Sensitive subject, but we know there are a number of incidents that happened during his presidency that led people to say he is racist. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. 2023 Getty Images. she says she told him. Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. "But I also know he can't allow himself to ever quit." He is behaving in a racist way. Todays press culture thrusts reporters onstage, parsing their judgments and perspectives as part of a ceaseless Twitter meta-drama about journalistic integrity. he asks, pointing at the recorder between us. What he needs his attention. Donald Trumps support in the citys wealthy political circles is waning, as 2024 rivals and potential candidates, including Nikki Haley and Mike Pence, make the rounds. Collect, curate and comment on your files. 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. It was simply desperation for a job other than bartending that led her to newspapers. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. Like, Maggies friendly to us. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. And, as I write, it was meant to flatter and it's a meaningless lie. "And so he will take this chair and say to you, 'This is actually a table.' He is who he is and he's not going to change. ", It makes her both an enticing challenge and a nettlesome problem for a president who does not let the truth get in the way of a good story. What HBOs Chernobyl got right, and what it got terribly wrong. By the time Trump formally announced his candidacy in June 2015 and Haberman was assigned to his campaign, she'd been reporting on him for a decade. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. "This is the book Trump fears most.". And, for all Habermans success in demystifying Trump, at times she seems to vest him with eerie power. People wanted her to provide a normative framing for what was going on, the professor and media commentator Daniel Drezner said. In a December 19th front-page article, she portrayed the candidate as a shrunken presence on the political landscape. Yet, if a single overarching lesson emerges from the body of work that Haberman has assembled over the past half decade, its that the press and the American public discount Trump at our peril. I mean, how does he take in facts? [29][21], Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, a reporter for the New York Daily News, formerly of the New York Post, and son of Vartan Gregorian, in a November 2003 ceremony at the Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan. The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. She goes on to talk about a fragile ego that has to be constantly fed and so on. The former President is not what he seems, she said, but hes not nothing. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics [15] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. "She came into the Page One conference room, and there was this huge round of applause," Parker says. I know a lot of people have been waiting to see this. 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. But Confidence Man is among the first to seriously consider its subjects backstory, how he sprang from the overlapping scenes of New York real estate, city government, and media celebrity. Well be fine.. She was wearing an evil-eye bracelet. His behavior is really what matters on this front. "Can I come back?" "This is a president who is always selling. Her measured stance infuriates Trump's detractors, who harangue her on Twitter for "normalizing" the president. They range from an extraordinarily intimate account of a "sour and dark" Trump berating his staff as "incompetent" to the revelation that Trump called Comey a "nutjob" in an Oval Office meeting with the Russians the day after his dismissal, telling them that Comey's ouster had relieved the pressure of the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign. "No, that's not all I care about. She covered his real estate business when she was a New York tabloid reporter before moving to Politico and later The Times. ", 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. [12], Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration. "There's an enormous personal price that she pays, that people pay when they devote so much of themselves to this," Thrush says. 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. He was telling people he wasn't going to leave. Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. Habermans own confidence man, though overexposed, can seem similarly elusive. Meanwhile, Trump, still revelling in his defeat of Hillary Clinton, cast her as another antagonist, the embodiment of the Failing New York Times. She and the President invited doppelgnger comparisons: the flashy fabulist and the buttoned-down institutionalist locked in each others sights. She leaves it hanging for a momentpanic flashes across his facebut then gives him a bump. And I want to start with, I think, the question a question that is all about what keeps him in the news, and that is his denial of the result of the 2020 election, insisting that he actually won. 75 and the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in the Bronx. (But, she says, Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer portrayal more accurately captures him.) She is a native New Yorker, a competitive advantage given her subject. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? As we were talking, her phone buzzed. I'm having a hard time remembering it." Maggie grew up on the Upper West Side, attending P.S. A reader wondering whether to be surprised by such carelessness, such corruption, gets her answer: yes and no. Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess. Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. President Xi Jinping of China, he has been praising repeatedly since he left office. "And it's not just any mayoralty; it's a late-'80s, early '90s New York mayoralty." "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. It was like watching someone juggle fire while standing on a tightrope. One communications staffer after another told me that they appreciate the fact that she never blindsides them. "What you're seeing with Maggie Haberman is, you're watching one of the greatest people to ever do this job, giving a maximum effort. Oct 9, 2022. There are briefing-room tantrums, incredulous generals, and off-color mutterings. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. No one suggests her male colleagues are "wooing" Trump. "I didn't care for that metaphor," Haberman says. Her son didn't have school after the ceremony, so Haberman brought him with her to a politics meeting at the Times. What Did We Learn About the Georgia Grand Jurys Findings? Even those of us who had covered Trump for years struggled with how to handle the gush of falsehoods that dotted his sentences. But, in person, Haberman appeared nonplussed when I asked how she negotiates the gray areas in which her duty to break news aligns uncomfortably with Trumps interests. 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. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. The book is frank about Trumps cruelty. And I spoke with her about it this afternoon. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times, stops midsentence to . [10], Her reporting style as a member of the White House staff of the Times features in the Liz Garbus documentary series The Fourth Estate. 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. ", Her father, Clyde, says he likes to think that honest journalism is "hardwired" into her. . The phone rang, and she started laughing when she looked at her iPhone display. I just want to go back to the psychiatrist line. Haberman heard rumors of colleagues fielding calls from the magnate during which hed dangle gossip items. Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. 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. Habermans particular way of contextualizing often seems intended to puncture or undermine. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. He is elated. One attendee chastised another for looking at her phone, saying that its light was distracting, as though we were all at a cliffhanger movie. She tried to get work in magazines, but she ended up bartending at Cleopatra's Needle, a jazz club on the Upper West Side frequented by Columbia University students, before eventually landing a job at the Post as a "copy kid" (the new politically correct term at the paper). By Shane Goldmacher,Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPME4VCNmyc&t=79s[/youtube]. Haberman was born on October 30, 1973, in New York City, the daughter of Clyde Haberman, who became a longtime journalist for The New York Times, and Nancy Haberman (ne Spies), a media communications executive at Rubenstein Associates. Habermans Trump is also the Page Six demimondaine who flashed his grin on Sex and the City (Donald Trump, you just dont get more New York than that, Carrie mused) and the developer who perennially stiffed his contractors and enraged the Fifth Avenue lite by destroying two iconic friezes. 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.". When I asked her about these conceptual scoops, she corrected me: Theyre contextual scoops. Context is key to Habermans project. "What do they thinkthat it's going in a secret newspaper?". Through it all, she never missed a beat in our conversation. . 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. I suggested that, once, reporters could vanish behind their facts. 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. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. And, finally, Maggie Haberman, you have said that he may have backed himself into a corner when it comes to whether he's going to run for president again, and, for that reason, he may do it. Part of what makes Haberman one of Trumps foremost contextualizers is her fluency in the worlds that formed him. I don't know if you're familiar with the children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon," but it's about a child named Harold who literally has a purple crayon, and he draws a whole world at night one night. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. A lot of Rudy Giuliani. Haberman is famously formidable. Donald Trump will be basking in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. He clearly, in my reporting and I describe this in the first few days after the November 2020 election, he seemed aware that he had lost in his conversations with a number of aides. He treats everyone like they're his psychiatrist, because he's working everything out in real time. Most recently, just in the last few days, he put out a statement about Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell. She's out with a new book. "She is literally always doing four things," says her friend and former New York Post colleague Annie Karni. How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons. Her expertise wasn't just Trumpit was the Trump psyche. We know he does this. "When we as a culture can't agree on a simple, basic fact setthat is very scary. