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His speech has not been restricted in any real way. He can call a press conference and communicate with every American within minutes.

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I am not from US, but would like to point you are wrong about that.

He can call a conference, but the press is not obliged to show up.

https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cnn-white-house-press-confe...

And since that in 2017, when they figured they could skip his press conferences, it has becoming more and more normal, if I remember correctly he announced a press conference only some days ago and it was ignored by almost all major media corporations with a few exceptions (Fox for example aired him).

The lack of press coverage of the Trump Administration may also be attributed to the administration reducing the frequency and value of press briefings. This is an article from 2018 and I would put money on it having only gotten worse since.

https://qz.com/1503024/2018-was-the-year-the-white-house-pre...

He can publish video or any content he wants on whitehouse.gov; I'm sure he would get millions of views overnight.

The White House needs to build a healthy relationship with the press.

Why would you expect them to come the moment you want them after blasting them as fake news, and kicking them out when you dislike their questions?

Good for them, no point going to a press conference where a rude orange man just insults you screaming Lügenpresse.

I don't think I'm the only one who switches channels whenever that man is on.

Rightfully so. A free press is at the core of America’s values. Free thinking, free to ask questions, free to investigate. If an administration wants to deny the press, blast them as fakes, ignore their questions, personally attack journalists, then I’m all for those journalists to skip whatever he has to say.

All Trump has to do in order to gain a press audience is pause while walking to his helicopter.

Your link says that one agency (CNN) declined to broadcast one press conference. What about all the other statements and speeches? What about all the other media outlets?

People keep saying this, but how would that work? We've seen major broadcasting networks refuse to air his press conferences before. Aren't most big platforms with the ability to reach "every American" private companies that can do the same?

This is a genuine question - I do not watch a lot of news. Is there a government owned platform that I don't know about? I just looked into CSPAN a bit and it is a private organization, so couldn't they also just decide to not air things?

edit: I am referring to the claim that "He can call a press conference and communicate with every American within minutes." How?

Are presidents entitled to be broadcast on private networks?

You seem to conflate the right to speech with the right to be heard.

No one in America has the latter.

While those might be private companies and therefore not required to air anything from anyone, the same goes for the people that would watch/read it: even if someone were to post something on twitter, nobody is required to then actually read it.

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