White House Reporters Reflect On 4 Years As 'Enemies Of The People'
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🗓️ 11 December 2020
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Summary
"I do it to discredit you all and demean you all," he admitted to her in 2017, "so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you."
Trump made attacks on the press a central fixture of his campaign for president, and of his four years in the White House. As his term comes to a close, three members of the White House Press Corps reflect on what it's been like to cover the 45th president since the beginning.
NPR's Tamara Keith, Jeff Mason of Reuters, and Yamiche Alcindor of the PBS NewsHour spoke to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
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| 0:00.0 | A little more than four years ago, Donald Trump sat down for his very first interview |
| 0:05.0 | as president-elect. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, congratulations, Mr. Trump. |
| 0:09.0 | Your president-elect. |
| 0:10.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:11.0 | How surprised were you? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, I really felt we were doing well. |
| 0:15.0 | The interview was with CBS journalist Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes, who pressed Trump on |
| 0:21.0 | his campaign promises, whether he would separate his business interests from his new job, |
| 0:26.1 | and what he and then president Obama discussed when they met at the White House for the |
| 0:31.1 | very first time. |
| 0:32.1 | You looked pretty sober sitting there in the Oval Office. |
| 0:37.1 | Did something wash over you? |
| 0:39.1 | Well, I think I'm a sober person. |
| 0:41.1 | I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. |
| 0:45.1 | In my case, a little bit of a wild man, I'm not. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm actually not. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm a very sober person. |
| 0:54.1 | Of course, during his campaign for president, Trump often took a different tone, especially |
| 0:59.1 | when it came to the press. |
| 1:01.1 | Most of it, 70%, 75%, is absolute dishonest, absolute scum. |
| 1:07.1 | Remember that scum. |
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