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Trump torches Biden’s shutout press record — opens floodgates of media access in first year back
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought a surge in media access following the Biden administration, with hundreds of direct exchanges between a press corps he frequently blasts as «fake news» and a president who rarely ducks a question, according to exclusive data on his first year back in office.
Trump has participated in at least 433 open press events that stretched from official remarks to impromptu gaggles outside of Air Force One to press conferences where the president interacted with the media, as of Monday. The data, compiled by the White House Stenographer’s Office and provided to Fox News Digital, does not include quick exchanges, such as Trump answering a shouted question while greeting a foreign leader at the White House.
«President Trump is the most transparent and accessible President in American history,» White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston told Fox News Digital. «President Trump takes unrestricted questions from the legacy media and posts directly from his Truth Social account on the most important issues facing our nation every single day. The American people have never had a more direct and authentic relationship with a president of the United States than they have with President Trump.»
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By contrast, former President Joe Biden’s first year in office was mired in frustration that the media was shut out, including when he delayed holding his first press conference as president for more than two months into his term. In fact, Biden’s two-month stretch of avoiding a news conference was the longest in a century, since President Calvin Coolidge, known as «Silent Cal,» according to The Washington Post.
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought a surge in media access following the Biden administration. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The White House Stenographer’s Office found that it transcribed 2.4 million words from open press events with Trump as of Monday, which is the equivalent to 4.1 «War and Peace» books, 31.1 «Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone» books, or 22.2 «The Art of the Deal» books, the White House said.
Specifically, Trump participated in 156 press sprays, 13 general gaggles, 13 press conferences, 32 Marine One gaggles, 30 gaggles outside Air Force One, 41 gaggles while on the presidential plane and three formal press briefings, according to the data.
Those press sprays — informal media availabilities where the president fields a handful of questions during bilateral meetings, executive order signings and roundtables — accounted for 128 questions of the 292 questions Trump answered in open press settings.
A handful of Trump’s open press events have been marathons that lasted well over an hour, including an October roundtable on Antifa that ran 95 minutes and a series of lengthy Cabinet meetings.
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Those meetings with Trump’s Cabinet chiefs included a 105-minute session in April, a 124-minute meeting in July, a 138-minute meeting in December and, in August, the longest televised Cabinet meeting in U.S. history at 197 minutes.
Trump is known for not holding back when interacting with the media, frequently calling out reporters he believes print «fake news» and biased content before rolling to the next question during his numerous events. His fiery exchanges with reporters have frequently gone viral, including when he told one reporter «quiet, piggy» or another exchange in November where he called a reporter a «stupid person» when asked about the suspected murderer of U.S. National Guard member Spc. Sarah Beckstrom.
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Trump’s love of public speaking and back-and-forth with reporters set White House stenographers on edge shortly after his inauguration in January, as they floated hiring additional staff to keep up with a pace far faster than under the quieter Biden administration.
Looking at his full term, President Joe Biden held 37 press conferences, 679 informal question-and-answer sessions and 151 interviews. (Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press )
Four years ago, as 2021 came to a close, The Associated Press reported that Biden held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors, as well as fewer media interviews than any recent president. Fox News found that Biden participated in 53 press gaggles, 10 press conferences — including with foreign leaders — and 345 public events featuring his official remarks, such as executive order signings and speeches to federal agencies, though those frequently did not include interactions with the media.
Biden’s lack of access came to a head in March 2021 as reporters pressed the White House on why the president did not hold a press conference for weeks since his inauguration.
«The president takes questions several times a week,» then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki told the media when pressed about the lack of press access to the president in March 2021. «He took questions actually twice yesterday, which is an opportunity for the people covering the White House to ask him about whatever news is happening on any given day.»
Many of Biden’s appearances in 2021, as the pandemic continued, were video messages or public events that did not include taking questions from the press.
«Come on, press, you gotta go,» Biden staffers were heard telling the media when the 46th president would wrap up public remarks.
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Looking at his full term, Biden held 37 press conferences, 679 informal question-and-answer sessions and 151 interviews, according to the White House Transition Project, which tracks presidential transitions and media access.
President Donald Trump averaged 1.9 media exchanges per workday in his first 100 days of his second administration. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press )
The White House Transition Project also tallies how often presidents engage with the press on a daily basis.
By that measure, Trump averaged 1.9 media exchanges per workday in his first 100 days of his second administration, compared to Biden’s 1.3, former President Barack Obama’s 1.1 and former President George W. Bush’s 1.1 interactions per workday. During Trump’s first term, his first 100 days in office averaged 1.3 media interactions per workday.
