Opinion: How Trump is like JFK
Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.”New Yorkerof the president’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News arresting—Trump and Hannity supposedly talk off-the-record nearly every night after his show, among other evidence amassed by writer Jane Mayer—but I’m not especially worked up about it.
The media figures Trump talks to informally go beyond his well-documented phone calls with sympathetic commentators like Hannity and Lou Dobbs. His media roster includes regular, if less-publicized engagement with beat reporters and executives at the New York Times, the Washington Post and, on occasion, POLITICO.
These interactions, according to people with firsthand or close secondhand knowledge of them, reflect a keen awareness by Trump of individual personalities in the sea of beat reporters covering him, and a fixation on key figures at powerful news organizations. He’s quizzed some reporters on their romantic lives. He knows what book projects are underway by various Washington reporters, is participating in several of them and soaks up intelligence of what the books are likely to say.
, who has covered four presidents including Trump. At the same time, Baker added, in some ways, he has “the most access to Trump of any president I’ve covered.”, as well as his penchant for answering questions during “pool sprays” . Obama didn’t like doing these but Trump does, Baker noted, adding that these are hardly a good format for asking nuanced questions and don’t substitute for news conferences.
“It’s not that his bark is worse than his bite,” said another reporter who has covered Trump at close range, “He doesn’t really want to bite at all. He wants to be petted.”
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