"What you're seeing with Maggie Haberman is, you're watching one of the greatest people to ever do this job, giving a maximum effort. Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political analyst for CNN. [7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush". The debate is set for August, in the same city that will host the partys 2024 convention. The publication of Confidence Man reignited controversies over Habermans ethics. In the course of reporting the book, she shared considerable . "And so he will take this chair and say to you, 'This is actually a table.' And Haberman, like Trump, knows how to spin: Confidence Man makes a show of refusing Trumps enticements. It was a story about Mar-a-Lago." Mediagazer Must-read media news.
Maggie Haberman on Donald Trump: "He saw the presidency as the ultimate And, finally, Maggie Haberman, you have said that he may have backed himself into a corner when it comes to whether he's going to run for president again, and, for that reason, he may do it.
She was a fixture on cable news, her face framed by eyeglasses that Trump, who shares her aptitude for pithy description, accused of being "smudged." After Trump rose to political prominence,. He "kind of chuckled" and replied, "It's like therapy. Please check your inbox to confirm. [5] In 1999, the Post assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting. She turned the phone over. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. [19] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president". [20][21] A Guardian review of the book describes her as "the New York Times' Trump whisperer", and describes the book as "much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama.it gives Trump and those close to him plenty of voice and rope. "I'm actually not trying to be funny," Haberman said, correcting them, and, when they continued to laugh, insisting, "Again, I'm not doing a comedy line. [11], According to an analysis by British digital strategist Rob Blackie, Haberman was one of the most commonly followed political writers among Biden administration staff on Twitter. You don't even know where she isshe could be anywhere. ", When I tell Haberman what her colleagues say about her, she shrugs, like she's being complimented for breathing. Three years later, she moved to the Times as it beefed up its political staff in advance of the 2016 campaign. And, early on, he figured out how to neutralize threats by hiring them, as when he lured Anthony Gliedman, the housing commissioner who denied his request for a tax break on Trump Tower, and whom Trump subsequently threatened and sued, to come work for him several years later. "No, that's not all I care about. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. What is he at his core, what does he care about? Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. Haberman was learning the same arthow to "punch through" in a daily news cycle, as New York Times political reporter and frequent collaborator Alexander Burns puts it. How does he see the truth? 1996 - 2023 NewsHour Productions LLC.
Maggie Haberman on Trump: 'He's become a Charles Foster Kane character And laugh at him. But he and Haberman say it reminds them of New York politics; they see Trump's presidency more as a "national mayoraltyit's got that scale, it has that informality," Thrush says. ", Haberman is careful, even in the current free-for-all, to avoid the snide attitude many of the New York intelligentsia have taken toward Trump and his administration. " She's like my psychiatrist . Because otherwise you're just never going to be able to cover him," she says. By Jim Rutenberg, Jo Becker, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin, Matthew Rosenberg and Michael S. Schmidt Published Jan. 31, 2021 Updated June 14, 2022 I don't think he figured the office out. Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political analyst for CNN. A reader wondering whether to be surprised by such carelessness, such corruption, gets her answer: yes and no. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. The media personality Keith Olbermann and the opinion columnist Michael J. Stern, among others, charged her with failing to immediately report vital knowledge uncovered over the course of her book researchmost significantly, that Trump had told aides that he wasnt leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after the election. Yet her emphasis on her own unspecialness feels more canny than sincere, animated by the need to convey that she is immune to Trumps games. "Speak of the devil," she said into the phone. He learned showmanship from the former mayor Ed Koch, the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and the McCarthyite lawyer Roy Cohnwhose singular talent, the book notes, was for emotional terrorism. From the remnants of Brooklyns Democratic machine he extracted lessons about the power that might be gained from pitting ethnic groups against one another. Trump wants what she can give him access toa kind of status he's always craved in a newspaper that, she says, "holds an enormously large place in his imagination." ", And this is the aspect of the job that Haberman tries to focus on in the midst of the storm of distractions his administration provides: holding him to the truth. Haberman once said in an interview that she talked to 50 people a day. "My enduring image of her is, she's standing outside the [press] van, she has a cigarette already lit in one hand, she's lighting a second one because she's forgotten that she has the first one lit, right? But, if he does, what do you think a second Donald Trump presidency term would look like? When Haberman interviewed Trump in the Oval Office this April, he was making his usual complaint about how unfair her coverage is. [14], In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released by WikiLeaks outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic stories in Politico. Maggie Haberman, Author, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America": It's a really good question, Judy. "I have respect for you, sir, but you have called me to thank me about my coverage over the past year and a half at different points," she told him. These words were spoken in 2008 by an unlikely film critic named Donald Trump. I'm having a hard time remembering it." On this week's episode of Jewish Insider 's "Limited Liability Podcast, " hosts Jarrod Bernstein and Rich Goldberg are joined by both actress, producer and author Noa Tishby and New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman. "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. Maggie grew up on the Upper West Side, attending P.S. By Shane Goldmacher,Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman. 75 and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in the Bronx. Maggie Haberman, thank you so much for joining us. She is a native New Yorker, a competitive advantage given her subject. It's obviously not benign. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. Through it all, she never missed a beat in our conversation. He's brought up the moment repeatedly over the past two years, including during Haberman's recent Oval Office interview with him. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. Do you think, at his core, that he is racist? I don't believe that he learned how to be president more astutely. Ad Choices. "Short fiction, always somewhat curiously resembling my own life," she says. She said that this notion is just not realistic: in a climate of partisan absolutism, distrust of the media, and the coarsening of norms, the context around the news itself has shifted. She wrote fiction. Haberman did not let it slide. All Rights Reserved. I just have totems, she said, hoarsely, because her press tour had already begun and she was losing her voice. Like Kane in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Trump was a swaggering .
