'You’re competing with a helicopter': How Trump pits Marine One against the press
By JM Rieger JM Rieger Video editor for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 12 at 3:08 PM Departing for Marine One on Friday, President Trump repeated a familiar refrain.
It was one of more than a dozen South Lawn exchanges over the past two years in which Trump has cited the noise of a nearby helicopter as a reason to evade or limit reporter questions. And it is a striking pattern in a White House that has held fewer press briefings than the previous two administrations.
“Over the last couple of months I decided, I’ll do a lot [of interviews] — we’ll stop at the helicopter,” Trump said, ironically, at a news conference in November. “And then they say, ‘Why is he doing so many press conferences? What’s wrong?’” But there are more troubling patterns, aside from this disparity: Informal press gaggles are a controlled environment for Trump, where he picks what, if any, questions to answer, often roaming back and forth, silently listening to shouted questions from reporters. “Chaotic exchanges [on the South Lawn] have become the primary way that Mr. Reagan communicates with the press corps these days,” Steven Roberts wrote.
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