{"id":62457,"date":"2018-04-07T05:16:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=62457"},"modified":"2018-04-07T05:16:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:16:53","slug":"trump-skip-correspondents-dinner-talk-radio-hes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-skip-correspondents-dinner-talk-radio-hes.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Skip Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. But Talk Radio? He\u2019s In."},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump to Skip Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. But Talk Radio? He\u2019s In.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

President Trump \u2014 buffeted by rumbling trade tensions with China, delicate negotiations with North Korea and fallout from the Russia investigation \u2014 took a few minutes this week to reach for the media equivalent of Linus\u2019s blanket: New York City talk radio.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you asked me to do the show, I said, I\u2019m thinking, \u2018I\u2019m gonna take a couple minutes, I\u2019m gonna do that show \u2014 in between North Korea and Iran and all of the other things going on,\u2019\u201d Mr. Trump told the hosts of \u201cBernie & Sid in the Morning\u201d on WABC-AM, a drive-time program that is not exactly a must-listen beyond certain toll roads in the New York metropolitan area.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I gotta tell you, that\u2019s the kind of guy you are, sir,\u201d replied Bernard McGuirk, a co-host and a longtime Trump friend. \u201cThat\u2019s why we love you.\u201d (The interview, which aired Friday morning, was taped on Thursday.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The president, a Queens native, grew up immersed in the jabbering, elbows-out culture of talk radio, province of swaggerers like the sports host Mike Francesa. Mr. Trump, who regularly appeared on Howard Stern\u2019s program before his election, absorbed the practice of political leaders addressing constituents over the air: New York mayors have long held court by radio, including a memorable exchange in which Rudolph W. Giuliani dressed down the owner of a ferret.<\/span><\/p>\n

Presidents often turn to unconventional news outlets when it comes to reassuring their base: Barack Obama\u2019s late-tenure appearances on \u201cBetween Two Ferns,\u201d the Zach Galifianakis web series, and the comedian Marc Maron\u2019s \u201cWTF\u201d podcast were lauded by liberal fans, even as traditionalists grumbled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has proved Scrooge-like when it comes to doling out formal interviews (the major broadcast networks and CNN have not sat down with him in nearly a year), and his last White House news conference was in February \u2014 of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

His patience for rigorous interviews is thin, and he prefers cozier interlocutors like Jeanine Pirro of Fox News or Mr. McGuirk of WABC, a former Don Imus executive producer and on-air sidekick who, on Friday, praised Mr. Trump\u2019s speeches as \u201cbeautiful, wonderful, fantastic, funny, relaxed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump did manage to make some news during the segment: He let slip that he was \u201cpretty unlikely\u201d to attend this year\u2019s White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner, the clubby black-tie gathering that presidents had attended for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s absence from last year\u2019s dinner was the first presidential no-show since Ronald Reagan, ailing from a gunshot wound, skipped it in 1981. (The Gipper called in from his hospital bed.) There was buzz around a Trump appearance at this year\u2019s event after he delivered a monologue at the Gridiron Club gala in March, but that event was not televised. The correspondents\u2019 dinner is carried live by some cable networks, and the optics of Mr. Trump\u2019s hobnobbing with the journalists he routinely derides may be off-brand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe White House has informed us that the president does not plan to participate in this year\u2019s dinner but that he will actively encourage members of the executive branch to attend,\u201d Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association, said in a statement on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, plans to appear in Mr. Trump\u2019s stead.<\/span><\/p>\n

On WABC, Mr. Trump showed no sign of d\u00e9tente with the press. In fact, he laced into the White House press corps, calling it \u201cso bad, it\u2019s so fake, it\u2019s so made-up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re like novelists,\u201d the president said, who offered no evidence for his claim. \u201cI call them novelists. They make up the sources.\u201d He deemed last year\u2019s correspondents\u2019 dinner a \u201cmassive failure,\u201d prompting Mr. McGuirk to chime in, \u201cYes, yes! Definitely!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When asked for comment on Friday, the White House noted that Mr. Trump had pretaped his radio appearance, rather than calling in live. (A producer at WABC said that Mr. Trump had recorded the interview on Thursday morning.) The president said on the air that he was fond of Mr. McGuirk, who, with his co-host, Sid Rosenberg, started the show last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s nine-minute appearance on WABC was not exactly an outlier when it comes to high-ranking administration officials making time for local New York programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Late last month, Lawrence Kudlow, the president\u2019s chief economic adviser, and Ambassador John Bolton, the newly appointed national security adviser, granted interviews to the same relatively obscure radio show: \u201cThe Cats Roundtable,\u201d hosted by the Manhattan oil refinery magnate, supermarket owner and former New York City Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.<\/span><\/p>\n

So will the president be appearing on the \u201cRoundtable\u201d soon?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have not asked yet,\u201d Mr. Catsimatidis wrote in an email, although he added, \u201cHe did do pre-election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/06\/business\/media\/trump-radio-white-house-correspondents-dinner.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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