Report: Trump had more exchanges with reporters in first 100 days than 6 predecessors

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump had much predominant exchanges with reporters during his archetypal 100 days successful bureau than immoderate of his six predecessors, a survey has found.

Trump's 129 interactions done quality conferences oregon interviews averaged astir 2 each workday, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, manager of the White House Transition Project. Trump exceeded the gait of his archetypal word successful 2017, erstwhile helium had 89 specified meetings. The survey was released Thursday.

President Bill Clinton was the lone different president to deed triple figures during his archetypal 100 days successful office. Kumar's records day backmost to President Ronald Reagan's archetypal term.

Trump's favored venue is abbreviated question-and-answer league with reporters, 40 of them from the Oval Office. “With regular sum by cablegram networks, peculiarly Fox News and C-SPAN, Trump utilized the mounting to amusement what decisions helium was making and explained the reasons helium took action,” Kumar said successful her report.

Partly arsenic a result, polls bespeak a ample fig of Americans look to cognize what the president is doing, adjacent if they don't needfully hold with it.

The statesmanlike entree comes astatine a clip that the medication is battling with the property connected respective levels. The Associated Press has sued Trump, for example, due to the fact that Trump has blocked its journalists from regular entree to Oval Office oregon Air Force One events. He's seeking to slash national subsidies for nationalist media due to the fact that helium believes NPR of PBS sum is biased successful favour of liberals.

Through property caput Karoline Leavitt, the medication has brought successful much reporters from blimpish quality sources, on with podcasters and influencers.

Trump gave 26 interviews during his archetypal 100 days backmost successful office, Kumar said. Of those, 16 were to Fox News oregon different blimpish quality outlets and podcasters.

By contrast, erstwhile President Joe Biden had 87 newsman interactions during the archetypal 100 days of his administration, successful 2021. Reagan, with 23 exchanges, had the fewest successful 1981, but helium was recovering from an assassination effort overmuch of that time.

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David Bauder writes astir media for the AP. Follow him astatine http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social