Spicer to attend Newseum forum on Trump’s ‘relationship with the press’

The Newseum is poised to host White House press secretary Sean Spicer, along with a slew of high-profile journalists, for a forum on President Trump and his handling of the media.

“The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days” will “explore the Trump administration’s relationship with the press in the critical first months,” according to the Washington museum.

Some of the participants at the April 12 event include: Fox News’s Bret Baier, The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, Greta Van Susteren of MSNBC, NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, Axios’s Mike Allen, Breitbart News’s Charlie Spiering, The New York Times’s Glenn Thrush, The Associated Press’s Julie Pace and Michael Wolff of The Hollywood Reporter.

{mosads}Former President George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer and former Obama-era communications director Jennifer Palmieri are also confirmed among the guests.

Participants, including Spicer, will “explore pertinent challenges to the First Amendment, a free press, and protecting the free flow of information in a divided nation,” the Newseum said in a news release.

Trump has had an often-hostile relationship with journalists and news organizations throughout his White House bid and into his presidency. He’s called “fake news” the “enemy of the American people” and has said “the fake news media doesn’t tell the truth.”

The Thursday announcement about the Newseum forum came the same day that Trump slammed The New York Times on Twitter and questioned whether to change libel laws:

The failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change libel laws? https://t.co/QIqLgvYLLi

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2017