Opinion: For somebody who publicly professes to despise the press—especially the broadcast journalists who ask him tough questions—President Trump has a knack for elevating journeymen reporters into media stars
to a new network without having first exchanged fire with the caustic president? Impossible. Trump lifted Acosta and Kelly with his truculence and he’s doing the same thing for Fisher, Alexander, Karl, Chambers, Alcindor, or whoever else he ends up feeding to the woodchipper. By roasting Karl at the coronavirus pressers, Trump has given added legs to Karl’s. If Alcindor doesn’t have a book in the works, she will, and a fatter contract with a commercial broadcaster.
What Trump refuses to understand is that punishing reporters for asking direct questions doesn’t deter them, it only encourages them to put sharper points on their questions. It also inspires other reporters to continue to do the same at the briefings. Since moving into the White House, Trump has insisted that his beratements of the press were designed to instill “
“ for the presidency but what he really wants—and he has said it himself—is obedience and “nice,” “congratulatory” questions from reporters. Maybe he could get away with that sort of scripting while taping episodes of his show,, where the cast worked for him. Trump needs to accept that a press briefing is not a reality series. It’s reality.This column has not attempted a complete run-down of every time the president has castigated a reporter.
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