Sean Spicer Suggests Trump Will Largely Do Away With Press Conferences In Favor Of Social Media Posts

In an interview with right wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, incoming White House press secretary and current RNC spokesman Sean Spicer today suggested that Trump will communicate largely through social media instead of traditional press conferences. Via Mediaite:

“Do you expect him to keep up a regular and as energetic a series of press conferences as previous presidents?” Hewitt asked Thursday. “Do you expect him to be more or less engaged than previous presidents with that setting, that formal East Room setting sort of thing?”

“That’s a good question,” responded Spicer, “because I think the thing that you’ve seen with Donald Trump is that he doesn’t look to the past and say ‘I’ve got to conform to these precedents.’ He figures out what’s the best way.”

“And so maybe we do a series of press conferences, but maybe we do some town hall, you know, Facebook town halls. Maybe we go out and solicit input from Twitter. I don’t– the answer is we’re looking at a lot of things,” he continued.