Trump chastises reporters after scrum in Oval Office
President Trump blasted the media yet again Friday as photographers got a bit rowdy fighting for a good spot in the Oval Office.
They were jostling for space during a meeting with South Korean president Moon Jae-in.
"Fellas, easy," Trump warned, stretching his hands out as the pack encircled him. "You guys are getting worse."
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Furniture was knocked around with all the pushing and shoving and at one point Trump's bodyguard-turned-White House aide Keith Schiller had to catch a lamp from falling onto Trump.
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It was a hectic scene with the American and South Korean press vying for space to cover the two presidents.
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A pool report circulating on Twitter after the event noted that Trump told Moon this group was "friendly" and "don't let them get you."
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Of course the press might have been a bit overeager to actually be in the room with the president given the recent limited opportunities for access -- and the administration's famously hostile and combative stance against the media.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
