Her 31-minute news conference stood in stark contrast to Sean Spicer’s first time before reporters four years earlier. Spicer made the plainly false claim that President Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd was the largest in history, which he later said he regretted.
Psaki’s session was sedate, even boring at times, due at least in part to the newness of the administration.
She promised to make the sessions a weekday routine (“not Saturday and Sunday. I’m not a monster”). The 42-year-old Psaki (pronounced SOCK-eee) was a State Department spokesperson and White House communications director in former President Barack Obama’s administration.
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