Donald Trump has held 16 formal press conferences this year, while Hillary Clinton has gone 259 days without allowing the media to have a similar chance to ask her questions.

Clinton's last free-for-all presser was on December 5, 2015 – months before the first voters cast primary election ballots, and long before the FBI turned up the heat on her classified email scandal.

The lopsided press-conference scoreboard has become a consistent whipping boy for the Republican National Committee, which sends daily reminders to its largest media list.

BETTER THINGS TO DO: Hillary Clinton was photographed strolling along a beach in the Hamptons with husband Bill on Tuesday – the 259th day since her last formal press conference

FREE-FOR-ALL: DONALD TRUMP'S 2016 PRESS CONFERENCES Donald Trump has held 16 formal, pre-announced press conferences this year, compared to zero for Hillary Clinton January 16 – Las Vegas, NV January 26 – Marshalltown, IA February 2 – Milford, NH February 15 – Charleston, SC February 25 – Fort Worth, TX March 1 – Palm Beach, FL March 5 – West Palm Beach, FL March 8 – Jupiter, FL March 11 – Palm Beach, FL March 21 – Washington, DC April 17 – Staten Island, NY April 27 – New York, NY May 26 – Bismarck, ND May 31 – New York, NY June 24 – Turnberry, Scotland July 27 – Doral, FL Advertisement

JUST 33 DAYS: Donald Trump last held a press conference on July 27 at his Trump National Doral golf club near Miami

FREE-FOR-ALL: Trump press conferences can be wild affairs, with the often caustic Republican lashing out at reporters for doing investigative work into his past

'Clinton owes the American people explanations on a number of issues,' the RNC's reminder read on Tuesday.

The GOP email listed: '[W]hy she broke ethics agreements regarding foreign donations to her family foundation, why she gave preferential treatment to foundation donors as secretary of state, and why she should be believed that her off-the-books secret server wasn’t designed purely to cover up the shady pay-to-play politics between the State Department and her family foundation.'

'It’s time for Hillary Clinton to hold a press conference. Hillary Clinton has not held a press conference in 269 days.'

PROLIFIC: Donald Trump has held 16 formal pressers this year, including this March 11 event in Palm Beach, Florida where he received the endorsement of former rival Dr. Ben Carson

In the intervening months, there have been three major terror attacks – in Nice, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Orlando, Florida – and the entire Democratic primary process played out.

Reporters who are not in Clinton's tight and friendly orbit also have not had a chance to ask her in a press conference about the FBI's stinging rebuke over her classified emails, or about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' rise to prominence.

She has also not faced press-conference scrutiny about the hacked emails that exposed a plot inside the Democratic National Committee to clear a path for her to win the nomination, or about accusations that her State Department engaged in a 'pay for play' scheme to grant favors to Clinton Foundation donors.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Trump has held pressers at his under-construction hotel in Washington, D.C. (top left) and even on the 9th tee of his Trump Turnberry Resort golf course in Scotland

Trump's press-conference tally was first compiled by NBC News, which put his number of press conferences at 17. One of those, however, consisted of a series of impromptu 'gaggles' for reporters touring a golf course with the GOP nominee in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The billionaire Republican had held a formal, pre-announced press conference a day earlier at his Trump Turnberry golf club on the opposite side of the country.

Trump's last presser was on July 27, a total of 33 days ago. That matches his longest stretch of days this year without holding one.