President #Trump and his media team are aiming to make it easier to “exact punishment” on journalists by taking control of the seating chart in the White House press briefing room, the White House Correspondents’ Association warned on Monday. The complaint follows an Axios report that the Trump Administration is looking to take the responsibility of assigning seats away from the #WHCA, which has decided where reporters sit in the press briefing room since 1981. The move would come after the Trump Administration already took one responsibility away from the WHCA in February — assigning which reporters are part of the White House press pool. On Monday, the WHCA said another encroachment by the Trump Administration on its responsibilities would further damage the relationship it has with the White House. 🔗 link in bio for more on this story.