That must have been a long time ago. In interviews, she has often invoked the childrens book Harold and the Purple Crayon to illustrate Trumps peculiar blurring of fact and fantasy. "Can I join you guys? The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. When Trump gave an undisciplined press conference a few weeks into his presidency, the DC press and pols were comparing it to late-stage Nixon, Thrush says. I mean, does he just create a different factual universe? The tabloid playbook, which Haberman memorized and which Trump enacted, reflected a sense that journalists and subjects could feed off one another, that the whole enterprise might be boiled down to eyes and, eventually, wallets. Maggie parries, her face inscrutable. Or is she simply good at her joba job that requires her, at times, to win the trust of the untrustworthy? It would look like him. I do not want you to come away with that impression. Haberman says her mirth had to do with the ridiculousness of talking momentum so early in the campaign; Trump took it as her mocking his chances of winning the Republican nomination. Perhaps he glimpsed himself as if in a mirror. Because he is the same person he was during the campaign.". I'm having a hard time remembering it." However, contrary to the hopes of her campaign, subsequent stories by Haberman about Clinton were much more critical of her than they had hoped for. "In the beginning, you're going to a lot of crime scenes. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 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. The tale concerns a boy named Harold who goes for a walk in the evening and draws things from his imagination, including an entire city, with his enchanted crayon. ", 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 never hedges her angle to try to protect her access, only to give politicians an unwelcome surprise when they read the story in the morninga practice some journalists follow that Haberman calls "the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. Washington, D.C.,s power players, a wider swath of whom than wishes to admit it has Habermans number saved, grew habituated to her presence, if not exactly thrilled by it. By Kenneth P. Vogel,Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt. But his campaign is preparing for an ugly, protracted primary fight for the nomination. Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. Haberman did not let it slide. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. This article appears in the July 2017 issue of ELLE.. She said that she had never approved of anything Trump had doneevaluating him is not her job. During the Trump Presidency, Habermans output and name recognition placed her at the center of debates over how journalists should cover his Administration. he yelps like a sixth grader sent our way on a dare, and dashes off. To cover Trump is almost definitionally to repeat yourself: its a clich-ridden beat, strewn with familiar caveats and rehearsals of his rehearsals of what people are saying. In the book, Trump tells Haberman that he makes the same point over and over to drum it into your beautiful brain. Haberman told me that she does it because she has to. Donald Trumps support in the citys wealthy political circles is waning, as 2024 rivals and potential candidates, including Nikki Haley and Mike Pence, make the rounds. [2] At that firm, a "publicity powerhouse" whose eponymous founder has been called "the dean of damage control" by Rudy Giuliani, Haberman's mother worked for a client list of influential New Yorkers including Donald Trump. And somewhat in connection with that, there's a long list of people he's belittled, people who've been loyal to him, like Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, Kevin McCarthy. The scene underscores a question that has shadowed Haberman for the past several years. Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent who joined The New York Times in 2015 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trumps advisers and their connections to Russia. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. Guy Cecil has led Priorities USA since 2015 and will leave at the end of March, as outside political groups begin to make plans for the 2024 races. Thank you. He mentioned Nixon unprompted in one of our interviews. Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. Over the years, she has honed a stable interpretation of Trump, evoking not a strongman but a showman, an egomaniac with shrewd instincts and bad opinions. [1] In 2022, she published the best-selling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. And, for all Habermans success in demystifying Trump, at times she seems to vest him with eerie power. He said that to me in one of our interviews. Like the president she covers, Haberman, 43, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and slightly ill at ease in Washington. Rosenhas taken issue with Habermans characterization of Trump as a master of media manipulation: If you are a man, and you bite a dog, he wrote, that does not make you a master of anything. But Haberman, who tends to predict that Trump will express his worst impulses and cause maximum damage, told me she believed that he is more often underestimated than overestimated. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. Trump, having tasted the fairy food of the Oval Office, seems similarly stricken, entranced by power and fame that he is unable to forsake. "This is a symbiotic relationship," says an administration official. 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. My job, she said, is to provide as much information on a topic as possible that is significant and relevant and related to events. What a President does, she noted, will always get coverage. