Are we good with presidents not taking questions as the status quo going forward?
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powerful and influential people in the world
Chalk that up to his personality narcissistic disorder.
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Then again, I’m not sure he takes fewer than Bush or obama. Those three like to let the press Secretary handle that stuff.
Under the last guy, of course, press briefings stopped completely.
well from a hostile media the likes of which no president has ever faced - even Nixon.
People have said a lot of untrue things about Trump, but none may be greater than that his press briefings disappeared.
Note that Reagan had - by far - the least.
And note that Trump’s numbers are inflated by those farcical daily covid press conferences that lasted a month or so. He once went almost a year without talking to the press.
So you remember wrong.
Link: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences
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He is only including official, called-in-advance press conferences in the press briefing room. He is excluding the dozens of hour+ Q&A sessions in the rose garden, WH lawn, the hours of questions he answered on the way to Marine 1, etc. No one in recent history, and perhaps ever, answered as many questions as Trump. Trump would let them ask questions until they ran out of them, but they always felt like they should keep asking, so they would start asking ridiculous questions, which was funny to watch.
Chris is being overly technical with definitions to win a technical but misleading point here in the Open.
Chris also complains about press secretary briefings...which Trump didn't need to do, because he dealt with the press so directly, and because he had Twitter. The Left wanted more press briefings because they liked to try to take down the press secretary.
[Edit: I just saw your post below, Baron.]
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We are safe - no power in town, and debris everywhere, but other parts of the state took a much harder hit.
Thanks for the good wishes…others need it a lot more now.
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And they have been rare anyways...if not for unavoidable emergencies impacting his political future effectiveness, they would be extremely rare.
Surely you not trying to imply he didn't let the press question him.
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......we are talking about taking questions. When you get in front of a podium and read from a teleprompter and take no questions or when forced to, then you take questions from specific pre-selected reporters, that is the problem.
Also, sevreal of Biden's pressers came because he absolutely had to, not because he was being accessible.
As I recall, Biden took the longest time to hold a press conference after election of any president.
Biden takes real questions from just one reporter that his handlers tried to avoid - Peter Doocy of Fox. he was blacklisted for a bit, but public coverage of this behavior had enough inpact on his polling that they now take his questions only (for now).
Link: https://thepalmierireport.com/biden-is-setting-records-for-longest-time-in-office-without-a-press-conference/
Should Biden take more questions? Yes.
Did Trump like to take one or two on the way to Marine 1? Sure.
But Trump also liked to call on OAN and Newsmax.
There isn’t a big difference.
Both took more than Reagan.
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You did see that the WH audio was cut off when he responded to an in in invited question, right?
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And, besides, his advisers clearly told him that he wasn't allowed to take any questions! Are you going to argue with the unelected advisers who tell the president when to speak and where to stand and what not to touch?!? Are you, Mr. Fascist?!?
I didn't know it would be this bad. It's like Afghanistan except I wasn't elected. But I do answer questions, so...