White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday defended the administration’s unconventional briefing methods at an off-camera meeting with reporters who expressed frustration over a lack of access to the president.

Rather than hold a traditional televised Q&A with reporters, Spicer briefed the media off-camera at the White House. That angered some in the press, who also expressed frustration that there had been no sightings of the president on a day when he had signed a highly anticipated executive order.

“Will we be hearing from the president this week since we didn’t today?” one reporter asked.

“I’m sure at some point we’ll do something ... a photo spray,” Spicer responded. “We have a pretty good track record of making the president available to folks.”

“It’s unusual,” the reporter shot back. Photo sprays typically allow journalists a brief window of time to photograph public figures.

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“Everything is closed. Normally they have a photo spray or something,” American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan said.

“Don’t give me this ‘normally we do,’ ” Spicer shot back. “I made it very clear at the beginning of this April that we’d have some things on camera, some things off. Last week, the president traveled two days, he had the [speech before the] joint session [of Congress]. We briefed every day.”

“It’s not about us; it’s about the American public seeing their president,” Ryan responded.

The administration has long said it will look for new ways of engaging with the press, including more informal press meetings that are not widely broadcast.

Spicer last held an on-camera briefing with the press last Monday.

It’s the latest flashpoint in the feud between the media and the Trump administration.

Last month, the White House infuriated many in the press when Spicer invited only a select few outlets to an informal meeting in his West Wing office in lieu of a comprehensive briefing with reporters from all the mainstream national outlets.

While Spicer has not had a televised briefing in a week, he argued that such off-camera gatherings are more appropriate when the president is traveling or about to give a big speech, as happened last week.

“This is a president when it comes to accessibility and allowing the press access, I’ve heard from several of you [that] we’ve gone above and beyond allowing the press into events into sprays, we’ve had greater access,” Spicer said.

Trump’s absence from the spotlight on a day when he was signing an executive order should not be an issue, Spicer argued, because the administration rolled out the Cabinet secretaries from the relevant agencies to answer questions.

“This president has been extremely transparent, extremely accessible,” Spicer added. “He signed an executive order this morning that we then put all three Cabinet secretaries relevant to get this out."

"I made it very clear from the beginning we’d have a briefing every day," he continued. "We’ve gaggled every day and made ourselves available to you, so with all due respect, that’s not a very accurate assessment of how we’ve been acting.”