No White House press secretary has held a daily briefing since March and that probably won't change soon, as President Donald Trump is his "own best spokesperson," Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said Monday.
"He's the most accessible president in history, as all of the media knows," Grisham, who now is also the White House communications director and continues as the spokesperson for first lady Melania Trump, told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
She pointed out that on Sunday, Trump "gaggled two or three" times with the press. The president talks almost daily with reporters while on his way to board Marine One on the South Lawn.
Grisham told Fox News that the daily briefings had become "a lot of theater," and that there were reporters who were taking advantage to become famous.
"They're writing books now," she said. "They're all getting famous off of this presidency, and so I think it's great what we're doing now."
Both CNN's Jim Acosta and April Ryan, of the National Urban Network, have written books about their sparring with former press secretaries Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders.
"Ultimately, if it's something the president decides we should do, we can do that," Grisham said of returning to the daily briefings. "Right now, he is doing just fine."
Trump also saw how Sanders and Spicer had been treated by the media, said Grisham, and it's important that a spokesperson for the president be able to speak to his policies.
"I think the president saw that's not what was happening," said Grisham. "It had become again theater, and they weren't being good to his people. He doesn't like that. He is very loyal to his people and he put a stop to it."
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