It took President Donald Trump just a few hours in office to take more questions from the press than former President Joe Biden took in his entire first week, according to a Daily Caller analysis.
In Biden’s first week in office — from Jan. 20, 2021 through Jan. 26, 2021 — the then-77-year-old took just six questions from the White House press corps, according to White House pool reports. Some of these questions were answered with just one word.
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One of Biden’s wordiest answers in his first week came in response to a question about his Covid-19 vaccination goals: “When I announced it, you all said it’s not possible. Come on, give me a break, man,” Biden snapped.
Comparatively, the Daily Caller’s analysis shows that Trump surpassed that number just several hours after being sworn in as he took 75 total questions and follow-ups over a 48-minute period in the Oval Office while signing executive orders.
Trump, 78-years-old, took questions from the press 11 times, often for extended periods of time, throughout his first week.
Biden took questions 51 times during his first three months in office and interacted with the press a total of 164 times over his first year in office. Based on his interactions with the media during his first week, Trump is on pace to easily surpass both Biden’s three-month and one-year benchmark.
Though Biden interacted frequently with the press during his first three months, he often only took one or two questions at a time. The former president held his first press conference on March 25, taking 10 questions for an hour and two minutes. The reporters called on during that presser appeared to be pre-selected by the White House, as Biden read out the name of reporters meant to ask questions from a cheat sheet on his dais. Though Trump is yet to hold a “formal” press conference in his second term, he has used several opportunities to host extended question-and-answer sessions with members of the media.
On his first day in office, Trump engaged in back-and-forth with the press while signing a batch of executive orders. The following day, after announcing a new AI infrastructure deal, the president took questions for 29 minutes. The questions spanned a variety of topics, including the Russia-Ukraine war, his Jan. 6 pardons, potential TikTok deals and the safety of his inauguration.
Trump had no list of pre-selected reporters during any of his interactions with the press, instead calling on individuals of his choosing.
While Trump did not make any public appearances on Wednesday, the third day of his second term, he did do his first sit-down interview of his presidency with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Biden’s first sit-down interview didn’t happen until March 16, 2021 when he was interviewed by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. The former president did another sit-down with then-ESPN host Sage Steele a couple weeks later. Steele later revealed that all of the questions were written by executives at the network and that she was warned not to “deviate from the script.”
Trump went back to publicly signing executive orders on Thursday, calling in the press and taking questions for 21 minutes. Friday was the president’s most active day of his presidency so far as he traveled to North Carolina to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene and California to visit areas affected by wildfires. Trump took questions from the press five times.
On Saturday, Trump visited the press cabin on Air Force One, something Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich says Biden did only once during his presidency.
“You’re getting a little bit more access to your president than you did the last one …. By about 5000 percent,” Trump cheekily told reporters.
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The only time Trump did not interact with the press was on Sunday while he was in Miami, though he hopped on TruthSocial in the middle of a round of golf to publicly negotiate with Colombia about deportation flights.
While Trump was taking questions throughout the weekend, his staffers were making themselves available too. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt first briefed the press on Wednesday on the North Lawn following an interview with Fox News and then took questions from the press on Friday during an Air Force One flight.
“This president has done more in 100 hours than his predecessor Biden did in the first 100 days,” Leavitt told reporters on Air Force One.
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