Trump Talks to Reporters on His Phone All the Time. After One Call, Biden Aides Disconnected His

ForAmerica
Jul 9
2 min read

Almost every Washington reporter of note has President Donald Trump's phone number.

They will often call him directly for comment, and he will give it to them. Sometimes Trump even calls them first.

But when a reporter called President Joe Biden once, his aides immediately disconnected his phone.

In fact, Biden aides also changed his number and yelled at The New York Times reporter who called him.

This new information comes from the new book 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and Washington Post correspondent Isaac Arnsdorf.

From Mediate, "According to the book, Pager obtained Biden’s personal number and called him directly on March 25, and the former president picked up. 'Biden said he would be willing to speak for this book the next day,' the authors write. The following morning, he again answered the call, briefly offering scathing views of the open weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term.

'I don’t see anything he’s done that’s been productive,' Biden said."

Biden was also asked if he might leave the 2024 presidential race, “No, not now. I don’t spend a lot of time on regrets.”

That's when Team Biden swooped into action.

“'After the first call,' the authors report, 'furious Biden aides repeatedly called and texted [Pager].'

Once the second, even shorter call had taken place, aides stepped in decisively, blocking the journalist’s number and, within 48 hours, cutting off Biden’s line entirely. Those who tried to reach the former president after that were met with a Verizon recording: 'The number you dialed has been changed, disconnected, or is no longer in service,'" Mediate reported.

Compare this with how Trump talks to reporters by phone directly all the time.

Here is just one example. After the U.S. strike on Iran last month, Trump spoke to six reporters via phone: ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, NBC News’ Kristen Welker, Reuters’ Steve Holland, Axios’ Barak Ravid and Fox News' Bret Baier and Sean Hannity.

A direct line to press members that is apparently also a two-way street. Who does that? What president does that?

Donald Trump does.

Again, this is nothing unusual for him, even if it might not be the norm for presidents in general. But Trump has always been a different kind of president.

So was Joe Biden. One that should have never been president.

Something that becomes truer, the more we learn.