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[dirtydaveiii]

That's a press briefing from the White House.
That's not Trump going and doing press conferences.
Those are separate things.

White House revokes press passes for dozens of journalists

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the White House revoked the press passes of a significant chunk of the Washington press corps because they didn’t meet a new standard, according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Under the new rules, rolled out earlier this year, in order to...

www.cjr.org

 

[Butler1000]

Trump hasn't done one since February.
If you think these are required to show you are up to the job, surely you must be demanding that Trump do an unscripted 90 minute press conference to show he is capable.

Sure!

Point bring it's the Presidents job to be available in the modern era. He isn't. Trump isn't the President, us he? Just a private citizen.

Stop deflecting to Trump. Biden is in the wrong. He has cognitive decline. It's not going to work. The press us no longer going to give him a pass. Nor will the public.

 

[Butler1000]

It nonetheless seems inconsistent with the claim that Trump always faced the press.

Not only on official pressers, but walking to the chopper he would stop. And answer questions. Cripes it was a regular Trumpalooza for the press. He was so good for ratings. He always wants coverage.

The gaslighting is amazing.

 

[Butler1000]

White House revokes press passes for dozens of journalists

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the White House revoked the press passes of a significant chunk of the Washington press corps because they didn’t meet a new standard, according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. Under the new rules, rolled out earlier this year, in order to...

www.cjr.org

Looks like covid rules judging from the date. And a biased source.

 

[dirtydaveiii]

Looks like covid rules judging from the date. And a biased source.

The story was from 2019 but don't let thet stop your lies

 

[Valcazar]

Not only on official pressers, but walking to the chopper he would stop. And answer questions. Cripes it was a regular Trumpalooza for the press. He was so good for ratings. He always wants coverage.

The gaslighting is amazing.

But "Chopper Talk" isn't a 90-minute press conference like you want.
It's answering whichever questions he felt like and then wandering away.

That doesn't meet your standard of what a president has to do to show he is competent.

 

[Valcazar]

Sure!

Point bring it's the Presidents job to be available in the modern era. He isn't. Trump isn't the President, us he? Just a private citizen.

Stop deflecting to Trump. Biden is in the wrong. He has cognitive decline. It's not going to work. The press us no longer going to give him a pass. Nor will the public.

There are - and have been for quite some time - significant worries about Trump's cognitive decline.
If you actually think cognitive decline is an issue, you would be all over Trump needing to prove himself here.

Look at how the press and the campaign has covered for Trump since the debate.
No coverage of his deranged rallies where he keeps shorting out and garbling words and staring off blankly.
No coverage of his tweets, divorced from reality as they are.

Why are the press covering for him?

He could go out immediately and do 90 minutes unscripted with real questions from reporters and put to rest all these questions.
But he doesn't.

When was the last time he did a one-on-one interview with a reporter that wasn't heavily edited?
When did he last do a press conference?

Why is Donald Trump being so carefully stage managed by his campaign and advisors?

 

[The Oracle]

But "Chopper Talk" isn't a 90-minute press conference like you want.
It's answering whichever questions he felt like and then wandering away.

That doesn't meet your standard of what a president has to do to show he is competent.

The ''Chopper Talk'' was completely random...He'd just wing it and say the craziest stuff. He liked the optics.

You think for a moment Biden would dare to do that?

 

[Valcazar]

The ''Chopper Talk'' was completely random...He'd just wing it and say the craziest stuff. He liked the optics.

You think for a moment Biden would dare to do that?

Biden has done that hundreds of times over his term. (Not always at choppers.)
There are people who track these things.

As many as Trump? Of course not, Trump LOVES the press and being on camera a lot more than Biden does.

 

[The Oracle]

Biden has done that hundreds of times over his term. (Not always at choppers.)
There are people who track these things.

As many as Trump? Of course not, Trump LOVES the press and being on camera a lot more than Biden does.

Can't believe I'm quoting the NYT here. I love the line about Trump saying '' he once used a news conference to suggest that people inject bleach into their bodies. ''...Which he never said. In true NYT fashion they can't help their TDS.

Anyhoo as biased as NYT is here is what pertains to this thread. They're really critical of Biden's time he has spent being ''transparent'' with the press.

''

According to The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mr. Biden averaged 10 news conferences per year during his first two years in office, including 11 solo sessions and nine with foreign leaders. Mr. Trump averaged 19.5 during that same period. Mr. Obama averaged 23, and Mr. Clinton averaged 41.5. Herbert Hoover averaged 82 news conferences, while Mr. Coolidge held an average of 90 each year.

Mr. Nixon and Mr. Reagan both averaged seven news conferences in their first two years, though Mr. Reagan’s average was cut short by the assassination attempt in March of his first year in office.
The comparisons are similar when it comes to interviews, according to a tally by Martha Joynt Kumar, a longtime scholar of presidential communication. Compared with Mr. Biden’s 54 interviews as of December (which include the ones with celebrities), Mr. Trump gave 202, Mr. Obama gave 275, Mr. Bush gave 89, Mr. Clinton gave 132, George H.W. Bush gave 96, and Mr. Reagan gave 106 — all during the first two years of their presidencies''

Biden Has Held the Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan. Any Questions? (Published 2023)

As President Biden prepares to announce his bid for a second term as soon as Tuesday, his decision to keep the news media at arm’s length is part of a deliberate strategy.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Butler1000]

There are - and have been for quite some time - significant worries about Trump's cognitive decline.
If you actually think cognitive decline is an issue, you would be all over Trump needing to prove himself here.

