Spicer: ‘Irresponsible’ of Zeke Miller to Report the MLK Bust Had Been Removed

SPICER: "Thank you guys for coming. I know our first official press briefing is going to be on Monday but I wanted to give you a few updates on the President's activities. But before I get to the news of the day, I think I'd like to discuss a little bit of the coverage of the past 24 hours. Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power, and as the President said, 'The transition of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States,' some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting. For all the talk about the proper use of Twitter, two instances yesterday stand out. One was a particularly egregious example in which a reporter falsely tweeted out that the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from Oval Office. After it was pointed out that this was just plain wrong, the reporter casually reported and tweeted out trying to claim that a Secret Service agent must have just been standing in front of it. This was irresponsible and reckless."