No, I’m not kidding, see here, they actually tweeted this:

Meanwhile, when it came to Hillary Clinton who actually avoided questions from the press for hundreds of days, set up a private server to avoid FOIA, and deleted thousands of emails, they were just hunky dory with the ‘transparency’ of all that.

Trump isn’t even president yet. Guess who ditched the press in 2008 to go to a waterpark with his daughter in December 2008? You got it, Barack Obama. But apparently that wasn’t an ‘affront’ to transparency, but just evidence that he was a ‘private man’.

From the New York Times on 12/26/08:

In the news-free zone that is Barack Obama’s preinauguration Hawaiian vacation, this passes for a bulletin: The president-elect ditched his “press pool” of media minders to take his daughters to a water park on Friday morning.

In making his dash — with his Secret Service security detail, to be sure — Mr. Obama drew attention both to the seemingly odd but important rituals of the presidential (and prepresidential) bubble and to just how much this very private public man chafes under its constraints.

HT: Twitchy