Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced Monday she was the latest in the administration to test positive for COVID-19
Reporters reacted strongly Monday after White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she was the latest in the administration to test positive for COVID-19. One CBS News reporter, Ben Tracy, even said he felt “safer” when he was reporting from North Korea than he does at the White House now. CNN’s Jim Acosta pointed out that when McEnany spoke to journalists Sunday, she wasn’t wearing a mask. Kaitlan Collins, who also covers the White House for CNN, tweeted that her network had confirmed Monday that two of McEnany’s deputies in the press department had also tested positive. On air, Collins said that McEnany’s diagnosis “is a sign of how the White House thinks that the rules do not apply to them.
