Trump Says He May Move White House Press Corps

President Donald Trump said he may move the White House press corps to a different location, while rejecting a report that he planned to restore a historic swimming pool beneath the press briefing room. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the pool would not be brought back but added that he might move reporters to what he called a less obnoxious location. His statement raised the possibility of relocating the press area but did not announce a decision, destination or timetable. The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room occupies the site of an indoor pool built during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. The Nixon administration replaced the pool with the briefing room. Trump’s post disputed the claim that he intended to remove the room and restore the pool, saying he had never considered that step. The New York Times reported that Trump discussed moving briefings outside the room with then-press secretary Karoline Leavitt in August. That account, based on three unnamed sources, said the proposal was not implemented. It also described Trump as expressing a preference for restoring the pool. The reports trace that account to the same reporting, rather than to separate...