‘Trump Here. R
Who’s Calling?’ When reporters dial the president, he often picks up.
eporters who call president donald trump on his personal cellphone often get an answer — and an interview — from the leader of the free world on the spot. Paradoxically, it’s the same president who popularized the term
“fake news” and has battled against the press for years on multiple fronts. On the day of the June 21 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump gave
phone interviews to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, Kristen Welker at NBC News, Reuters’ Steve Holland, Axios’ Barak Ravid, and both Bret Baier and Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel, according to an independent database of the president’s media appearances. The next day, Trump spoke with
Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal — for all of 38 seconds, Dawsey noted — enabling the report- er to include a fresh presidential quote in the newspaper’s story about the bombing. “I find it utterly remarkable,” said
Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to President George W. Bush. “It’s classic Trump. It defies tradition.” This spring, when he was denied
an interview with Trump for an Atlantic magazine cover story, Michael Scherer dialed Trump’s number on a Saturday morning. “Who’s calling?” Trump answered. When the reporter identified himself,
Trump chided him for past stories he’d written. But he didn’t hang up. Scherer explained the story he was doing. Trump answered his questions
and was gracious about it, he said. “The president likes speaking,” he said. “He wants to share his story. I
think he feels that the more he shares his story, the better off he is. He just has a totally different approach to the press than any president I’ve covered.” Asked about the calls, Steven Cheung, White House communications
director, said, “The American people are better served because President Trump engages with the press on a daily basis.”
Biden Holdovers Dig In F
ormer President Joe Biden stacked the government with Democrats, including making some lame-duck period appointments in key positions, and those Donald Trump is attempting to cast off are not going away without fights, whether they expect to win or not, reports Politico. Biden holdovers heading up federal
Fed Boss Won’t Budge
F
ederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated the U.S. central bank plans to
“wait and learn more” about the impact of tariffs on inflation before lowering interest rates, again setting aside President Donald Trump’s demands for immediate and deep rate cuts. “We’re simply taking some time,” Powell said
at a central bank gathering in June in Portugal, a day after Trump sent him a handwritten missive noting how low other central banks had cut rates and suggesting the U.S. needed to move. “As long as the U.S. economy is in solid
shape, we think that the prudent thing to do is to wait and learn more and see what those effects might be,” Powell said.
Robots Running Amazon
W
ith more than 1 million robots at its warehouses, Amazon’s global workforce
of 1.56 million people is on the verge of being outnumbered by the machines, The Wall Street Journal reports. The e-commerce giant, a bellwether for
companies automating work, is planning to ramp up its use of robots further once they are equipped with artificial intelligence, which will enable them to respond to verbal commands. Although Amazon is
deploying more robots, Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics, maintains that the company will continue to need workers. The robots are merely meant to help Amazon manage heavy staff turnover, reduce menial tasks, and make workers’ jobs easier — not to replace people, Brady said.
agencies have managed to remain in positions in defiance of the president’s efforts to remove them, putting in legal challenges that tie up their removal even if “ultimately, the White House appears poised to win the fight,” according to the report. Among the defiant Democrats are three fired members of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) that oversees PBS and NPR, including Diane Kaplan, Tom Rothman, and Laura Gore Ross. Also hanging on is Rochelle Garza, Biden-
appointed chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission fired in May, and two Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) whom Trump sought to remove in January.
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