Please check your inbox to confirm. Trump wants what she can give him access toa kind of status he's always craved in a newspaper that, she says, "holds an enormously large place in his imagination." Is this something he believes to be true, or what? Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The subjects may have primed her for the task of deciphering Trump; her classmates, she said, talked a lot about magical thinking. Her first job in journalism was at the Post, which sent her to crime scenes, trials, hospitals (to document V.I.P. "You're going to bring this up every time, aren't you?" Haberman says she'd had no interest in journalism up to this point. Photograph by Jeanette Spicer for The New Yorker, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. She catches herself. She was accused of skewing her coverage in exchange for access (a claim she rejects)these allegations sometimes came from the same critics who bristled at her papers studious impartiality. "No, that's not all I care about. Maggie Haberman Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Yes, Haberman does a decent job laying out the business life of DJT, as seen thru her decidedly inhospitable glasses. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Her daughter was home sick from school with a fever. 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. 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. 2023 Getty Images. Intense is one of the words friends and colleagues most often use to describe her. He stands looking down at her, swaying a little, slightly walleyed, but he still has a big-man swagger. During Rudy Giulianis second mayoral term, Haberman covered City Hall, a notoriously cutthroat beat. He is behaving in a racist way. Because she was literally talking to 16 people within our campaign at the same time.". But no matter what Haberman writes about Trump, he has never frozen her out. Are you doing an interview?" Habermans assessment was grimmer. Just as he didn't back down after being accused of sexual assault, she says he is unlikely to walk away from this fight or resign. he yelps like a sixth grader sent our way on a dare, and dashes off. I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying. "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?' "She's got it with her at all times," says her husband, Dareh Gregorian. Well, we know that he I mean, and you have written this. [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? During the Trump Presidency, Habermans output and name recognition placed her at the center of debates over how journalists should cover his Administration. 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In late April, Haberman spoke on (yet another) panel, this one at the 92nd Street Y, with her colleague Alex Burns. He was telling people he wasn't going to leave. Parts of Confidence Man seem to wrestle with its authors role in amplifying Trumps lies. Trump Tried to Get Maggie Haberman's Phone Records: Politico Her multitasking and compartmentalizing, which the press has covered tirelessly, almost seem like necessary steps in the quarantining of orderindividual and psychic as well as shared and politicalfrom chaos. And it's just hard to know how much is that vs. he's convinced himself of this. A Conversation with Maggie Haberman, Trump's Favorite Foe [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. Theyre outraged by what were covering, and they dont understand why its not having the effect it should. 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. Maggie Haberman on Donald Trump: "He saw the presidency as the ultimate 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 . 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". "There has been a very protracted shocked stage in Washington, and I think people have to move past that. To some, she upheld the tradition that Woodward and Bernstein built; others condemned her failure to criticize Trumps behavior more vocally. 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. The Times hired her to cover the 2016 election five months before Donald Trump declared his first Presidential campaign. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. The man is, it appears, too drunk to be able to discern if she's flirting or annoyed. When Haberman demurs, politely but without apology, he is momentarily stumped. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. Trumps insistence on taking unnecessary flights kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else, Haberman said. This past November, by the end of the candidates meandering, hour-long campaign announcement, she had tweeted about the speech more than twenty times. She's so well-sourced and so well-connected that she doesn't need to," Karni says. The phone buzzed again. When Haberman interviewed Trump in the Oval Office this April, he was making his usual complaint about how unfair her coverage is. It made me more able to take a punch. This worlda soap opera of excess and corruption playing non-stop through the New York of the ninetieswas Trumps, too. Like Kane in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Trump was a swaggering . That [Trump] is unconcerned by that, I think, is the big issue," she says. "Can I join you guys? We know he does this. 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 while there are still hard feelings toward the Times from Hillary Clinton operatives and votersthey complain that the paper obsessed over Clinton's e-mail scandal but failed to give commensurate ink to Trump's ties to Russia and potential conflicts of interest, among other subjectsmultiple people I spoke to who worked for Clinton are careful to draw a distinction between Haberman and the institution of the Times. Haberman countered that such soap operas have been happening for years. In her work, Trumps actions dont appear special or mysterious; they emerge as a clear consequence of his background. "Maggie's whole career has been about grabbing people by the lapels," Burns says. "So much of his approach is bending others to the way he sees things," she says. Todays press culture thrusts reporters onstage, parsing their judgments and perspectives as part of a ceaseless Twitter meta-drama about journalistic integrity. It's titled "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.". She commutes to DC several times a week from her home in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three young children. A reader wondering whether to be surprised by such carelessness, such corruption, gets her answer: yes and no. Maggie Haberman, thank you, the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other. Her expertise wasn't just Trumpit was the Trump psyche. (One of her refrains is I was shocked but not surprised.) She mounts a similar argument about Trump in her recent book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. The book presents Trump as a bullshit artist whose grand theme is his own greatness. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. 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. The phone rang, and she started laughing when she looked at her iPhone display. President Xi Jinping of China, he has been praising repeatedly since he left office. 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. Questions about her process elicited similarly guarded answers. She has worked for the trifecta of local dailies The Post, The Daily News and, most. 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. "This is a president who is always selling. Habermans own sense of Trumps spooky potency continues to shape her coverage. She wore an iteration of her usual uniform: black pants, black jacket, reddish-pink blouse, and an air of bone-crushing fatigue. Its the gesture of a writer who knows that her unsentimental view of the President anchors her credibility. ", 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. I think his niece is right. ", 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. As for the breaking part, Haberman is more . 