White House Welcomes ‘Special Guest’ To The Briefing Room (VIDEO)

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The White House on Thursday welcomed a “special guest” to the briefing podium: a video recording of President Donald Trump.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders opened the briefing by responding to news that the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday passed 25,000 for the first time.

“The President’s economic agenda of lower taxes, less regulation and more opportunity for all is already paying off,” she said. “With that in mind, we have a message from a special guest that I’d like to share with you that I’ll ask you to tune into the screens and then I’ll continue from there.”

“Thank you for being with us today,” Trump said in what appeared to be a video recording played on two large screens in the briefing room.

He did not take questions.

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  1. Avatar for jwbuho jwbuho says:

    Wait. What you posted–that was the whole thing from Trump?

  2. Expect more of Two Scoops reading from TelePrompter scripts written by others, thereby avoiding any nattering-nabob questions from the media. A blatant attempt to cover-up his failing, Alzheimer’s driven verbal shortcomings. That and being a major Dorkasaurus as well!

  3. Yeah, sure. How do we know this wasn’t really the “audioanimatronic” version from Disney? Oh, and by the way…

    Correlation does not imply causation

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    History repeats… first as tragedy, then as farce.

  5. I wonder how many takes and edits it took before they got a film they could release without any mental lapses or angry tirades.

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