{"id":2657,"date":"2024-11-19T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-time-around-trumps-transition-team-has-a-new-approach-toward-the-media\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:47:42","slug":"this-time-around-trumps-transition-team-has-a-new-approach-toward-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-time-around-trumps-transition-team-has-a-new-approach-toward-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"This time around, Trump’s transition team has a new approach toward the media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As president-elect, Donald Trump has shied away from the media as he releases a stream of Cabinet picks and White House staffers in statements, most posted to his social media platform Truth Social. He has yet to hold a press conference.<\/p>\n

Since the election, Trump has done a handful of one-on-one interviews and delivered public remarks<\/a> at an event at Mar-a-Lago. In an interview Monday with Fox News Digital<\/a>, the president-elect said \u201cin order to make America great again, it is very important, if not vital, to have a free, fair and open media or press.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favoring social media announcements over traditional interactions with the press is not out of the ordinary for Trump, who didn\u2019t host a general news conference until January<\/a> 2017 after winning the presidency in November 2016. And President Joe Biden, whose transition occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic, also did not take wide-ranging questions from reporters during that time \u2014 and didn\u2019t host an official news conference until three months into<\/a> his presidency.<\/p>\n

But it is a departure overall among presidents-elect. Former President Barack Obama took reporters\u2019 questions 18 times during his transition, and former President George W. Bush did 11 times, according to NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It also marks a change in his team\u2019s overall approach to the media from his first transition, when Trump\u2019s team would hold calls with the reporters to give daily updates on the 2016 transition.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Blue Light News, incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said: \u201cPresident Trump has done more interviews and press engagements than any other candidate in the 2024 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As president-elect, Donald Trump has shied away from the media as he releases a stream of Cabinet picks and White House staffers in statements, most posted to his social media platform Truth Social. He has yet to hold a press conference. Since the election, Trump has done a handful of one-on-one interviews and delivered public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}