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NCS anchor Kaitlan Collins admitted Donald Trump has “embraced” the media in methods other presidents haven’t throughout an interview Monday.
Collins appeared on Jason Tartick’s podcast “Trading Secrets,” the place she mentioned her expertise protecting the White House. Though she has solely lined two presidents in her position as White House correspondent, Collins remarked that even veteran reporters have mentioned Trump modified the media dynamic.
“When you speak to reporters who covered President Obama, he almost never responded to shouted questions,” Collins mentioned. “It wasn’t his thing. He would have his moments with world leaders, and then you would leave the Oval. Trump kind of upended that when he came into the White House. Sometimes presidents are press-averse. Trump embraced the media.”
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President Donald Trump confronted NCS’s Kaitlan Collins a number of instances throughout her time as White House correspondent. (Fox News)
She continued, “He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press and always has long before taking office. Most politicians are not very press-savvy. It kind of depends on who it is.”
Collins mentioned that she’s stored up a “running list” of potential questions for each White House occasion as a result of Trump has been recognized to show nearly any state of affairs right into a “press conference.”
“Trump will swear someone in, and then he’ll turn to you and say, ‘Any questions?’ And he’ll take questions for 45 minutes,” Collins mentioned.
She added that she has additionally personally referred to as Trump previously for a remark, displaying how accessible the president is to the media.
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NCS’s Kaitlan Collins remarked that President Donald Trump is extra accessible than other presidents. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
“I would just call him directly,” Collins mentioned. “I didn’t make a habit out of it, but if there was something huge happening like the day of the Mar-a-Lago raid when the FBI showed up and executed a search warrant over the classified documents. We had heard it was happening. Our people on the ground in Florida were trying to get in touch with law enforcement sources. And it was kind of one of those moments where I was like, ‘We will be best served if I just call him directly and ask if this is true.’ And it was true. And he sent me the statement immediately confirming it.”
Collins and Trump have frequently clashed throughout press conferences, with Trump calling Collins a “low-rated anchor” and remarking “nobody watches NCS anymore.”
Despite his rhetoric, nonetheless, Collins gave credit score to Trump and his group for taking her questions and recalled a second when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended her in the course of the president’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May.
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Kaitlan Collins remembered an occasion when a prime Trump aide defended her whereas in Saudi Arabia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Collins recalled shouting out a query in Saudi Arabia to Trump whereas he was with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and she or he was then admonished by the royal guard that she could not come to the subsequent occasion.
“They were deeply upset that I had asked a question,” she mentioned. “To Karoline Leavitt’s credit, she was like, ‘No, Kaitlan’s coming in with the rest of the U.S. press.’ And so, I went into the next event. But I think things like that, you can disagree about questions and briefings and whatnot. Press access is key and every administration, I think, should protect that.”
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