{"id":40499,"date":"2025-04-01T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40499"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:39:29","slug":"white-house-pranks-journalists-on-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40499","title":{"rendered":"White House pranks journalists on April Fools\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The White House played an April Fools\u2019 Day prank on journalists inside the press room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Around 6 p.m. EDT, the White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers announced over the loudspeaker that there was a \u201cdinner lid until 8:47\u201d p.m., signaling an unexpected later night of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cYou have a dinner lid until 8:47,\u201d Rogers reiterated in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AllisonSchuste\/status\/1907197764234047757\"><u>a video shared online<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;by a colleague. \u201cEnjoy your dinner.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A short time later, she took the speaker again to say \u201cHappy April Fools!\u201d and the room exploded in laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cEnjoy your evening and Happy Liberation Day eve,\u201d Rogers said, pointing to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>President Trump\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>April 2&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5198214-trump-pledges-reciprocal-tariffs\/\"><u>tariff deadline<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It\u2019s standard for members of the White House to play a light prank on its staff or the press pool on April Fools\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In 2021, former first lady&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/jill-biden\/\"><u>Jill Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>dressed up as a flight attendant who wore a black wig and handed out ice cream bars to members of the media from a flight from California to Washington. As second lady, she once crammed her body into an overhead bin on Air Force Two and scared the person attempting to stow their luggage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/5227025-white-house-pranks-journalists-april-fools-day\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House played an April Fools\u2019 Day prank on journalists inside the press room. Around 6 p.m. EDT, the White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers announced over the loudspeaker that there was a \u201cdinner lid until 8:47\u201d p.m., signaling an unexpected later night of work. \u201cYou have a dinner lid until 8:47,\u201d Rogers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32870,3959,26868,2800],"class_list":["post-40499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-april-fools-day","tag-journalists","tag-pranks","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40501,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/40501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}