According to the New York Times, in late August, during Caroline Levitt's last few talks with Trump in the Oval Office, Trump proposed an idea to her in front of a number of senior staff: moving reporters out of the James S. Brady press briefing room, essentially moving the news agency out of the White House. He told Levitt that this incident would be her “last legacy.” Three people familiar with, but not authorized to speak publicly, said the plan never progressed during Levitt's tenure. The President has made this request to her several times over the past few months. Levitt officially stepped down as White House press secretary on August 27. Trump told his staff that he wanted to restore the indoor swimming pool Roosevelt built in 1933. Back then, the pool was built to rehabilitate Roosevelt, who was suffering from polio and had trouble moving his legs; later, Nixon sealed the pool to make room for media use. Journalists with White House interview qualifications work in a small office connected to the briefing room. Compared to Trump's long-standing criticism of journalists, the issue of moving the media out of the White House itself is not a very large issue, but it has strong symbolic significance. The media is close to the core of the US executive power and has long been viewed as an expression of the importance of freedom of the press in a constitutional democratic system.

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