She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. By Shane Goldmacher,Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman. There are briefing-room tantrums, incredulous generals, and off-color mutterings. She was thinking aloud about her scheduleshe doesn't keep an actual calendar, not on paper, not on her phone; it's all in her head. And she clearly knows the family dynamic and knows him and all of these family stories very, very well, better than anyone. And he is still surrounded by people who don't take him seriously, who he knows do not value him. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. [8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014. he asks, uncertainly. 2023 Cond Nast. [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. 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 . Yes, Haberman does a decent job laying out the business life of DJT, as seen thru her decidedly inhospitable glasses. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. He has called you, essentially, like his psychiatrist, whether you agree with that term or not. She says she does most of her work from her car, shuttling her kids around, dashing between the office in Times Square and her apartment. She wore an iteration of her usual uniform: black pants, black jacket, reddish-pink blouse, and an air of bone-crushing fatigue. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. 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.. ", Her father, Clyde, says he likes to think that honest journalism is "hardwired" into her. I just wanted to make the point that we were engaged in some revisionist history. "I do not think he is enjoying the job particularly, and that is based on reporting," she says. By Damon Winter/The New York Times . She turned the phone over. Former President Donald Trump said reporter Maggie Haberman was like his "psychiatrist" during one of their interviews, according to Haberman's new book. 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? Clyde covered Trump very sporadically in the 1980s and '90s. "This is a very precarious moment, in terms of what anyone can believe in. She is not a fan of SNL's impression of Kellyanne Conway as a psychopathic fame whore. Maggie Haberman, Author, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America": It's a really good question, Judy. And since President Trump fired FBI director James Comey, Haberman has been on the frontlines of the nonstop news bombshells that have been lobbed, bylining or credited with a reporting assist on around two dozen stories in two weeks. He is elated. There is also the question of what prolonged exposure to Trumpa man who profanes and corrupts everything he toucheshas done to Haberman herself. Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. He's called him a weakling. [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. "You're pretty!" (The first time she quoted Trump in a piece was in 2006: "Real-estate mogul Donald Trump talked up Clinton as the next president in Florida on Friday night, reportedly saying at a state GOP fund-raiser, 'She's a brilliant woman and she's going to be a very, very formidable candidate. Absolutely I think she can win, especially if the war's still going on.' She's perfectly willing to walk like a redcoat into the middle of the field and let everyone know she's there because she's going to get [her story]," says Kevin Madden, a Republican communications veteran who has worked for John Boehner, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. Is she, in fact, friendly to Trumps people? 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. Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. Do you think, at his core, that he is racist? [23], In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at the Times and The Washington Post),[24] the individual Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence award from the White House Correspondents' Association,[25] and the Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year from the Newswomen's Club of New York. "Maggie doesn't camouflage. Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. He was constantly looking for a relationship with him in the past and kept it going out of office still, this admiration. From Eisenhower to Biden, questions of age have persisted. 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. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMj21lPeAEk&t=345s[/youtube], It was at City Hall that she met Thrush, who was working at the New York tabloid Newsday. [13] In March 2016 Haberman, along with New York Times reporter David E. Sanger, questioned Trump in an interview, "Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views," during which he "agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might be summed up as 'America First'". The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Hutchinson asked her counsel not to take the call. The tale concerns a boy named Harold who goes for a walk in the evening and draws things from his imagination, including an entire city, with his enchanted crayon. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. Ventura headset in 2024, smart glasses with a display and a "neural interface" smartwatch in 2025, and AR glasses in 2027 . By Sean Piccoli,Jonah E. Bromwich,Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum. 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 Trumps advisers and their connections to Russia. I mean, we know it is not true. [2] They have three children and live in Brooklyn. ", [youtube ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPME4VCNmyc&t=79s[/youtube]. A lot of people would let it go, but Haberman signals to the hostess. By 1999, Marques put Haberman on the City Hall beat, where she covered then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump friend. This article appears in the July 2017 issue of ELLE. Portions of the electorate learned to associate her with distressing updates about the country. During the Trump Presidency, Habermans output and name recognition placed her at the center of debates over how journalists should cover his Administration. Maggie Haberman, political corespondent for The New York Times, reporting at a Bernie Sanders rally at Hunter's Point South Park in New York, April 18, 2016. Maggie grew up on the Upper West Side, attending P.S. 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. 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. And, again, I could name many others. "I didn't care for that metaphor," Haberman says. Haberman did not let it slide. 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. "It's like she's in the building, but she's not even in the city. "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. "No, that's not all I care about. "What do they thinkthat it's going in a secret newspaper?". Adds Haberman, "Some Ed Koch. "I love being with her," he says. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. 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. The debate is set for August, in the same city that will host the partys 2024 convention. 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. So, what exactly is in his heart, I think, becomes irrelevant. 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. A reader wondering whether to be surprised by such carelessness, such corruption, gets her answer: yes and no. Haberman graduated in 1996 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied creative writing and psychology. ", Trump has also sent her his famous press clippings with Sharpie notes on them, mostly with criticisms, but at least once with praise. I just have totems, she said, hoarsely, because her press tour had already begun and she was losing her voice. 