(Reuters)White House press secretary Sean Spicer had a message for the news media at a briefing Tuesday: You guys caused the confusion about the Trump administration's new temporary travel ban ... by calling it a travel “ban.”“It's not a ban,” Spicer said. When the tweet above was pointed out at Tuesday's briefing, Spicer insisted Trump was just “using the words that the media is using." If it's so wrong to call this a travel “ban,” the White House's three leading public messengers should know not to call it that. If avoiding the word “ban” was the strategy, he wouldn't have used it Monday. And we would have seen pushback on its use earlier than five days after the ban was enacted.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2017 19:36 UTC