Kayleigh McEnany calls out NYT's Maggie Haberman for 'misleading' tweet quoting her remarks about Donald Trump and Mike Pence's health

Sarah D | 4:08 PM on May 14, 2020

White House press briefings are back on, which means our media have ample opportunity once again to misrepresent what Donald Trump’s press secretary says. The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman took full advantage of that today with Kayleigh McEnany’s remarks on Trump and Mike Pence’s health:

.@PressSec calls for reporters to celebrate instead of just cover in gaggle: “The President's healthy. The Vice President's healthy and I think that's something all reporters should be celebrating and the American people as well."

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 14, 2020

McEnany indeed said that. But for some weird reason, Haberman left out the context:

This tweet by a New York Times reporter is misleading.

I was TWICE asked a hypothetical about the health of the President and Vice President.

Full context of my quote below: https://t.co/Y8LPYYrf95 pic.twitter.com/ee1oXQtxbM

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 14, 2020

Wait … you mean McEnany wasn’t just suggesting that reporters “celebrate instead of cover”?

McEnany’s waving off of concerns about the possibility of Trump and Pence getting sick isn’t the best look, and it’s hard to dispute that she could’ve answered the question better, but Haberman’s pulled quote makes it sound like McEnany just called on reporters to stop asking questions and just be grateful for President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. And that’s not a fair characterization of what McEnany said.