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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump Expert Reveals the Only Time He Made Her Laugh
Donald Trump biographer-slash-nemesis Maggie Haberman admitted that Trump has made her genuinely laugh one single time. Asked if there had been a time Trump made her laugh 'intentionally,' not because of 'something silly he's done,' during the On With Kara Swisher podcast, Haberman recalled the moment Trump mocked his former chief of staff Reince Priebus in 2015. It was 'the one time that he has ever made me laugh,' Haberman prefaced, though 'I can't speak to whether it was intentional or not.' Haberman wrote the 2022 Trump biography Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America and covered his initial rise to the presidency. It was right after Trump first entered the 2016 presidential race and Haberman called him to ask about a story that quoted Reince Priebus—then Republican National Committee chair and later Trump's chief of staff— sternly lecturing him about his offensive rhetoric about Mexican immigrants. 'I was asking Trump about it, and he said…'He knows better than to lecture me.' And then there was a pause,' before he added, ''This is not a five star army general,'' she recalled. 'And it just, it made me laugh. Whether he was trying to make me laugh, I don't know.' 'I've seen him try to make crowds laugh,' she explained, but this was different. 'I think he was more just—being sarcastic.' Haberman then weighed in on whether anything Trump does is intentional. 'It is more calculated than it seems sometimes, and then other times it's not,' she said of his social media outbursts. 'The problem is figuring out which one is which.'
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New York Times denounces Trump's 'intimidation tactics' against reporters
The New York Times on Monday denounced 'intimidation tactics' by President Donald Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's reporting on Elon Musk and the Defense Department. The newspaper said in a post on X — the platform owned by Musk — that Trump's approach has 'never caused us to back down from our mission of holding powerful people to account, regardless of which party is in office.' Baker, Haberman and their colleagues 'have an unrivaled record of covering this and prior administrations fully and fairly,' the Times said. It was responding to Trump's Sunday night Truth Social post that specifically criticized the Times' Maggie Haberman, whose name was misspelled by the president as 'Hagerman,' and Peter Baker, along with Baker's wife, New Yorker writer Susan Glasser. 'There's something really wrong with these people, and their SICK, DERANGED EDITORS,' Trump wrote. 'They did everything in their power to help rig the Election against me. How did that work out???' Trump has been known to publicly attack news organizations or specific journalists; not all of them choose to respond and engage. Baker has written 'many of the long and boring Fake News hit pieces against me,' Trump said. Haberman was among five bylines on a story released late Thursday that said the billionaire Musk was to receive a briefing on the military's top-secret plans if a war broke out with China. The newspaper said it would represent a potential conflict of interest for Musk, who is helping the administration in government cost-cutting moves and has financial interests in China. The Defense Department furiously denounced the story, calling the Times 'a propaganda machine that should immediately retract their lies.' The newspaper stood by its story and later reported that the meeting was called off after the Times reported it was about to happen. While Trump also said it was a 'fake story,' he made clear that Musk should not be given access to the information. Haberman is the author of the 2022 book 'Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.' ___ David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at and
Associated Press
24-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
New York Times denounces Trump's ‘intimidation tactics' against reporters
The New York Times on Monday denounced 'intimidation tactics' by President Donald Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's reporting on Elon Musk and the Defense Department. The newspaper said in a post on X — the platform owned by Musk — that Trump's approach has 'never caused us to back down from our mission of holding powerful people to account, regardless of which party is in office.' Baker, Haberman and their colleagues 'have an unrivaled record of covering this and prior administrations fully and fairly,' the Times said. It was responding to Trump's Sunday night Truth Social post that specifically criticized the Times' Maggie Haberman, whose name was misspelled by the president as 'Hagerman,' and Peter Baker, along with Baker's wife, New Yorker writer Susan Glasser. 'There's something really wrong with these people, and their SICK, DERANGED EDITORS,' Trump wrote. 'They did everything in their power to help rig the Election against me. How did that work out???' Trump has been known to publicly attack news organizations or specific journalists; not all of them choose to respond and engage. Baker has written 'many of the long and boring Fake News hit pieces against me,' Trump said. Haberman was among five bylines on a story released late Thursday that said the billionaire Musk was to receive a briefing on the military's top-secret plans if a war broke out with China. The newspaper said it would represent a potential conflict of interest for Musk, who is helping the administration in government cost-cutting moves and has financial interests in China. The Defense Department furiously denounced the story, calling the Times 'a propaganda machine that should immediately retract their lies.' The newspaper stood by its story and later reported that the meeting was called off after the Times reported it was about to happen. While Trump also said it was a 'fake story,' he made clear that Musk should not be given access to the information. Haberman is the author of the 2022 book 'Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.'