A revelation in Maggie Haberman's new book stirs debate about reporters Premium Access. And that's going to mean certain situations are fraught. Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? ", Haberman is growing weary of the DC establishment's seeming inability to metabolize the president's personality. Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. "This is a president who is always selling. he asks, uncertainly. She finds the framing of her relationship with the president in romantic terms "facile." Trump is 70.
Maggie Haberman's new book: Trump nearly fired Jared and Ivanka via He's hitting on her. She was the dominant Trump reporter on the campaign, and she didn't travel with him. Part of what makes Haberman one of Trumps foremost contextualizers is her fluency in the worlds that formed him. [2] They have three children and live in Brooklyn.
Trump Might Not See Out 2024 Presidential Bid: Maggie Haberman I was shaped by understanding what sold in a tabloid, Haberman told me. Trump, Haberman writes, was usually selling, saying whatever he had to in order to survive life in ten-minute increments. He was interested primarily in money, dominance, power, bullying, and himself. In Herman Melvilles novel The Confidence-Man, from 1857, the title character is a shapeshifter who remakes himself in the image of others desires. he yelps like a sixth grader sent our way on a dare, and dashes off. She wore an iteration of her usual uniform: black pants, black jacket, reddish-pink blouse, and an air of bone-crushing fatigue. NEW YORK Late one recent afternoon, Maggie Haberman pulled into a parking spot in the lot at Gargiulo's, the old-time Italian restaurant in Coney Island where Donald Trump's father used to . Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. Lately he's gone digital (sort of): He'll write the note on the clip, and then have White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks take a picture of the note and e-mail it to her. Trump is growing visibly with his speech and delivering some adlibs, she wrote on the site, echoing her observation, in Confidence Man, that in the eighties news outlets treated him as if he were born anew with every story. (At one point in our conversation, she told me that he regenerates.) As Trumps political missteps and legal woes pile up, Haberman appears to be relaxing her vigil. Her reporting, much of it written with other Times staffers, mingled Pulitzer-winning discoveries (Trump told Russian officials that firing James Comey relieved great pressure on him), palace intrigue (John Kelly clashed with Corey Lewandowski), and bathetic details (Trump watching television in his bathrobe). She's out with a new book. It was Haberman he dialed. . She was a correspondent for Politico with roots in city tabloids, and while I didn't know much about politics or the media, I knew that when she reported. At first Thrush didn't like her, mistaking her voraciousness for shtick. Trump, having tasted the fairy food of the Oval Office, seems similarly stricken, entranced by power and fame that he is unable to forsake. Greenfield said there are journalists who have been tight with presidents before; he cited Chalmers Roberts, a Washington Post reporter who'd been close to Kennedy and, later in life, admitted he'd compromised himself by giving Kennedy overly favorable coverage. And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. As a woman and a receptacle for liberals disappointed hopes about the capacities of journalism in the MAGA era, Haberman received a tremendous amount of vitriol, Drezner said. Like, floating in the sky.". Lyndon Johnson gave preference to Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Walter Lippmann, and Lippmann had once gone so far as to secretly write part of a speech for Johnsonand then write a story praising the speech.
Trump Tried to Get Maggie Haberman's Phone Records: Politico To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, Among the revelations in the recently released materials from the January 6th committee was an account of a conversation that took place in May, 2022, between the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and the former White House ethics attorney Stefan Passantino.