cycle that way. he sees twitter as kind of a mini press release type of thing. and it s a way for him to control the narrative without ever having to address the press if he doesn t want to. he s the only president-elect in american times that hasn t held a press conference during the transition period. we ll see if he does, next month. it s interesting, too. i try to think about how the press handles these tweets. sometimes they ll be loaded up with information that s just not factually accurate and the press will correct them, then this whole debate ensues. are you giving it more attention by pointing it out in the first place? i know there are people out there who say, hey, the press is being hypocritical on this. here s a guy giving you knee-jerk, often sort of emotional reactions and then the press says, how dare he do this! give us a formal give us a statement, give us a bland, you know, statement. how should the press be handling this? i think trump has changed the game in
for more on trump s christmas we tweet, i m joined bour roundtable, amy choezik with the new york time ozzie and caitlin hughey burns with real clear politics. so caitlin, take me through this, you heard sean spicer giving a sort of defense about why donald trump loves twurt, what the sort of upside of it is. but i also remember the last week, two weeks to have the campaign, his people actually got the phone away from him, he wasn t tweeting. it feels like those were the two best weeks he had politically. he won the election. what i see the twitter strategy being, though, is not necessarily speaking directly to his supporters or to the american people, because most people are not on twitter. it s really to speak to reporters and have it disseminated through a kind of kind of drive the news cycle that way. he sees twitter as kind of a mini press release type of