(He gave an interview to POLITICO’s Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer for a book to be released this spring, and another to POLITICO’s Tim Alberta for one to be released in the summer.) While Trump has kept his distance from the Washington social scene - he rarely goes out except to dinner at his own nearby hotel - he is often current on the gossip that flows in these settings. He knows what book projects are underway by various Washington reporters, is participating in several of them and soaks up intelligence of what the books are likely to say. He’s quizzed some reporters on their romantic lives. These interactions, according to people with firsthand or close secondhand knowledge of them, reflect a keen awareness by Trump of individual personalities in the sea of beat reporters covering him, and a fixation on key figures at powerful news organizations. Some reporters, in background accounts, describe being called by Trump at bars and cable television studios. In some cases, Trump has known journalists - like Maggie Haberman of the New York Times- for many years, giving a natural ease to their relationship, but in several other cases Trump has established a rapport with reporters, such as the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey or Bloomberg’s Jennifer Jacobs, whom he has only come to know after following their work as candidate or president. Phone calls or Oval Office mind-melds in this White House do not happen only as the result of long-standing and sporadically granted interview requests - that is the norm among recent presidents - but also on a more impromptu basis, sometimes initiated by Trump rather than reporters. “It’s not that his bark is worse than his bite.
His media roster includes regular, if less-publicized engagement with beat reporters and executives at the New York Times, the Washington Post and, on occasion, POLITICO. The media figures Trump talks to informally go beyond his well-documented phone calls with sympathetic commentators like Hannity and Lou Dobbs.
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No reason Trump and Hannity should not talk as often as they like.īut my correspondent stumbled onto something important by invoking famed Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee, who died in 2014 and was lionized in last year’s movie “The Post.” He was indeed admired as a giant among several generations of Washington journalists, and as an up-and-comer at Newsweek , he did indeed have a close social relationship with JFK that both boosted and complicated Bradlee’s career. Speaking for myself, not “the media,” I found the level of detail in the New Yorker’s recent examination of the president’s symbiotic relationship with Fox News arresting - Trump and Hannity supposedly talk off-the-record nearly every night after his show, among other evidence amassed by writer Jane Mayer - but I’m not especially worked up about it.
President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.” Why is the mainstream media so agitated about U.S.
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