What It’s Like to Attend a Trump Briefing

Ryan Lizza: “Watching these events on television doesn’t capture how surreal they really are, so on Monday and Thursday, I ventured to the White House to see them up close.”

“There was no line of reporters to enter the White House grounds, as there often is on a day when Trump holds a news conference. Pebble Beach, the row of TV standup locations along the driveway to the West Wing, was eerily quiet. A White House staffer wielding another thermometer greeted me and other reporters as we arrived outside the door to the briefing room.”