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«With an Average of 1.9 Press Sessions a Day, President Trump in 2025 Leads the Recent Presidential Pack Answering Reporters’ Queries. Not only did President Trump have more press interchanges than his predecessors during his first hundred days, but his regularly televised question-and-answer sessions with reporters caught the public’s attention,» the White House Transition Project.
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Video: así fue evacuada la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum por el terremoto en México que dejó al menos dos muertos
Un sismo de magnitud 6,5 con epicentro en Guerrero, en el suroeste de México, sacudió este viernes esa zona turística de la costa Pacífica y la cercana Ciudad de México. Autoridades reportaron al menos dos muertos y daños graves.
El terremoto se registró poco antes de las 8:00, hora local, según datos del Servicio Sismológico Nacional mexicano.
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Autoridades de Ciudad de México reportaron la muerte accidental de un hombre de 67 años que se cayó mientras evacuaba su edificio durante el temblor. “El hombre desalojó su departamento en el segundo piso, tropezó y perdió el conocimiento”, informó el gobierno de la alcaldía local Benito Juárez. A la llegada de los paramédicos, “ya no presentaba signos vitales”, añadió.
Y la gobernadora del estado de Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, confirmó el fallecimiento de una mujer de 56 años tras el colapso de su vivienda.
Además, 12 personas resultaron lesionadas, según reportó la alcaldesa de la capital mexicana, Clara Brugada, en la red social X.
El sismo obligó también a suspender la habitual rueda de prensa que la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum brinda cada mañana en el Palacio Nacional de Ciudad de México. Imágenes de la transmisión en vivo mostraron cómo fue evacuada tras exclamar “uy, está temblando” y pedir calma en el lugar mientras se activaban los protocolos de seguridad ante el movimiento telúrico.
El sismo tuvo su epicentro a 15 kilómetros de San Marcos, cerca de la turística Acapulco, en el estado de Guerrero, informó Sheinbaum a su regreso minutos después del temblor.
Los videos de los edificios de Ciudad de México sacudiéndose circularon en las redes sociales. (Video: X @MVSNoticias/Foto: Francisco ROBLES / AFP.)
La violenta sacudida fue precedida un minuto antes por las alarmas de advertencia y algunas personas salieron a las calles aún en pijama.
Cuatro heridos y cientos de viviendas afectadas en San Marcos
El Heraldo de México reportó que hubo cuatro heridos en San Marcos y más de 500 casas dañadas (70 de ellas quedaron inhabitables) tras el sismo. Además, un hospital quedó colapsado.
Según informó Diego Armando Valente Pineda, director de Protección Civil municipal, el temblor golpeó especialmente a las casas de adobe. “Al momento llevamos un recuento de 300 viviendas de adobe afectadas en el municipio, en algunas comunidades y parte de la cabecera municipal”, detalló el funcionario durante un recorrido de evaluación.
Imágenes del Ángel de la Independencia durante el temblor de magnitud 6.5. (Video: X @GuateToday)
Además, 200 viviendas de material también sufrieron daños. De ese total, 70 casas quedaron inhabitables, la mayoría de adobe, por presentar “fisuras considerables, desprendimiento completo de paredes y algunas incluso colapsaron”, explicó Valente Pineda.
El hospital del IMSS-Bienestar de San Marcos también resultó con daños estructurales. “El hospital está colapsado; hay fisuras y personal de la Secretaría de Gestión Integral de Riesgos y Protección Civil del Estado ya está revisando el inmueble para determinar si es apto para seguir utilizándose”, indicó el director de Protección Civil.
El temblor principal desató una intensa actividad sísmica posterior. “Desde el sismo fuerte de magnitud 6.5 llevamos el conteo de más de 305 réplicas, algunas de 5.0 y 5.5, por lo que las réplicas van a continuar”, advirtió el portavoz.
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Sismos mortales
Parte de Ciudad de México, principalmente la zona céntrica, está asentada sobre un subsuelo fangoso de lo que antes era un lago, lo que la hace particularmente sensible a los sismos. Los que más se resienten son los generados en la costa de Guerrero, al encontrarse a menos de 400 km.
El 19 de septiembre de 1985 un terremoto de magnitud 8,1 devastó una amplia zona de la capital. Con epicentro en la costa del Pacífico, entre Guerrero y Michoacán, sacudió también a gran parte del centro y sur del país.
Durante años, variaron las cifras oficiales en las estimaciones de muertos del sismo de 1985. Según un recuento de actas de defunción oficiales publicado en 2015, causó 12.843 muertes.
También un 19 de septiembre, en 2017, un terremoto de 7,1 dejó 369 fallecidos, la mayoría en Ciudad de México.
México se ubica entre cinco placas tectónicas, cuyos movimientos convierten al país en uno de los que registra mayor actividad sísmica en el mundo, particularmente en la costa del Pacífico desde la frontera con Guatemala hasta el estado de Jalisco (oeste).
