hard...

to get the lies straight.

[yallerdawg]

21. Rachel Maddow has taken to calling the location "The Golf Resort."

Tickles me every time I hear it!

"Southern White House" my big butt!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Technically it's a Beach Resort.

The Golf Course is a couple of miles inland.

But close enough.

[TeamPooka]

30. is it on the beach?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. Yeah.

Mar a Lago means "Lake to Sea."

One side of the property is on the Intercoastal Waterway (i.e. "the lake&quot and the other is on the Atlantic Ocean ("the sea&quot .

I've driven by the place a few times. I get the chills now knowing who is behind it. Although honestly all of the town of Palm Beach is rather creepy.

[Ligyron]

22. Since the Sryians are reportedly using the "destroyed" air base to launch strikes against

civilians again, maybe they're afraid of something?

Then again, maybe it's OK to kill women and children are long as you use regular ordianance.

[Lucinda]

26. I think that is exactly what is happening!

[jfkraus]

25. WH Bress barfing

https://www.facebook.com/superdeluxevideo/videos/444856712525551/

[J_William_Ryan]

29. True courage and resolve

is to refrain from the easy course, such as pointless acts of violence.

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. This is how DU works - the explanation: "Trump wants more pictures, less words in briefings"

comes up as a thread right next to this one: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028909835

And that's the explanation for this: Spicer thinks this briefing will go badly, and he doesn't want Trump to see it. He knows Trump doesn't bother reading things these days, so a briefing without video just won't be brought to Trump's attention, and he won't see it while surfing Fox News, Infowars and Breitbart on the internet.

[SoCalDem]

34. CNN called it "the weekend white house"

Apparently, they are normalizing his going there every weekend

He can control things there better without the prying eyes of media