"I notice you're starting to get much closer together — looks much better, I must say," the president told reporters.
The White House rearranged the seating at a press event Friday to make reporters sit closer together — defying the government's own social distancing guidelines — because staff thought it"looks better," according to the White House Correspondents' Association president. Reporters expressed concern that the White House was putting their health at risk for better optics.
ABC News' Jon Karl, the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, said that when reporters asked for an explanation,"the White House press office told us the decision to move the chairs close together was made because 'It looks better.'" Story continuesMr. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials on the podium did not wear masks or practice social distancing on the podium during the event.
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