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/maggie-habermans-new-book-confidence-man-details-trumps-rise-to-prominence, Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute, Rex Tillerson testifies at corruption trial of Trump adviser, Trumps embrace of QAnon raising concerns about future political violence, How Trump may have violated the Presidential Records Act, "confidence man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america". She never hedges her angle to try to protect her access, only to give politicians an unwelcome surprise when they read the story in the morninga practice some journalists follow that Haberman calls "the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. [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. When Haberman interviewed Trump in the Oval Office this April, he was making his usual complaint about how unfair her coverage is. Trumps insistence on taking unnecessary flights kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else, Haberman said. She previously covered the Trump administration and continues to cover Donald Trump and politics in Washington. 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But that's what he said. "In the beginning, you're going to a lot of crime scenes. Haberman had her first byline in 1980, when she was seven years old, writing for the Daily News kids' page about a meeting she had with then-mayor Ed Koch. 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 joined Judy Woodruff to discuss the book. I mean, we know it is not true. As her book tour began, in October, Haberman and I met for an interview in Washington. 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. Trumps performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. He's hitting on her. She was texting, taking calls, e-mailing, and Gchatting with colleagues and sources. Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? 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. She echoed the same thought to me in email dispatches as she and her colleagues furiously traded scoops with the Washington Post last week. When he accused former national security adviser Susan Rice of committing crimes, and defended Fox News' Bill O'Reilly against the sexual harassment claims that would soon end his career at the network? I can't think of anyone whose behavior in typical U.S. political fashion he admires right now. Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour. When Trump gave an undisciplined press conference a few weeks into his presidency, the DC press and pols were comparing it to late-stage Nixon, Thrush says. 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Rosenhas taken issue with Habermans characterization of Trump as a master of media manipulation: If you are a man, and you bite a dog, he wrote, that does not make you a master of anything. But Haberman, who tends to predict that Trump will express his worst impulses and cause maximum damage, told me she believed that he is more often underestimated than overestimated. That [Trump] is unconcerned by that, I think, is the big issue," she says. Glass ceiling: Tishby, an Israeli native who now calls Los Angeles home, joined the podcast to discuss her new book . [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. That must have been a long time ago. According to Hutchinson, Passantinos phone rangit was the Times reporter Maggie Haberman. " She's like my psychiatrist . 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. Kellyanne Conway defended Haberman last April in an interview, calling her "a very hard-working, honest journalist who happens to be a very good person." Significantly, she was accumulating sources who were close to Trump, who knew when he was angry and what he watched on TV and how he could only sleep well in his own bed. The former President once told her that he found air travel spooky.. She has worked for the trifecta of local dailies The Post, The Daily News and, most. I do not want you to come away with that impression. He has called you, essentially, like his psychiatrist, whether you agree with that term or not. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. Dont worry, Passantino allegedly reassured her. The aides and advisers who spoke to Haberman for the book - she writes that she interviewed more than 250 people - offer a damning portrait of a commander in chief who was uninterested in. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. There's that Felix Sater character, who was arrested and, I think, did time, for shoving a broken Martini glass in someone's face . [19] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president". 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. She says they were talking about infrastructure when, "out of nowhere," he raised the This Week laugh. Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. And he is still surrounded by people who don't take him seriously, who he knows do not value him. Last June, Haberman got the tip that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had been fired while she was sitting in the audience at her son's kindergarten graduation. Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. ", 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. 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. There was a lot of duking it out, she said. For Confidence Man, Haberman interviewed Trump three times. This purple frame wouldn't be complete without the intricate temple detail, a distinct touch to help you stand out from the crowd. Her. The books thesisTrumps gonna Trumpis pointedly unglamorous, in keeping with Habermans deflationary assessments of Trumps character. As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, Haberman studied creative writing and child psychology. Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump circa 1997, Jeff Greenfield interviews Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns at the 92nd Street Y. Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Stu Marques, then metro editor of the paper, hired Haberman and oversaw her early training. But no matter what Haberman writes about Trump, he has never frozen her out. This article appears in the July 2017 issue of ELLE. Haberman and The New York Times supposedly disproportionately covered Hillary Clinton's email controversy with many more articles critical of her than of the numerous scandals involving her competitor Donald Trump, including his sexual misconduct allegations,[16][17] with Taylor Link writing: "The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump. 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. During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalisms promise as well as of its failures. ", "Maggie's magic is that she's the dominant reporter on the [White House] beat, and she doesn't even live in Washington. Or is she simply good at her joba job that requires her, at times, to win the trust of the untrustworthy? And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. It would look like him. From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted. She finds the framing of her relationship with the president in romantic terms "facile." Haberman reported and wrote it with her frequent collaborator, Glenn Thrush. [2] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races. He's brought up the moment repeatedly over the past two years, including during Haberman's recent Oval Office interview with him. 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. "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. Passantino, her lawyer at the time, was in a taxi with her on the way to a restaurant. We encounter all the usual suspects: Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort and Hope Hicks. I care about telling a thorough story. She was a fixture on cable news, her face framed by eyeglasses that Trump, who shares her aptitude for pithy description, accused of being "smudged." After Trump rose to political prominence,. She commutes to DC several times a week from her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three young children. [4], Haberman's career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post. Is it the claustrophobia that bothers her? To some, she upheld the tradition that Woodward and Bernstein built; others condemned her failure to criticize Trumps behavior more vocally. [8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014. 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. [7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush". he asks, uncertainly. "Can I join you guys? "Part of it was for her son graduating kindergarten, and part of it was for Maggie for breaking this awesome scoop. And Haberman stresses the racism that has permeated Trumps image since he and his father were sued for housing discrimination in the seventies. Haberman graduated in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and psychology. She said that this notion is just not realistic: in a climate of partisan absolutism, distrust of the media, and the coarsening of norms, the context around the news itself has shifted. During Rudy Giulianis second mayoral term, Haberman covered City Hall, a notoriously cutthroat beat. I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying. 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. Because she enjoyed good access to him on the campaign trail and during his presidency she has been called a "Trump. But I do think that he needs whatever he doesn't have, and whatever that might be in any given moment. He's tweeted, at various points, that she's "third-rate," "sad," and "totally in the Hillary circle of bias," and he almost exclusively refers to the Times as "failing" and "fake news." She suggested a colleague to go on TV in her stead. The tabloid playbook, which Haberman memorized and which Trump enacted, reflected a sense that journalists and subjects could feed off one another, that the whole enterprise might be boiled down to eyes and, eventually, wallets. Some of his aides laughed. "I'm just trying not to get beat," she says. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. The Manhattan district attorneys office is scrutinizing the former presidents role in the hush money payment to a porn star. Maggie Haberman / New York Times: DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record . Include your name, the article headline, and your message. 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. The one who has undoubtedly spent more time covering him than any other is New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has been covering Mr. Trump since the 1990s. The man with the orange hair is making a scene. And we clearly saw it continue in the White House, be it attacking Elijah Cummings in Baltimore, a city that is part of the United States, and Trump was supposed to be the president for all of the United States, whether he was attacking congresswomen of color, whether he was getting into various condemnations, or lack thereof, I should say, of white supremacists, whether he was flirting with the QAnon conspiracy theory. "She grew up in an environment where journalism that was as accurate as humanly possible was practically a religion," he says. he says, holding out his fist. Mediagazer Must-read media news. 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. As for the breaking part, Haberman is more . After Trump rose to political prominence, Haberman became a player in the theatre of the Trump era: an avatar of journalisms promise, but also of its shortcomings. Trump, having tasted the fairy food of the Oval Office, seems similarly stricken, entranced by power and fame that he is unable to forsake. Parts of Confidence Man seem to wrestle with its authors role in amplifying Trumps lies. "Speak of the devil," she said into the phone. An essay by Toni Morrison: The Work You Do, the Person You Are..