Ignore Failing New York Times, Trump Remains Most Accessible, Energetic President in History

In the corporate media’s latest desperate bid to derail President Donald Trump, The New York Times published a shameless hit piece on Wednesday insinuating that the Commander in Chief is showing “signs of fatigue.” But their evidence is as thin as their journalistic integrity (remember when the Times obediently reported that Joe Biden was “healthy and vigorous”?) and the facts say that the famously energetic Trump is still as lively as ever.

The Times alleges that “nearly a year into his second term, Americans see Mr. Trump less than they used to.” Really? The President is a fixture on radio and cable news and takes questions from the media almost daily. Whether on his way to Marine One, aboard Air Force One, or in the Oval Office, Trump is almost always willing to spar with the press. There is no better test of fitness than fielding bad-faith questions from a hostile media, and Trump has passed that test with flying colors.

Even Trump’s critics have been forced to acknowledge that they never have to guess what he is thinking. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, for instance, begrudgingly admitted last month that Trump is more accessible than the “typical” president.

A Politico analysis back in May also found that “Trump 2.0 has done media on 111 of his 138 days back in office — an 80 percent hit rate that includes weekends and must put him on course to being just about the most-accessible president in modern history.” The outlet further stated that Trump has “basically taken questions from all-comers. It’s impressive stuff.”

Compare that to what we just saw with Joe Biden. By June 2024, Biden had done the fewest press conferences and media interviews of any of the last seven presidents, at just 164. The next closest was George W. Bush at 248.

Even more astonishingly, President Trump had nearly as many media interactions as Joe Biden did in his whole presidency in just the first 100 days of his second term. In total, Trump engaged in 129 news conferences or interviews between January 20 and April 30, more than any of his six predecessors – surpassing his own mark from his first term. How’s that for “signs of fatigue”?

According to the National Journal, Trump took a grand total of 1,009 questions during just his first month in office – seven times the 141 questions Joe Biden took during that same period. In just the first three days of his second term, Trump flew past Biden’s total number of questions for his entire first month.

Next, the Times turns to President Trump’s travel schedule to suggest that he is somehow in failing health. “Mr. Trump has fewer public events on his schedule and is traveling domestically much less than he did by this point during his first year in office” – before immediately undercutting that statement by admitting, “although he is taking more foreign trips.”

Perhaps the Times forgets that Trump inherited a world at war from Joe Biden, with America entangled in conflicts around the globe. It is to Trump’s great credit that he immediately set about resolving a half-dozen conflicts – along with securing better trade deals for the United States and bringing investment to America’s shores. Every time Trump left the country, he returned with agreements that would create American jobs and bolster American industry.

As far as the Times’s suggestion that Trump is less active because he’s supposedly not spending as much time in the Oval Office (and even that assertion is shaky at best), the idea that the President can only work from his “official” office space is laughable. Trump famously takes calls from the Executive Residence early in the morning until late in the evening and frequently issues statements via his Truth Social account while not in the Oval. Just because journalists can’t see him doesn’t mean he’s not working.

Finally, and quite predictably, the Times makes a mountain out of the molehill of the bruise that appeared on Trump’s right hand. Despite the very simple and logical explanation that Trump takes aspirin and shakes more hands in a day than the average person does in a year, thus the bruising, the media has continued to breathlessly insist that it is evidence of some debilitating medical condition.

Of course, all of this is nothing new from the journalist class. The Times was the same outlet that infamously questioned Trump’s health for a “halting walk down a ramp” in 2020 – and then uncritically reported that Biden was “100 percent fine” after repeatedly tripping up the steps of Air Force One.

Perhaps the media is self-conscious about their own glaring failure to cover Biden’s cognitive and physical decline. Perhaps they just hate Trump so much that they are trying to wish a health crisis into existence. Regardless, this latest attack on the President is just more reason why the public’s confidence in the mass media has plunged to a new low and shows no signs of recovery.

Shane Harris is Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.