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to . But who he is is also why he won and why he tripled down after Access Hollywood," the political crisis which Haberman says is probably the yardstick Trump is using to measure his response to the current situation. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. With a tentative tour that would include stops in Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, the Florida governor is paving the way for a presidential run. ", Trump has also sent her his famous press clippings with Sharpie notes on them, mostly with criticisms, but at least once with praise. he asks, pointing at the recorder between us. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. "I didn't care for that metaphor," Haberman says. Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. They're going to lose [their access] anyway," she says. Her measured stance infuriates Trump's detractors, who harangue her on Twitter for "normalizing" the president. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. Her expertise wasn't just Trumpit was the Trump psyche. She commutes to DC several times a week from her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three young children. He admires autocrats in other countries. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMj21lPeAEk&t=345s[/youtube], It was at City Hall that she met Thrush, who was working at the New York tabloid Newsday. A number of news reporters have tried and are still trying to understand former President Donald Trump and his influence on our nation's politics today. [3], Last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:13, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence, "Weddings/Celebrations: Maggie Haberman, Dareh Gregorian", "Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? She stared. She was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for coverage of the Trump administrations handling of the coronavirus. The former President once told her that he found air travel spooky.. Habermans own confidence man, though overexposed, can seem similarly elusive. 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. 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. "His whole thing has always been to be accepted among the New York elites, whom he sort of preemptively sneers atthat thing that people do when they are not really sure if they will be completely validated, where they push away people whose approval they are seeking. [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. Donald Trump will be basking in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. "So much of his approach is bending others to the way he sees things," she says. And, again, I could name many others. He's called him a weakling. But effective salesmanship must be based in credibilityan area in which his administration has suffered significant set-backs in recent days. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? It made me more able to take a punch. This worlda soap opera of excess and corruption playing non-stop through the New York of the ninetieswas Trumps, too. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/maggie-habermans-new-book-confidence-man-details-trumps-rise-to-prominence, Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute, Rex Tillerson testifies at corruption trial of Trump adviser, Trumps embrace of QAnon raising concerns about future political violence, How Trump may have violated the Presidential Records Act, "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america". Her coverage is often grounded in statements about Trumps characterthat he thrives on chaos but loves routine, or that he stirs up infighting among his cronies. Please check your inbox to confirm. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. "If you're going to come at her," says a Democratic operative, "you've got to come correct. Hope you'll take a moment to order CONFIDENCE MAN here. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. Designed with adjustable nose pads for a custom fit. When I asked her about these conceptual scoops, she corrected me: Theyre contextual scoops. Context is key to Habermans project. We know he does this. 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. By 1999, Marques put Haberman on the City Hall beat, where she covered then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump friend. She's called me as she was drivingswearing and running latebetween an errand at the American Girl doll store and a dinner party. She's so well-sourced and so well-connected that she doesn't need to," Karni says. Haberman jumped to Politico in 2010, where she covered him full-bore for the first time; he was then flirting with the idea of joining the 2012 Republican primary and beginning to spread the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? She was wearing an evil-eye bracelet. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Yes, Haberman does a decent job laying out the business life of DJT, as seen thru her decidedly inhospitable glasses. Three years later, she moved to the Times as it beefed up its political staff in advance of the 2016 campaign. She turned the phone over. Her son didn't have school after the ceremony, so Haberman brought him with her to a politics meeting at the Times. "This is a very precarious moment, in terms of what anyone can believe in. One colleague says she didn't realize there was a limit to how many Gchats you could have going at one time until she saw Haberman hit the maximum. Dhruv Khullar examines what strategies worked to control the virus, and talks to the C.D.C.s director, Rochelle Walensky, about the issue of misinformation. This past November, by the end of the candidates meandering, hour-long campaign announcement, she had tweeted about the speech more than twenty times. Maggie Haberman is a tireless, keen-eyed example. President Xi Jinping of China, he has been praising repeatedly since he left office. But that's what he said. 