She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. 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. [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." But that's what he said. This would be a profound shift in the shape of the federal government. He is elated. Clyde covered Trump very sporadically in the 1980s and '90s. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. [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. ", 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. Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. [26][27], In January 2020, attorneys representing Nick Sandmann announced that Haberman was one of many media personalities they were suing for defamation for her coverage of the 2019 Lincoln Memorial Confrontation. When I asked her about these conceptual scoops, she corrected me: Theyre contextual scoops. Context is key to Habermans project. Honestly, the first name that came to mind as you were asking that question was Richard Nixon, with whom who is obviously not alive anymore, with whom he had a huge fascination. When the moderator of the panel, Jeff Greenfield, a veteran reporter and host of PBS's Need to Know, remarks that a Democratic senator told him the Republican senators think Trump is "nuts," Haberman prefaces her response with "I don't know that I'd go with the diagnostic that you used," but then offerswith specific details that are more enlightening and perhaps more damningthat she had lunch with a Republican senator who has been astonished to discover that Trump watches his every move in the media, calling him directly to parse his TV appearances and quotes he's given the print press. She glanced at it, then apologized. Yes, I can! ", When I tell Haberman what her colleagues say about her, she shrugs, like she's being complimented for breathing. "The difference is, Maggie is in no sense carrying water for Trump," Greenfield said. She finds the framing of her relationship with the president in romantic terms "facile." These words were spoken in 2008 by an unlikely film critic named Donald Trump. [7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush". Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. Instead, Habermans Times articles adhered to the journalistic conventions that the press critic Jay Rosen has labelled the view from nowhere. Rife with ostentatious neutrality, the pieces were seen to grant Trump and his circle undue legitimacy. 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. Maggie Haberman, thank you so much for joining us. CNN, for whom she is a political analyst, called. The first two years of the Trump presidency were a boom time for political books, and one of the boomiest was the deal announced in September 2017 in which the New York Times' star White House reporters, Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush . Habermans particular way of contextualizing often seems intended to puncture or undermine. He admires autocrats in other countries. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. There is also the question of what prolonged exposure to Trumpa man who profanes and corrupts everything he toucheshas done to Haberman herself. From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted. "I'm actually not trying to be funny," Haberman said, correcting them, and, when they continued to laugh, insisting, "Again, I'm not doing a comedy line. She doesn't see any climactic resolution to the Trump saga coming anytime soon. As for the breaking part, Haberman is more . We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. [20][21] A Guardian review of the book describes her as "the New York Times' Trump whisperer", and describes the book as "much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama.it gives Trump and those close to him plenty of voice and rope. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. 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. 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. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. Do you think, at his core, that he is racist? . There's a malevolence around how he does this a lot of the time, but he treats facts as if they are things that can be either discarded or invented or created or augmented, but facts are an ongoing, fluid thing with him. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. He confesses that he is drawn to her, like a moth to a flame. Like Kane in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Trump was a swaggering . Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. In the epilogue, Haberman describes a post-Presidential interview in which Trump cracked to his aides, I love being with her, shes like my psychiatrist. The next sentence reflexively brushes his statement aside, insisting, It was a meaningless line, almost certainly intended to flatter. Habermans point is that Trump rarely changes from context to context; he treats everyone like his psychiatrist. Maggie Haberman is a tireless, keen-eyed example. he asks, uncertainly. "On more than one occasion, somebody would fly out of their desk and [announce something] that the New York Times was about to post, or a story the Times was working on, or some random bit of gossip, and then somebody else would pop their head up and say, 'Oh, did Maggie just tell you that?' I think his niece is right. I was shaped by understanding what sold in a tabloid, Haberman told me. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. Judy Woodruff: 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. ", Trump has also sent her his famous press clippings with Sharpie notes on them, mostly with criticisms, but at least once with praise. And then, by the second week, something had just switched, and he was insisting that he had won. We know he does this. Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. 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. "I'm really not surprised. Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. His behavior is really what matters on this front. This purple frame wouldn't be complete without the intricate temple detail, a distinct touch to help you stand out from the crowd. He draws buildings. Maggie Haberman chose not to make this about another smear campaign against the 45th president of the United States, but rather offer some context that all readers ought to heed. 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. As she regards the man with the orange hair, it's like watching a predator decide whether or not to go in for the kill. Whereas most of the country knows Trump foremost as a reality-TV star from his time on The Apprentice, Haberman remembers that he was a New York institution before he became a national figure. Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. She'll wake up in the middle of the night and, instead of rolling over and going back to sleep, pick up her phone and start working. And I spoke with her about it this afternoon. Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess. Many of the juiciest Trump pieces have been broken by her: That story about him spending his evenings alone in a bathrobe, watching cable news? The next day, I called himhe's an old family friend of the Habermans and has known Maggie since she was about three days oldto ask him to elaborate. Both she and her subject navigate the public sphere as if they have something to prove. 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. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. Not true, says Risa Heller, a spokesperson for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: "She speaks to 100 people a day." And probably because her mother is a publicist, she doesn't view Trump's press flacks, or flacks in general, as the enemy. "Speak of the devil," she said into the phone. James Carville wanted her to come to Louisiana to talk to a class, but her kids were about to go on school vacation. By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. She's out with a new book. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. ", Haberman is growing weary of the DC establishment's seeming inability to metabolize the president's personality. One communications staffer after another told me that they appreciate the fact that she never blindsides them. The profiles sometimes suggest that she is addicted to her job, yet it might be equally accurate to say that she is enthralled by it: she made an initial choice and then lost the agency to decide. What Trump tries to do, Haberman told me, is create realities for himself and everyone else. But his conjuring is notshe searched for the right wordfriendly; theres a malevolence to it. She echoed the same thought to me in email dispatches as she and her colleagues furiously traded scoops with the Washington Post last week. Haberman told me that she believed a number of people from the Trump era remain newsworthy, either because they illuminate something about Trump himself or because they are the subjects of or witnesses in investigations. [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? When Haberman interviewed Trump in the Oval Office this April, he was making his usual complaint about how unfair her coverage is. In the midst of his second divorce, from Marla Maples, Trump was a maestro of controlling his tabloid image, calling in tidbits about himself. Habermans own sense of Trumps spooky potency continues to shape her coverage. In interviews, she has often invoked the childrens book Harold and the Purple Crayon to illustrate Trumps peculiar blurring of fact and fantasy. 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.". Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics 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. What is he at his core, what does he care about? Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. Haberman countered that such soap operas have been happening for years. The phone buzzed again. How Should an Older President Think About a Second Term? On this evening, she is recovering from the flu and has been up for the better part of two days, racing back and forth on Amtrak between her family and an Oval Office interview with the president, and speaking engagements at New York's Lincoln Center and DC's Newseum. [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. "In the beginning, you're going to a lot of crime scenes. 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. As the 2024 race gears up, the Confidence Man and his chronicler have become each others context, bound together and propelled by desires that both are and arent their own. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. 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 reported and wrote it with her frequent collaborator, Glenn Thrush. [2] They have three children and live in Brooklyn. She was a correspondent for Politico with roots in city tabloids, and while I didn't know much about politics or the media, I knew that when she reported. Haberman joined Judy Woodruff to discuss the book. By 1999, Marques put Haberman on the City Hall beat, where she covered then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump friend. Haberman and Thrush again, with their colleague Matthew Rosenberg. "She is literally always doing four things," says her friend and former New York Post colleague Annie Karni. I mean, does he just create a different factual universe? 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. You are considered the reporter who goes back longer with Donald Trump than anyone else and who understands him better than any other reporter. Ad Choices. As a construction tycoon, Trump sought out unsavory accomplices, partnering on one project with a Soviet-born investor whod been convicted for both first-degree assault (shoving a broken margarita glass into a mans face) and fraud (a pump-and-dump penny stock scheme involving the Genovese crime family). He donated heavily to politicians who could grease the wheels of his business machinations. A characteristic article, which she co-wrote in July of 2017, emphasized that Donald Trump, Jr.,s huddle with a Kremlin-linked lawyer proved unusual for a political campaign but consistent with the haphazard approach the Trump operation, and the White House, have taken in vetting people they deal with. It was a quintessential Haberman balancing act, which underlined both the meetings extraordinary nature (for Washington) and the mundane pattern that it fit (for the Trumps). Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. 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. What erodes that is very dangerous." She's "wickedly competitive," says Gregg Birnbaum, the former Post editor (now senior political editor at NBC News Digital) whom Haberman credits with drilling into her head, "Do not get beat, do not get beat. "I'm not sure the objective facts will let him do that this time. But, for all Habermans reticence, she maintains a combative Twitter presence, and is quick to press her case in replies when she believes that shes been mischaracterized. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Most recently, just in the last few days, he put out a statement about Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. Lately he's gone digital (sort of): He'll write the note on the clip, and then have White House Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks take a picture of the note and e-mail it to her. We discussed Trumps romance with the media. [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. He is very aware that, if you repeat something over and over again, it can turn it into something real. 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. Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. And Haberman stresses the racism that has permeated Trumps image since he and his father were sued for housing discrimination in the seventies. 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. I care about getting it right. A word I didnt use in the book, she told me, but that a lot of people whove worked for [Trump] use, is nihilist. In Confidence Man, Haberman writes that Trump is often simply, purely opaque, permitting people to read meaning and depth into every action, no matter how empty they may be.. [19], In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Slate called her Trump's "snake charmer"; New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick recently likened Trump to her "ardent, twisted suitor." 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. Maggie Haberman, thank you, the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other. "It's like she's in the building, but she's not even in the city. Brian Fallon, who was a campaign spokesperson for Clinton, says that Haberman was in touch with him and his staff so often that it was like she'd been assigned to cover them. ", 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. NEW YORK Late one recent afternoon, Maggie Haberman pulled into a parking spot in the lot at Gargiulo's, the old-time Italian restaurant in Coney Island where Donald Trump's father used to . 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 was on her phone. In hindsight, Haberman was building a reservoir of knowledge and contacts that would make her probably the best-sourced reporter of the 2016 campaign. The books thesisTrumps gonna Trumpis pointedly unglamorous, in keeping with Habermans deflationary assessments of Trumps character. For a moment, it seems he might be coming over to tell off the reporter. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to . So Is Maggie Haberman's Wild Ride", "Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views", "EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign's Cozy Press Relationship", "Nate Silver and Maggie Haberman Duke it Out on Twitter Over Clinton Email Coverage", "Why the medias coverage of Hillary Clinton's emails still matters", "New York Times reporter just demonstrated some astonishing false equivalency", "Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story", "Exclusive: 'I'm just not going to leave': New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House", "Confidence Man review: Maggie Haberman takes down Trump", "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers", "CovCath students file 5 lawsuits over Lincoln Memorial incident", "NY Times' Maggie Haberman Criticized for Saving Trump Quote About Not Leaving White House for Her Book", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maggie_Haberman&oldid=1139756504, This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 19:13. 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 Trump's advisers and . People have a right to feel however they feel, she said, dismissing the subject. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. NEW --> Declassified after-action reports support U.S. military commanders who said Biden team was indecisive during the Afghanistan crisis The White House said Friday that no such reports exist. 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. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. "You can offer perspective, you can offer insight, you can offer details, but they've got to be locked down. I also think he's extremely suggestible and I think he's extremely paranoid. Is it the claustrophobia that bothers her? Yet her emphasis on her own unspecialness feels more canny than sincere, animated by the need to convey that she is immune to Trumps games. She catches herself. Part of what makes Haberman one of Trumps foremost contextualizers is her fluency in the worlds that formed him. Some of his aides laughed. "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 . Some passages unfold as groans of exhaustion: For all the intrigue that is part of the Trump mythos, Haberman writes, the irony, say those who have known him for years, is that he has had only a handful of moves throughout his entire adult life. Part of the work of Confidence Man is to source and taxonomize each of these moves, and to identify when Trump is drawing on any one of them. "She grew up in an environment where journalism that was as accurate as humanly possible was practically a religion," he says. Questions about her process elicited similarly guarded answers.
Is Theo Baker Related To Mary Berry,
How Old Was Sebastian Stan In The Covenant,
Bureau Of Vital Statistics Worth Street,
Articles M