Trump Floated Kicking Press Out of WH and Replacing Briefing Room With a Swimming Pool — NYT’s Maggie Haberman Reports
Trump has discussed replacing the White House briefing room with a pool, and advisers say he has floated the plan to Karoline Leavitt multiple times.
- On Tuesday, reports confirmed President Donald Trump is actively pushing to convert the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room back into an indoor swimming pool originally installed by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Trump pitched the removal of the media to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during an August Oval Office meeting, telling her the relocation would be her "last legacy," though the suggestion stalled at the time.
- Recently, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte produced a visual mock-up of the proposed pool, and Trump posted images to Truth Social in September comparing the current space to the "FDR Pool."
- White House Communications Director Steven Cheung did not deny the plans on Tuesday, stating "all options remain on the table" and that the administration will make an announcement when appropriate.
- The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is the most likely new home for reporters, as Trump warned The Independent's Andrew Feinberg to "be careful" during a tense Oval Office exchange today.
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Donald Trump has proposed moving journalists out of the White House and turning the James S. Brady Briefing Room back into an indoor swimming pool. The idea was discussed with then-press secretary Caroline Levitt during an Oval Office meeting in August, The New York Times reported. According to three sources familiar with the discussions, Trump has presented the potential change as Levitt’s “final legacy.” The president repeated the proposal in …
The president has commented with his closest advisors that this drastic architectural change would represent his "last legacy" in the presidential residence
In the meantime, he has already ruled out individual media, and now the US President wants to go even further: according to »New York Times«, he is considering shutting down the Briefing Room in the White House – and turning it into a swimming pool.
Donald Trump wants to move the media away from the White House and for months caress the idea of replacing the press room with an indoor pool. (ANSA)
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, weighs turning the current White House press room into a pool and would have declared - in a private meeting - that he wants...
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