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. "That's all I care about." Other commentators, reacting to Rupert Murdochs withdrawal of support and the strong Democratic showing in the midterms, were beginning to treat Trump like a political has-been. 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. 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 . I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying. Donald Trump will be basking in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. Would she tell the man to "stop screaming"? Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to set aside any claims of executive privilege that former Vice President Mike Pence might raise to avoid answering questions. She was the dominant Trump reporter on the campaign, and she didn't travel with him. " The next time Haberman wrote about him was in 2009"Terror Tent Down at Camp Trump" was the headlinewhen Trump allowed Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi to pitch a Bedouin-style tent on the lawn of his estate in Bedford, New York.). These words were spoken in 2008 by an unlikely film critic named Donald Trump. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. And I think that the people who he would put into key jobs would be very alarming to a number of people across Washington. I think his niece is right. He is very aware that, if you repeat something over and over again, it can turn it into something real. "I'm wearing a sweatshirt, and my hair is in a bun," she told the producer. 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. Her. Well be fine.. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. What HBOs Chernobyl got right, and what it got terribly wrong. "This is a president who is always selling. There was a lot of duking it out, she said. She finds the framing of her relationship with the president in romantic terms "facile." In those days, the future president was a fixture in Page Six, the Post's gossip column. 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. James Carville wanted her to come to Louisiana to talk to a class, but her kids were about to go on school vacation. Her tweets frequently numbered more than a hundred and forty in twenty-four hours. And somewhat in connection with that, there's a long list of people he's belittled, people who've been loyal to him, like Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, Kevin McCarthy. And he makes that very clear. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. "If you're going to come at her," says a Democratic operative, "you've got to come correct. 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. Glass ceiling: Tishby, an Israeli native who now calls Los Angeles home, joined the podcast to discuss her new book . She had a story that was about to go live on nytimes.com. This article appears in the July 2017 issue of ELLE.. I don't believe that he learned how to be president more astutely. Because she enjoyed good access to him on the campaign trail and during his presidency she has been called a "Trump. 24/7 Customer . 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. Some of his aides laughed. During Rudy Giulianis second mayoral term, Haberman covered City Hall, a notoriously cutthroat beat. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. Are you doing an interview?" "I used to really cringe at the way my colleagues would talk to spokespeople," she said. [7] In 2010, Haberman was hired by Politico as a senior reporter. 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. She was on her phone. His behavior is really what matters on this front. Trump frequently complains about Haberman's coverage. Habermans assessment was grimmer. 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. "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. Like, Maggies friendly to us. 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. 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. (The Police Athletic League, a cause beloved by the former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, profited handsomely from his shamelessness, Haberman writes.) I also think he's extremely suggestible and I think he's extremely paranoid. Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. In a statement to The Wrap's Andi Ortiz, a Times spokesperson said, "Maggie Haberman took leave from The Times to write her book. "She came into the Page One conference room, and there was this huge round of applause," Parker says. 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 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. Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. We encounter all the usual suspects: Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway and Paul Manafort and Hope Hicks. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Haberman argued that she did not learn this until after Joe Biden took office. Haberman, a White House correspondent for . President Xi Jinping of China, he has been praising repeatedly since he left office. 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. The quick-hit rhythm that Trump and Haberman were both fine-tuning teed them up perfectly for today's Twitter-paced news environment. But I do think that he needs whatever he doesn't have, and whatever that might be in any given moment. One attendee chastised another for looking at her phone, saying that its light was distracting, as though we were all at a cliffhanger movie. Congratulations on the book. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. 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. At first Thrush didn't like her, mistaking her voraciousness for shtick. As Twitter blew up as Trump compounded the backlash against Comey's dismissal with an incredible series of missteps, Haberman shot out an exasperated tweet of her own: "What is amazing is capacity of people who watched the campaign to be surprised by what they are seeing. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. I'm quoting now Mary Trump, his niece, who, among other things, said that she thinks he is he has what she calls narcissistic personality disorder. "She's like Michael Corleone," Thrush says, "sucked into the family business." 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. Her new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America," chronicles where he came from and how his experiences in New York City impact our nation's politics today. He gives off a hint of reality TVwith his mirages, his come-ons, his brazenness, his feintsand a dash of the Devil. "Short fiction, always somewhat curiously resembling my own life," she says. She glanced at it, then apologized. He mentioned Nixon unprompted in one of our interviews. She doesn't see any climactic resolution to the Trump saga coming anytime soon. He confesses that he is drawn to her, like a moth to a flame. Trumps insistence on taking unnecessary flights kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else, Haberman said. Maggie Haberman / New York Times: DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record . Clyde and Nancy met at the tabloid New York PostClyde was a metro reporter there, and Nancy was a "copy boy" (what the Post called its entry-level cub reporters back then). Its the crashing. Trump, apparently, does not get fazed by planes: on Air Force One, Haberman said, hed sometimes continue talking during rocky landings, while reporters slid around on their seats. "Every moment cannot be, 'Wow! 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.
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