Trump torches Biden’s shutout press record — opens floodgates of media access in first year back

SPECIFIC President Donald Trump s return to the White House has brought a surge in media access following the Biden administration with hundreds of direct exchanges between a press corps he frequently blasts as fake news and a president who rarely ducks a question according to particular details on his first year back in office Trump has participated in at least open press events that stretched from official remarks to impromptu gaggles outside of Air Force One to press conferences where the president interacted with the media as of Monday The material compiled by the White House Stenographer s Office and provided to Fox News Digital does not include quick exchanges such as Trump answering a shouted question while greeting a foreign leader at the White House President Trump is the preponderance transparent and accessible President in American history White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston communicated Fox News Digital President Trump takes unrestricted questions from the legacy media and posts directly from his Truth Social account on the bulk central issues facing our nation every single day The American people have never had a more direct and authentic relationship with a president of the United States than they have with President Trump DEMS MEDIA CREDIBILITY IN SHAMBLES AS PRESS FIXATES ON TRUMP MRI AFTER YEARS DOWNPLAYING BIDEN SOUNDNESS ISSUESBy contrast former President Joe Biden's first year in office was mired in frustration that the media was shut out including when he delayed holding his first press conference as president for more than two months into his term In fact Biden s two-month stretch of avoiding a news conference was the longest in a century since President Calvin Coolidge known as Silent Cal according to The Washington Post The White House Stenographer's Office located that it transcribed million words from open press events with Trump as of Monday which is the equivalent to War and Peace books Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone books or The Art of the Deal books the White House stated Specifically Trump participated in press sprays general gaggles press conferences Marine One gaggles gaggles outside Air Force One gaggles while on the presidential plane and three formal press briefings according to the statistics Those press sprays informal media availabilities where the president fields a handful of questions during bilateral meetings executive order signings and roundtables accounted for questions of the questions Trump answered in open press settings A handful of Trump's open press events have been marathons that lasted well over an hour including an October roundtable on Antifa that ran minutes and a series of lengthy Cabinet meetings BIDEN'S 'BIG BOY' NATO NEWS CONFERENCE CARRIES HIGH STAKES AS FIRST PRESSER SINCE DISASTROUS DEBATEThose meetings with Trump's Cabinet chiefs included a -minute session in April a -minute meeting in July a -minute meeting in December and in August the longest televised Cabinet meeting in U S history at minutes Trump is known for not holding back when interacting with the media frequently calling out reporters he believes print fake news and biased content before rolling to the next question during his numerous events His fiery exchanges with reporters have frequently gone viral including when he informed one reporter quiet piggy or another exchange in November where he called a reporter a stupid person when appealed about the suspected murderer of U S National Guard member Spc Sarah Beckstrom KAROLINE LEAVITT SCOLDS NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER FOR UNEQUIVOCALLY FALSE STORY ON TRUMP S POTENTIAL LEVELSTrump's love of general speaking and back-and-forth with reporters set White House stenographers on edge shortly after his inauguration in January as they floated hiring additional staff to keep up with a pace far faster than under the quieter Biden administration Four years ago as came to a close The Associated Press released that Biden held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors as well as fewer media interviews than any latest president Fox News determined that Biden participated in press gaggles press conferences including with foreign leaders and residents events featuring his official remarks such as executive order signings and speeches to federal agencies though those frequently did not include interactions with the media Biden's lack of access came to a head in March as reporters pressed the White House on why the president did not hold a press conference for weeks since his inauguration The president takes questions several times a week then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained the media when pressed about the lack of press access to the president in March He took questions really twice the previous day which is an opportunity for the people covering the White House to ask him about whatever news is happening on any given day Multiple of Biden's appearances in as the pandemic continued were video messages or masses events that did not include taking questions from the press Come on press you gotta go Biden staffers were heard telling the media when the th president would wrap up community remarks BIDEN STILL HASN'T HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE DAYS AND COUNTINGLooking at his full term Biden held press conferences informal question-and-answer sessions and interviews according to the White House Transition Project which tracks presidential transitions and media access The White House Transition Project also tallies how often presidents engage with the press on a daily basis By that measure Trump averaged media exchanges per workday in his first days of his second administration compared to Biden's former President Barack Obama's and former President George W Bush's interactions per workday During Trump's first term his first days in office averaged media interactions per workday With an Average of Press Sessions a Day President Trump in Leads the New Presidential Pack Answering Reporters Queries Not only did President Trump have more press interchanges than his predecessors during his first hundred days but his regularly televised question-and-answer sessions with reporters caught the community s attention the White House Transition Project