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. And it's very hard to know now whether he really believes this or whether it is just something he is saying. 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. (One of her refrains is I was shocked but not surprised.) She mounts a similar argument about Trump in her recent book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. The book presents Trump as a bullshit artist whose grand theme is his own greatness. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, presidency, and post-presidency for the Times. Feeling is also not her job. I just want to go back to the psychiatrist line. [twitter ]https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/553574601733992449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fblogs%2Ferik-wemple%2Fwp%2F2015%2F01%2F09%2Fmaggie-haberman-leaves-huge-hole-at-politico-moves-to-new-york-times%2F[/twitter], It's why he deals with her, Haberman says: "Longevity, just being around him a long time, is something he values." Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump circa 1997, Jeff Greenfield interviews Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns at the 92nd Street Y. Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? According to Hutchinson, Passantinos phone rangit was the Times reporter Maggie Haberman. "We were pretty demanding in terms of getting quotes, good-quality ones"which, in tabloid terms, means they have to be memorable and true"and getting them fast." "I do not think he is enjoying the job particularly, and that is based on reporting," she says. Its the crashing. Trump, apparently, does not get fazed by planes: on Air Force One, Haberman said, hed sometimes continue talking during rocky landings, while reporters slid around on their seats. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. The publication of Confidence Man reignited controversies over Habermans ethics. The phone rang, and she started laughing when she looked at her iPhone display. James Carville wanted her to come to Louisiana to talk to a class, but her kids were about to go on school vacation. Significantly, she was accumulating sources who were close to Trump, who knew when he was angry and what he watched on TV and how he could only sleep well in his own bed. 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. For the next decade, she worked for both the Post and the other tab in town, the New York Daily News, covering Hillary Clinton's senate campaign, Michael Bloomberg's mayoralty, and Clinton's first presidential campaign. Confidence Man, which synthesizes years of reporting on Trump and his milieu, is, in some ways, a standard-issue Trump book. I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. [6] Haberman worked for the Post's rival newspaper, the New York Daily News, for three and a half years in the early 2000s,[6] where she continued to cover City Hall. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman: 9780593297346 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books. We encounter all the usual suspects: Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort and Hope Hicks. She leaves it hanging for a momentpanic flashes across his facebut then gives him a bump. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. He is behaving in a racist way. Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. The aides and advisers who spoke to Haberman for the book - she writes that she interviewed more than 250 people - offer a damning portrait of a commander in chief who was uninterested in. He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist, because he's working everything out in real time. Lorenz's new classmates at the Post and a few of her old ones at the Times called her out-of-date self-empowerment-via-marketing-lingo "cringey" and basically labeled her a neo-journalism . But no matter what Haberman writes about Trump, he has never frozen her out. Both she and her subject navigate the public sphere as if they have something to prove. 75 and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in the Bronx. Meanwhile, Trump, still revelling in his defeat of Hillary Clinton, cast her as another antagonist, the embodiment of the Failing New York Times. She and the President invited doppelgnger comparisons: the flashy fabulist and the buttoned-down institutionalist locked in each others sights. She glanced at it, then apologized. A few minutes later, here he comes. I mean, how does he take in facts? 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. "You're going to bring this up every time, aren't you?" "She's like Michael Corleone," Thrush says, "sucked into the family business." Just as he didn't back down after being accused of sexual assault, she says he is unlikely to walk away from this fight or resign. And I want to start with, I think, the question a question that is all about what keeps him in the news, and that is his denial of the result of the 2020 election, insisting that he actually won. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to stare at his back as he gesticulates broadly and shouts at his dinner companions over the already considerable din at BLT Steak in Washington, DC, downstairs from the offices of the Times' bureau.
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