There is still no White House television press pool.
The Trump administration has allowed the reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico back into the White House, but the TV cameras have not been turned back on to film the president.
This has to be crushing for Trump’s ego, because he has been hyping the Xi visit to the White House for weeks.
Trump still keeps coming out and trying to speak to the cameras from Steve Bannon’s podcast that are trying to fill in for the TV press pool, but there is still no sound, which means that Donald Trump is screaming into a camera at the top of his lungs, but no one can hear him.
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The entire point of Xi visiting the White House from the Chinese perspective was to get the propaganda of being given the red carpet treatment by Trump, so the White House TV pool not being on hand to film this visit has got the COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF CHINA concerned about press freedom.
According to the written White House pool report, Trump joked to Xi, “President Trump made a joke how the Chinese had the friendliest press corps.”
The Chinese have to be immensely disappointed that they had Trump in the palm of their hands again and the television cameras of the White House TV pool aren’t there to film and distribute it.
None of Trump’s events with Xi have been filmed by the White House TV pool so far today.
