When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed reporters on Thursday, she showed them a striking statistic that contrasted the accessibility of former President Joe Biden with that of President Donald Trump.
According to Leavitt, “the president has been answering questions from the press, all of you, almost every day for the past month, sometimes on several occasions in a single day, on any topic any of you wish to talk about.”
She continued, “President Trump immediately set the tone on this approach when he took over 12 times as many questions in his first few hours in office as Joe Biden did in his entire first week.”
The fact that Trump signed a number of executive orders while fielding questions from reporters during his second inauguration on January 20 is one of the most memorable pictures of the event.
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Karoline Leavitt just revealed a shocking statistic.
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 20, 2025
"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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According to an article headlined “Biden’s media evasion” that appeared in Axios in July 2024, the Democrat gave less press conferences and interviews with the media than any of the previous seven presidents at the same stage of their terms. Biden had only completed 164 at that point, whereas Trump had completed 468.
Ronald Reagan (262), and George W. Bush (248), were next lowest.
“The number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31% over the past three months,” according to a Daily Signal story from August 2023. New regulations that were established in May have resulted in 442 fewer reporters having the coveted “hard pass.”
On Thursday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller chastised reporters for failing to pay greater attention to Biden’s seeming lack of interest.
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gives a civics lesson to hyperventilating leftwingers fear mongering out about the cost and waste-cutting work of DOGE.
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Miller responded, “You’re tempting me to say some very harsh things about some of our media friends,” when asked who was in charge of the nation during the Biden administration.
“For four years, many of the people in this room failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and not running the country,” he added.
In the meantime, precisely one month after taking office and despite the swift rollout of his program, President Trump’s approval rating has managed to retain steady and stay in the positive.
“Other polls indicate that Trump’s favorability ratings have declined since his first few days back in office, but the surveys suggest that most Americans approve of the job the president is doing,” Newsweek said, noting that Trump has recorded at least 50 percent approval ratings in three recent surveys.
Trump’s net approval score is +6 points, with 51% of respondents to a SurveyUSA survey of 2,000 individuals saying they approve of his job as president and 45% disagreeing.
The findings show that Trump is more popular in rural areas (59 percent) than in suburban (48 percent) and urban (51 percent) areas when broken down by region.
The survey, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, was conducted by SurveyUSA between February 13 and 16.
“Fifty percent of voters approve of Trump’s job as president, while 47 percent disapprove,” Newsweek reported, citing a separate Morning Consult poll that was also issued on Tuesday.
Furthermore, a recent poll conducted by a Republican polling company showed that Trump continues to enjoy a high level of support.
Trump had a net approval score of +12 points, according to the Napolitan News survey, which was carried out by Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research. His favor rating was 55%, while his disapproval rating was 43%.
