Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer offered a snarky explanation as to why President Obama will skip out on today’s event recognizing the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In a Twitter back-and-forth with National Journal’s Ron Fournier and the New York Times’s Jonathan Martin, Pfeiffer said “this whole website thing” took up too much of the president’s schedule to make the trip:
@ron_fournier @jmartNYT @jfsolnet Oh, I don’t know, there’s this whole website thing that someone suggested might destroy the Dem Party
— Dan Pfeiffer (@pfeiffer44) November 19, 2013
Pfeiffer has garnered a reputation for his defensive tone on Twitter, particularly with members of the media.