President Obama Makes This Stunning Statement About The Media At The Start of His Press Conference

By Jay Caruso | 3:14 PM on January 18, 2017

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When we look back on President Obama’s eight-year tenure, one of the things we will remember is how the press treated him. They didn’t just treat him with kid gloves. It’s as if the press (with a few exceptions) wore gigantic oven mitts when dealing with the President.

So that is why it was stunning (and hilarious) the President made the following statement just before his press conference officially started:

"You are not supposed to be sycophants, you are supposed to be skeptics," says @POTUS to @WhiteHouse press. pic.twitter.com/EU9wyuj6z8

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 18, 2017

When you get through laughing, you can go back to the real world, knowing what Obama said is the complete opposite of how the media treated him while he was President.