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. She goes on to talk about a fragile ego that has to be constantly fed and so on. During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalisms promise as well as of its failures. There are briefing-room tantrums, incredulous generals, and off-color mutterings. I think that theres a misunderstanding among certain aspects of our readership about what it is we do, she said. "This is a symbiotic relationship," says an administration official. I also think he's extremely suggestible and I think he's extremely paranoid. All rights reserved. Maggie Haberman Profile - How Maggie Haberman Covers Donald Trump - ELLE 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 . But she also acknowledges Trumps seductiveness, recognizing that he was mesmerizing to watch, his speech fast and cocky and self-assured, with the ability to be both funny and cutting, both charming and derisive, often in the same sentence. Trumps gestures, Haberman insisted, have a metaphysical hollowness. He admires autocrats in other countries. "You can change her mind," Madden says. . 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 . She was also on her laptop. 'It's My Curse and My Salvation': Trump's Most Famous Chronicler Opens 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). 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. Sister Sites: Techmeme Tech news essentials. Haberman joined Judy Woodruff to discuss the book. 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. 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. Hicks echoed Conway, e-mailing me a few days later that Haberman was "a true professional. 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. You're going to see if people were killed," Marques says. Journalists have become part of the story in the Trump administration, enablers and heroes of a nonstop political and constitutional soap opera, and last year Haberman was the most widely read journalist at the Times, according to its analytics. Since 2015, Habermans career has revolved around the most untrustworthy man in national politics. 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.". Former President Donald Trump said reporter Maggie Haberman was like his "psychiatrist" during one of their interviews, according to Haberman's new book. 1996 - 2023 NewsHour Productions LLC. "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. 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. He said that to me in one of our interviews. One communications staffer after another told me that they appreciate the fact that she never blindsides them. Search instead in. Pictures of the incident show Haberman talking nonstop as an uncharacteristically silent Koch stares at her, slightly astonished. She was on her phone. But, if he does, what do you think a second Donald Trump presidency term would look like? The New York Times ' Maggie Haberman raised the possibility that former President Donald Trump might not run for office again despite many political observers considering it a foregone. Haberman was learning the same arthow to "punch through" in a daily news cycle, as New York Times political reporter and frequent collaborator Alexander Burns puts it. None of this is to say that the Habermans and Trumps were showing up at the same dinner parties, but Manhattan can be a provincial place, among a certain inside crowd. [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. Maggie Haberman, thank you so much for joining us. My job, she said, is to provide as much information on a topic as possible that is significant and relevant and related to events. What a President does, she noted, will always get coverage. "The Triborough and Empire State view of Trump is very different from the national view of Trump," she points out. I don't think he figured the office out. 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." I was somewhat surprised to see that, Haberman said when I asked her about the conversation, characterizing her call as routine. Shortly after Hutchinsons deposition, she notes, the Times published a story on the January 6th committees progress that included the news that at least one witness was willing to testify that Trump had approved of rioters chanting Hang Mike Pence and that Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, had burned documents in a fireplace. A lot of people would let it go, but Haberman signals to the hostess. Some of his aides laughed. [12], Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration. Haberman was not the only reporter to see the underlying logic in the daily bedlam emanating from Washington. But that's what he said. I'm having a hard time remembering it." And this is one of the things that makes establishing a baseline of discernible truth around him so incredibly hard. It was like watching someone juggle fire while standing on a tightrope. 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 says, holding out his fist. The man with the orange hair is making a scene. She is not a fan of SNL's impression of Kellyanne Conway as a psychopathic fame whore. 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. And I'm like, This is total bullshit, this is not a real person, nobody is this way," Thrush recalls. 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. "Can I come back?" By Shane Goldmacher,Michael C. Bender and Maggie Haberman. ", "Maggie's magic is that she's the dominant reporter on the [White House] beat, and she doesn't even live in Washington. Like, floating in the sky.". I mean, does he just create a different factual universe? "I'm really not surprised. Amazingly detailed scenes here, including Jeffrey Clark, whose devices were recently seized by federal officials, holding court at an event in the spring Maggie Haberman on Twitter: ">>>>" / Twitter 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. But I do think that he needs whatever he doesn't have, and whatever that might be in any given moment. By Damon Winter/The New York Times . [9], Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. births and plastic surgeries), and the funerals of firefighters and civic luminaries. "The news was something my dad did." "His whole thing has always been to be accepted among the New York elites, whom he sort of preemptively sneers atthat thing that people do when they are not really sure if they will be completely validated, where they push away people whose approval they are seeking. Greenfield introduced Haberman by saying that he couldn't remember a reporter having established a relationship with a president quite like hers with Trump. Hutchinson had just finished her third deposition with the committee. Is there anyone in political life he truly admires? I think, to quote someone who knew him years ago who said this to me a couple of months back, a second Trump presidency would be very heavily driven by spite. 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). 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. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, has been covering Donald Trump since the 1990s. Because Haberman has known Trump for so long she has been derided as a schill. Do you think he knows what's real and what isn't? ", Haberman is growing weary of the DC establishment's seeming inability to metabolize the president's personality. 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. "Short fiction, always somewhat curiously resembling my own life," she says. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Brea 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. Exclusive: See the Trump toilet photos that he denies ever existed - Axios . 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. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, Haberman studied creative writing and child psychology. She said that she had never approved of anything Trump had doneevaluating him is not her job. But my question to you is, what do you think he cares about the most or whom? Born to a publicist and a newspaperman, she grew up in the kind of privileged Manhattan set that Trump spent his early days envying. Another evil eye was in her pocket. 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. Trump conceded this was true and the story was about an "8. 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. And Haberman stresses the racism that has permeated Trumps image since he and his father were sued for housing discrimination in the seventies. Thats what people have really struggled to understand., Articles about Haberman like to say that the mother of three, who will turn fifty this October, desperately needs a break. And I spoke with her about it this afternoon. [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. 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. "She is literally always doing four things," says her friend and former New York Post colleague Annie Karni. 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