"The art of dealing with Trump"

The Jim Acosta Show

Jim Acosta

News, Politics

4.9 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

I traveled to Norway and found an idea for the White House Correspondents Association. The organizers of the SKUP investigative journalism conference invited me to speak about how to cover Trump. The event, complete with an awards gala, should serve as a model for the White House Correspondents Dinner. Forget about inviting Trump and other VIP’s. Just honor good journalism, hand out awards and scholarships. The Norwegians do it every year and it’s a tremendous bonding experience for the nation’s journalists.

And here is the session that opened up the conference that included yours truly. Special thanks to EKKO presenter and host Jeannette Platou and Kristoffer Rønneberg, foreign correspondent for Aftenposten, along with the entire SKUP Norway team for hosting the session. SKUP has kindly shared their video feed of the event.

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0:00.0	Fake news. Fake news. No, no, no, no, no. You're not a very good reporter. They can't toy with me like they
0:05.2	toy with everybody else. It's a very rude introduction. You're organizing. You're attacking our news
0:11.7	organization. Can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? Nobody has the right to go into the
0:16.7	Oval Office and ask the President of the United States questions. That's an invitation that is given.
0:21.6	I said, tariff is my favorite word in the dictionary and I got killed by the fake news.
0:25.6	No clash.
0:26.6	I was there.
0:27.6	You're just a troublemaker.
0:29.6	Who are you with?
0:30.6	Are you with ABC?
0:31.6	No wonder.
0:32.6	Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.
0:35.6	To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news.
0:42.3	And I don't mind that so much.
0:45.3	I don't mind.
0:50.3	The world is trembling right now because of the actions of one man, the president of the United
0:57.0	States. And even if many of us would prefer maybe not to think about Donald Trump all the
1:03.0	time, he still fills our newspapers, our broadcasts, and our podcasts, and our minds all the
1:10.7	time. We're struggling as journalists with a basic question.
1:14.2	How do we cover Trump in a way that's fair, that's informative, without making us and our
1:21.0	audiences crazy? And we at Scoop are excited and we're honored that we have with us here today someone who has more experience the most when it comes to the art of dealing with Trump.
1:35.3	Now, back in 2016, I was on a reporting trip to Cuba, to Havana, to cover the visit by President Obama.
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