Look at how the press and the campaign has covered for Trump since the debate.
No coverage of his deranged rallies where he keeps shorting out and garbling words and staring off blankly.
No coverage of his tweets, divorced from reality as they are.

Why are the press covering for him?

He could go out immediately and do 90 minutes unscripted with real questions from reporters and put to rest all these questions.
But he doesn't.

When was the last time he did a one-on-one interview with a reporter that wasn't heavily edited?
When did he last do a press conference?

Why is Donald Trump being so carefully stage managed by his campaign and advisors?

Cripes, that's just a piss poor trolling attempt, or you have gone down the weirdo rabbit hole.

 

[Frankfooter]

Cripes, that's just a piss poor trolling attempt, or you have gone down the weirdo rabbit hole.

His last few rallies have been totally wacko, rambling old man, events.
Mumbling about sharks and electrocutions, hannibal lector and totally random crap.

 

[The Oracle]

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[Valcazar]

Can't believe I'm quoting the NYT here. I love the line about Trump saying '' he once used a news conference to suggest that people inject bleach into their bodies. ''...Which he never said. In true NYT fashion they can't help their TDS.

Anyhoo as biased as NYT is here is what pertains to this thread. They're really critical of Biden's time he has spent being ''transparent'' with the press.

The NYTimes is the NYTimes.

According to The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mr. Biden averaged 10 news conferences per year during his first two years in office, including 11 solo sessions and nine with foreign leaders. Mr. Trump averaged 19.5 during that same period. Mr. Obama averaged 23, and Mr. Clinton averaged 41.5. Herbert Hoover averaged 82 news conferences, while Mr. Coolidge held an average of 90 each year.

Yes. Notice how careful they are in their wording.

They break out Biden's solo vs joint conferences but then don't do that for the others.

Luckily, they are a public website (where do you think I got my earlier numbers)?

Presidential News Conferences | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

As you can see, in the first two years of office, Biden did 11 solo conferences and Trump did only 6.
That's why they didn't break it out.
Trump did do many more joint press conferences, where he had more cover and the questions aren't only at him.

In fact, that site did a whole piece in March on Biden's solo conferences.

Biden's Solo News Conferences in Perspective | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

If you look at the first three years (that NY Times article is old) then you see it becomes 14 to 9 solo conferences in favor of Biden.
It is only in the last year of his presidency when Trump was giving conferences about COVID and also using the press conferences to campaign, that suddenly Trump's numbers spike up.

Like I said, The NYTimes is the NYTimes.
They weren't going to write the story in a way that didn't "raise questions" about Biden.

Mr. Nixon and Mr. Reagan both averaged seven news conferences in their first two years, though Mr. Reagan’s average was cut short by the assassination attempt in March of his first year in office.
The comparisons are similar when it comes to interviews, according to a tally by Martha Joynt Kumar, a longtime scholar of presidential communication. Compared with Mr. Biden’s 54 interviews as of December (which include the ones with celebrities), Mr. Trump gave 202, Mr. Obama gave 275, Mr. Bush gave 89, Mr. Clinton gave 132, George H.W. Bush gave 96, and Mr. Reagan gave 106 — all during the first two years of their presidencies''

Biden Has Held the Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan. Any Questions? (Published 2023)

As President Biden prepares to announce his bid for a second term as soon as Tuesday, his decision to keep the news media at arm’s length is part of a deliberate strategy.

www.nytimes.com

The interviews thing is different of course.
Trump absolutely loved those "Just let Trump ramble and ask softball questions" interviews.

Remember how he used to just call into Fox and Friends and blather on with them for an hour because he didn't actually thing being President meant governing?[/QUOTE]

 

[Valcazar]

Cripes, that's just a piss poor trolling attempt, or you have gone down the weirdo rabbit hole.

It's just pointing out how easy it is to construct a narrative out of the facts.
Now think about which ones are being constructed and which aren't.

 

[Insidious Von]

The King of Kings is America's Socrates.

All of a sudden, Gavin Newsom isn't the front runner to replace President Biden...didn't MAGAS attempt to kidnap her?

 

[Insidious Von]

Btw Toronto money is building the Gordie Howe Bridge.

Has Bill Maher become tiresome?

 

[mandrill]

Sure!

Point bring it's the Presidents job to be available in the modern era. He isn't. Trump isn't the President, us he? Just a private citizen.

Stop deflecting to Trump. Biden is in the wrong. He has cognitive decline. It's not going to work. The press us no longer going to give him a pass. Nor will the public.

That isn't what Valcazar was writing. But nice try at deflecting.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Btw Toronto money is building the Gordie Howe Bridge.

Has Bill Maher become tiresome?

Always was somewhat. But on point and relevant.

 

[Butler1000]

It's just pointing out how easy it is to construct a narrative out of the facts.
Now think about which ones are being constructed and which aren't.

So facts don't matter?