During her briefing on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave reporters a powerful statistic that contrasted the accessibility of former President Joe Biden with that of President Donald Trump.
“As you are all aware, the president has been answering questions from the media almost every day for the past month, sometimes several times in a single day, on any subject that any of you would like to discuss,” Leavitt stated.
“When President Trump took more than 12 times as many questions in his first few hours in office as Joe Biden did in his entire first week, he immediately set the tone for this approach,” she continued.
Trump signing a plethora of executive orders while fielding questions from reporters was one of the most memorable aspects of his second inauguration on January 20.
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“President Trump took more than 12 times the questions in his first few hours in office as Joe Biden did in his entire first week.”
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The Democrat attended less press conferences and media interviews than any of the previous seven presidents at the same stage of their terms, according to an article titled “Biden’s media evasion” that Axios published in July 2024. Trump had conducted 468 at that point, while Biden had only conducted 164.
George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan had the next lowest scores (248 and 262, respectively).
In August 2023, The Daily Signal reported that “the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31% over the past three months.” As a result of new regulations that were announced in May, 442 fewer reporters now have the coveted “hard pass.”
Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff for the White House, chastised reporters on Thursday for failing to pay greater attention to Biden’s seeming lack of interest.
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When asked who was in charge of the nation during the Biden years, Miller responded, “You’re tempting me to say some very harsh things about some of our media friends.”
“It’s true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was not running the country and was mentally incompetent,” he added.
In the meantime, despite the swift launch of his agenda and precisely one month after taking office, President Trump’s approval rating has managed to retain steady and stay in the positive.
“The surveys indicate that most Americans approve of the job the president is doing, despite other polls indicating that Trump’s favorability ratings have declined since his first few days back in office,” Newsweek said, noting that Trump has recorded at least 50 percent approval ratings in three recent surveys.
According to a SurveyUSA survey of 2,000 adults, Trump has a net approval score of +6 points, with 51% of respondents approving of his role as president and 45% disapproving.
Regional analysis shows that Trump is more popular in rural areas (59 percent) than in suburban (48 percent) and urban (51 percent) areas.
The SurveyUSA survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points and was conducted between February 13 and February 16.
According to a another Morning Consult poll that was also made public on Tuesday, half of Americans support Trump’s presidency, while the other half oppose it, Newsweek said.
Furthermore, Trump continues to enjoy a high approval rating, according to a recent survey conducted by a Republican polling company.
According to Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research’s Napolitan News survey, Trump has a net approval score of +12 points, with 55 percent of respondents approving him and 43 percent disapproving him, Newsweek noted.