From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted. [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. [28], Journalists and authors criticized Haberman for allegedly choosing to withhold information about Donald Trump for the sake of her book, despite being aware of it ahead of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, although they presented no evidence of when she had learned of Trump's statements. [19], In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. He has called you, essentially, like his psychiatrist, whether you agree with that term or not. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. These days, in her profession, the truth is a demanding god. Are you doing an interview?" At first Thrush didn't like her, mistaking her voraciousness for shtick. James Carville wanted her to come to Louisiana to talk to a class, but her kids were about to go on school vacation. 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. 2023 Getty Images. Throughout our conversation, she gave practiced, useful answers that slipped easily into anecdote, and she continually steered the topic away from herself. Thank you. Slate called her Trump's "snake charmer"; New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick recently likened Trump to her "ardent, twisted suitor." I think he has a long pattern of racist behavior going back to when he was in New York City. He stands looking down at her, swaying a little, slightly walleyed, but he still has a big-man swagger. Mostly, copy kids at the Post did errands and administrative work, but once a week they would be named "Josephine reporter" or "Joe reporter" of the day and sent out to learn the ropes. How does he see the truth? But he is one of the things he said to me in one of our interviews was the he uses repetition in interviews to beat something into and I quote "my beautiful brain.". She was the dominant Trump reporter on the campaign, and she didn't travel with him. Maggie Haberman, Author, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America": It's a really good question, Judy. The New York Times reporter may be the greatest political reporter working today. Trump wants what she can give him access toa kind of status he's always craved in a newspaper that, she says, "holds an enormously large place in his imagination." 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. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. Maggie Haberman, thank you so much for joining us. Donald Trump will be basking in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, presidency, and post-presidency for the Times. "This is the book Trump fears most.". And I think that the people who he would put into key jobs would be very alarming to a number of people across Washington. She leaves it hanging for a momentpanic flashes across his facebut then gives him a bump. All rights reserved. We know he does this. In late April, Haberman spoke on (yet another) panel, this one at the 92nd Street Y, with her colleague Alex Burns. Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. Ad Choices. Confidence Man review: Maggie Haberman takes down Trump 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. Haberman argued that she did not learn this until after Joe Biden took office. I care about getting it right. "Can I come back?" "And yet Trump seems driven to connect with her.". Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. But, no, I think that, of political of U.S. political leaders who are alive right now, I'm very hard-pressed to point to a single person who he really admires, unless they're fighting for him. Questions about her process elicited similarly guarded answers. So it must be that were doing it wrong. I noted that the idea of silver-bullet journalismof the one article that levels the Trump White Houseis deeply bewitching. [12], Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. I think, to quote someone who knew him years ago who said this to me a couple of months back, a second Trump presidency would be very heavily driven by spite. What HBOs Chernobyl got right, and what it got terribly wrong. Like Kane in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Trump was a swaggering . Friends and colleagues say this is her standard operating procedure. How Maggie Haberman Covers Trump Without Losing Her Mind He was telling people he wasn't going to leave. "You're pretty!" Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? He draws roads. The appointment of a special counsel Robert Mueller last week "took some of the air out of his tires" but he is still spoiling for a fight, Haberman says. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. Habermans assessment was grimmer. ", The 1980s and '90s New York in which Haberman was raised is the same milieu in which Trump began his crusade to sand down his Queens edges and gild the Manhattan skyline. At the annual conference this week, conservative celebrities like Mike Lindell and Kari Lake will attend, as will Donald Trump, but many possible 2024 rivals are skipping it. Haberman's father, Clyde, is a Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times reporter, and her mother, Nancy, is a publicity powerhouse at Rubensteina communications firm founded by Howard Rubenstein, whose famous spinning prowess Trump availed himself of during various of his divorce and business contretemps. ", Haberman's bullshit detector is appreciated by partisans on both sides: Even if they can't spin her, they know the other side won't be able to spin her either. Because she enjoyed good access to him on the campaign trail and during his presidency she has been called a "Trump. I reflexively tense up; she doesn't flinch. Like, floating in the sky.". ", Haberman is growing weary of the DC establishment's seeming inability to metabolize the president's personality. Designed with adjustable nose pads for a custom fit. In advance of its release, CNN published an excerpt that revealed that Trump planned to simply remain in the White House after his November 2020 election loss. Please check your inbox to confirm. 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. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. penguinrandomhouse.com. 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. Once, in July 2015, she did laugh, on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, at something Democratic congressman Keith Ellison said about Trump having "momentum" going into the primaries. The scene underscores a question that has shadowed Haberman for the past several years. The phone rang, and she started laughing when she looked at her iPhone display. [7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush". "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" by Maggie Haberman (Penguin Press), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available October 4 via Amazon . 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. [19] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president". He "kind of chuckled" and replied, "It's like therapy. Ashley Parker, now a Washington Post White House correspondent but then one of Haberman's colleagues at the Times, says Haberman confirmed the tip and wrote the story on her phone during the graduation. "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." According to Hutchinson, Passantinos phone rangit was the Times reporter Maggie Haberman. . One attendee chastised another for looking at her phone, saying that its light was distracting, as though we were all at a cliffhanger movie. In the course of reporting the book, she shared considerable . Maggie Haberman during a screening of The Fourth Estate at TheTimesCenter on May 9, 2018, in New York City. But effective salesmanship must be based in credibilityan area in which his administration has suffered significant set-backs in recent days. And, again, I could name many others. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. And that's going to mean certain situations are fraught. 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. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. She is not a fan of SNL's impression of Kellyanne Conway as a psychopathic fame whore. . [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. You know, he plopped himself down on Fifth Avenue"a reference to the 58-story Trump Tower"and he still was not treated seriously by New York's business elite. By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. 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. Maggie Lindsy Haberman (New York, 30 oktober 1973) is een Amerikaans journaliste.. Haberman is Witte Huis-correspondent voor The New York Times en politiek analist voor CNN.Daaraan voorafgaand was zij als politiek verslaggever werkzaam voor Politico en de New York Daily News.. Afkomst en opleiding. Her son didn't have school after the ceremony, so Haberman brought him with her to a politics meeting at the Times. He is elated. She doesn't see any climactic resolution to the Trump saga coming anytime soon. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, Among the revelations in the recently released materials from the January 6th committee was an account of a conversation that took place in May, 2022, between the former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and the former White House ethics attorney Stefan Passantino. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. And he makes that very clear. memeorandum: DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Brea Haberman, one of the main conduits of Oval Office drama, came under particular fire for her handling of anonymous sources. The media writ large was unprepared to cover a political candidate who lied as freely as Trump did, on matters big and small, Haberman reflects, adding that the word lie presumes knowledge of a speakers motivations. How Should an Older President Think About a Second Term? [2] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races.