(Con información de AFP)
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Mamdani disputes antisemitism definition amid blowback from Jewish community about Day 1 executive orders
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Zohran Mamdani, the newly sworn-in mayor of New York City, suggested Friday that the widely adopted definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) does not actually protect Jewish New Yorkers. The mayor spoke amid backlash over Day 1 executive orders that have angered many Jewish and civil rights groups.
The self-described democratic socialist also dismissed allegations that the timing of his executive orders, which came just hours after he was sworn in, were illustrative of what critics have argued is his record of hostility toward Israel and the Jewish community.
The new mayor’s Day 1 directives included rescinding a ban on city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel and ending the city’s adoption of the IHRA definition on antisemitism ushered in by the former mayor, Eric Adams.
«When we speak about the IHRA definition that you asked about, you know, protecting Jewish New Yorkers is going to be a focus of my administration, and I also know that a number, as you said, of leading Jewish organizations, have immense concerns around this definition,» Mamdani said in response to questions about his executive orders Friday afternoon in Brooklyn.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani suggested Friday that the widely adopted definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance does not actually protect Jewish New Yorkers. (Reuters/Jeenah Moon and Jennifer Mitchell/Fox News Digital)
«What we will do is actually deliver on our commitment to protect Jewish New Yorkers in a manner that is able to actually fulfill that,» he added before moving on to another question.
When asked about the criticism regarding the speed of the executive orders aimed at rescinding protections against antisemitism in New York City, Mamdani did not directly answer the question.
«As the new mayor of a city, you have to sign a continuation of all prior executive orders or a revocation or an amendment of all of them. And, so, what we did was sign an executive order that continued every executive order that predated the moment when our former mayor was indicted, a moment when many New Yorkers lost even more faith in New York City politics and the ability of city government to actually prioritize the needs of the public,» Mamdani responded.
«And what we will now do is showcase that new era to protect each and every New Yorker and to deliver for those same New Yorkers in a manner that they have not seen under prior administrations.»
Newly sworn-in Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Getty Images; AP Images)
Mamdani’s responses at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn came shortly after a slew of civil rights and pro-Jewish organizations doubled down on the criticism over Mamdani’s Day 1 directives affecting the Jewish community.
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«We are deeply troubled that, on his first day in office, Mayor Mamdani weakened protections to fight antisemitism,» the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) New York and New Jersey chapter said Friday.
The group, alongside a cohort of other New York-area Jewish groups, issued a joint statement against Mamdani’s executive orders.
«Revoking these executive orders removes key tools for addressing antisemitism, including BDS-driven efforts that seek to demonize, delegitimize and isolate the world’s only Jewish state,» the ADL added.
Zohran Mamdani has faced backlash from the Jewish community over his Day 1 executive orders affecting Jewish New Yorkers. (Andres Kudacki/Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas via Getty Images)
In addition to Mamdani’s executive order rescinding «all executive orders issued on or after September 26, 2024,» which included the measures affecting the Jewish community, the new mayor also unveiled a second executive order on Day 1 establishing five new deputy mayor positions in his administration.
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Also Friday, Mamdani unveiled another new executive order shortly after he was sworn in to establish a new «Office of Mass Engagement,» which aims to prioritize and centralize the city government’s public comment and feedback mechanisms intended to help New Yorkers stay engaged with politics in the Big Apple.
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A customer at a McDonald’s in Brazil was seen launching into a flying kick toward an employee during a fight in the fast-food restaurant.
The incident happened at the chain’s Sao Paulo location during a confrontation between workers and customers, The Sun reported.
A couple was seen arguing with staff members on Dec. 13 when the dispute escalated.
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An altercation occurred in a McDonald’s in Brazil, which ended in a customer launching a «flying kick» at an employee. (Mike Leidig/newsX)
As both sides scream at each other, a female customer is seen hurling a fallen burger at one of the employees, the outlet reported.
In response, an employee throws what appeared to be a burger box at a man in a white T-shirt who appears to be accompanying the woman.
The man leads a small girl away before he launched himself at employees near a counter with a flying kick. An employee then appears to throw a punch, prompting the man to walk away.
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Footage captured an altercation in a McDonald’s in Brazil. (Mike Leidig/newsX)
Other employees attempted to step in as the woman demanded her money back. She is seen picking something up from the counter and throwing it before the footage ends.
The reason for the dispute was unclear, but local media outlets said it could have stemmed from a food order.
McDonald’s said it regretted the scenes of violence at its Sao Paulo branch, the Sun report states.
A McDonald’s employee in Brazil is seen getting ready to throw something toward a customer. (Mike Leidig/newsX)
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The fast-food giant said it was investigating the incident and taking appropriate measures.
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