MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Reveals How Much More Accessible President Trump Is Than Joe Biden

Although Democratic Party leaders have become accustomed to the fact that the mainstream media is on their side, Joe Biden’s elusive behavior might be enough to get some reporters to sour on the waning administration.

For her part, MSNBC personality Stephanie Ruhle gave President Donald Trump some rare praise in the context of his willingness to take questions from reporters.

As the Daily Caller reported, she recalled calling Trump following his rally at Madison Square Garden in October:

“I wasn’t calling to chit-chat. I said, ‘Mr. President, this is Stephanie Ruhle, you made a lot of comments last night,’ blah-blah-blah. It was not an on-the-record conversation, so I’m not going to get into what he said, but I called for one reason,” Ruhle claimed. “I said, ‘You just said a whole bunch of public things. I’d like to sit down for an interview with you. We’ve got five days before the election.’ So we didn’t get anything, there’s nothing for me to report. I called, I said I want an interview. Obviously, he said no.”

“But my point is, I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely apeshit and you’re like, ‘I can’t believe people know this guy’s phone number,’ but the reverse of that, if I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there’s 50 people between me and that,” Ruhle continued. “I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody, then through Pony Express and a pigeon something might end up in a mailbox near them. And I called DJT to say, ‘Yo, can I get an interview?’ and he told me to go fuck myself, but I still was able to connect with him. Yeah.”

Meanwhile, there are endless examples of Biden either ignoring, avoiding, or berating reporters over the course of the past four years:

Biden walks away from reporters while they shout the real questions they wanted to ask but weren’t allowed to
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— Courtney Holland 🇺🇸 (@hollandcourtney) August 20, 2021

OMG 😂
The press is literally SCREAMING and pleading with Biden to talk to them during his trip, and he walks away 😆

“MR. PRESIDENT PLEEEASE! WE HAVEN’T HEARD FROM YOU ALL TRIP! MR, PRESSSSIIIDEEENNNNTTTTT!!!😂🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/QTCRZAKnHv

— Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) November 19, 2024

‘You be quiet’ Biden tells reporter asking about Putin’s threat of war with US https://t.co/N53CqtCcAz pic.twitter.com/9zQ3tBYL4K

— New York Post (@nypost) September 14, 2024

REPORTER: "Why is it that [Biden] is avoiding reporters?"

KJP: "I think we have shown in the last 4 years bringing back the norms of engaging with all of you."

REPORTER: "Do you consider it upholding norms for the president to basically not engage the press in at least 2… pic.twitter.com/U2ZcgrZYTd

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 6, 2024

Even CNN acknowledged earlier this year that reporters were livid after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump:

They’re frustrated. Some feel the White House misled the press before President Joe Biden’s stumbling performance at last month’s CNN presidential debate. Others have been exasperated by the White House’s response since then to questions about the president’s health, often leading to follow-ups and clarifications from the administration on otherwise straightforward questions. And nearly all of the White House correspondents who spoke to CNN for this report felt the president should have held a press conference with reporters in the immediate aftermath of the debate.

Here’s a clip of Ruhle’s recent remarks: