Jen Psaki: Trump’s Press Availability Is ‘Concerning’ Jen Psaki Says
President Trump talks a lot to the media – that is ‘concerning’ to Biden’s former press secretary, who did not like her boss talking to the press.
The ease with which reporters can reach President Donald Trump is “concerning,” according to Jen Psaki.
“The thing that is challenging, or concerning…is sometimes people, reporters, journalists, talk to a president and then they feel giddy about it,” President Biden’s former press secretary said Sunday on “Pod Save America.”
“They feel like, ‘oh, well I can call Donald Trump and like, I can talk to him, and he gives me all this access,” Psaki said on the podcast hosted by former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer. Psaki is now a host on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC).
“And there’s no way that doesn’t shade how they report things or talk about them, even if it’s not conscious,” she added.
Pfeiffer agreed with Psaki’s criticism of the Republican president.
“There is something that’s uncomfortable with the breathless selfie videos reporters are taking, which is like, ‘I just got off the phone with Trump and here’s what he told me,’ and it’s like, well what’s the context for that,” Pfeiffer said.
Both Pfeiffer and Psaki did say that they held “off the record conversations” with reporters to sway their coverage.
The liberal politicos’ unease at press access makes sense when one considers how much easier Trump is to reach than President Biden.
Through the first eleven months or so of Trump’s second term in office, the president “participated in at least 433 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,” Fox News previously reported.
In contrast, reporters found Biden much harder to reach for comment and direct questioning.
“The president takes questions several times a week,” Psaki said in March 2021, responding to criticism.
“He took questions actually twice yesterday, which is an opportunity for the people covering the White House to ask him about whatever news is happening on any given day,” the former press secretary said.
Yet even CNN had to admit in 2022 that the media generally had an easier time interviewing Trump during his first term in office than it did Biden.
Writing in 2022, Chris Cilizza acknowledged “it’s clear that in terms of overall availability to the media – particularly in more formal settings – Biden is lagging far behind the last two men to hold the presidency.”
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris would often struggle during live interviews and dodge opportunities for long conversations, such as her fateful decision to skip “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
[Featured image from ‘Pod Save America‘]
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Yeah tell us we you want to control the message (and the President) without telling us explicitly you red haired bitch. Once an AWFUL always an AWFUL.
How about you and your little poodle Pfeiffer disappear,
Jen’s stupidity and corrupt nature is “concerning”, especially as she was once a WH spokesliar.
And complaints against the Auto-Pen President?
“The ease with which reporters can reach President Donald Trump is ‘concerning,’ according to Jen Psaki.”
Lefty approach to anything Trump does or does not do. If Trump wasn’t accessible they’d be “concerned” leading them to complain. If he wears a red tie they complain, if he wears a gold tie they complain.
It’s concerning to Ginger Goebbels that Trump doesn’t allow the media hacks like her to shape and twist the narrative as they see fit.
I remember a TV show, I think it was Married With Children, where Kelly Bundy was advising Marcie Rhodes, “You might be able to get away with it if you were young and pretty, but…”
Reporter: Why are you so upset?
Psaki: Because when Trump gives 10 hours availability for every 10 minutes that Biden gave that makes Biden look bad. Not to mention the fact that Trump can actually give answers and doesn’t depend on note cards
Looks tome like her eyes are brown. 🙂
IYKYK
A president should be seen and not heard.
If you think the president being too available to the Press is a problem then you have no respect for the American people.
Last term President Trump would spend a hour right out of Marine One answering questions. He still may do that and she would bitch about it.
In contrast, reporters found Biden much harder to reach for comment and direct questioning.
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Excuse he was busy changing his depends, laying on the. Each , sleeping , or trying to molest young children
leftists are always mentally ill suffering from varying assortments the least of which but soon to be labeled as a real disease so that the ill can get mo gov money
tds
They hate his access because it undemines their ability to make what he said up. Under Biden, they could report anything they wanted because he was never around to refute it. Not only that but he calls out the bad reporters to their faces in front of the other reporters.
Why not compare Trump‘s availability to Obama‘s availability?
With or without the “Bammoprompter?”
One thing that won’t happen with Trump is the Easter Bunny won’t pull him away from the press. Ole Cottontail would get a swift kick in the keister!
Face it, Jen: nobody needs you.
And nobody wants her.
Nobody gives a damn what the inpsufferable and greasy former pspokes-wench, Psaki, has to say about anything under the Sun.
The fact that her little propaganda shindig on MSNOW came in at 118 in the rankings last week, one slot ahead of Jimmy Fallon seems to bear out your claim that no one really cares.
She’s still earning obscenely generous and filthy lucre, though, which is galling.
I think Mark Dice called her Raggedy Ann
Silly me! I came to this story expecting to read that Psaki thought the press didn’t have enough access to Trump!
But I can see where’s she’s coming from. When you’re press secretary for a potato, your view of reality can get skewed. Having not worked for any other POTUS, she probably thinks sleeping late and being constantly led away from the press is normal.
Translation: Trump is wrong if he doesn’t talk to the press and he is just as wrong if he does.
Its like global warming being responsible for more snow.
You did not want Joe getting Press Time because you knew he was a potato and needed to keep it under wraps so it would not become an issue with the citizenry. You lied to the Nation everyday and put the US in a very dangerous position. Russia KNEW Biden was not their and took advantage in attacking Ukraine. That was is on you.
Ginger Goebbels hasn’t changed.
At least she still wears her heart on her hat.
What heart?
This one.
“The thing that is challenging, or concerning…is sometimes people, reporters, journalists, talk to a president and then they feel giddy about it,”
“They feel like, ‘oh, well I can call Donald Trump and like, I can talk to him, and he gives me all this access,” …. “And there’s no way that doesn’t shade how they report things or talk about them, even if it’s not conscious,”
Sounds to me like she’s terrified that this “excessive” media access is going to tend to give journalists a more positive view of the President.
Can’t have that screwing up the “Literally Hitler” narrative, now can we?
If Trump is available the Kool-Aid crowd isnt isolated from the fact and your party can’t continue to gaslight them. Its right out of rules for radicals.
Psaki is pissed off is what. And a tad resentful maybe? All good.
One way it shades things is they know that Trump is a real live thinking person rather than a zombie propped up so that the Dem Cabal can run things under cover.
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