President Trump set the tone on this approach immediately when he took more than 12 times the questions in his first few hours in office as Joe Biden did in his entire first week,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
One of the lasting images of Trump\u2019s second inauguration on Jan. 20 was him signing numerous executive orders while answering questions from reporters.<\/p>\n
WATCH:<\/p>\n
In July 2024, Axios published a story titled \u201cBiden\u2019s media evasion,\u201d revealing that the Democrat held fewer press conferences and media interviews than any of the last seven presidents at the same point in their term. At that time, Biden had conducted only 164, compared to Trump\u2019s 468.<\/p>\n
The next lowest were George W. Bush with 248 and Ronald Reagan with 262.<\/p>\n
The Daily Signal<\/a>\u00a0reported in August 2023 that \u201cover the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%. There are now 442 fewer reporters with a coveted \u2018hard pass\u2019\u2014the result of new rules announced in May.\u201d<\/p>\n White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller criticized White House reporters on Thursday for not focusing more on Biden\u2019s apparent disengagement.<\/p>\n WATCH:<\/p>\n ou\u2019re tempting me to say some very harsh things about some of our media friends,\u201d Miller said when asked who was governing the country during the Biden years.<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cIt is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, President Trump\u2019s approval rating has managed to\u00a0hold firm<\/a>\u00a0and remain in the positive exactly one month after taking office and amid a rapid introduction of his agenda.<\/p>\n