CNN's Kaitlan Collins: World Leaders 'Make Fun' Of Trump Granting Press Access (Unlike Biden)

Posted • February 9, 2025: CNN primetime host and White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins appeared on Thursday's Late Night with Seth Meyers and whimsically discussed how world leaders make fun of Trump for dragging them into hour-long news conferences, which is not the norm with the press. She implied how anti-Trump the reporters are by saying it was like "blood in the water" and "total mayhem" when they realized he might call on any reporter, and not read from a list. As Collins explained, it's generally called a "two and two" with world leaders -- two questions from American reporters and two from the country of the world leader. Trump didn't observe that with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. But the tremendous irony of this conversation is that Team Biden held very few press conferences -- including skipping the ones with world leaders. When it happened, he not only had a list of who to call on -- we saw evidence he knew the question that was coming.

Neither of these liberals is going to give Trump any credit for granting more unfettered access to the press. Instead, we get mockery and violent metaphors. Pile on that irony that when Team Biden skipped a Super Bowl interview with Biden -- one of the fluffiest annual interviews -- they chose to let Seth Meyers do a fluffy interview instead. Earlier in the interview, Collins recalled how they didn't have to work weekend under Biden (he typically retreated to Delaware and refused to tell the press who visited). "I remember when Biden first took office in January, The New York Times wrote this story about how quiet the weekends were." The Times called that "historically coy." They don't really care about access or transparency with Democrats. They act like…teammates. There's a different vibe to a Trump press conference. (…)

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