President Donald Trump is outpacing former President Joe Biden by a huge amount when it comes to availability to the press. T
rump has participated in 433 open press events during his first year back in the White House, a new standard for presidential media access.
The data, compiled by the White House Stenographer’s Office and provided to Fox News, shows stenographers transcribed 2.4 million words from Trump’s press interactions in his first year in office.
“President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in American history,” White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston told Fox News. “President Trump takes unrestricted questions from the legacy media and posts directly from his Truth Social account on the most important issues facing our nation every single day. The American people have never had a more direct and authentic relationship with a president of the United States than they have with President Trump.”
Trump’s press events included 156 press sprays, 13 general gaggles, 13 press conferences, 32 Marine One gaggles, 30 gaggles outside Air Force One, 41 gaggles while on the presidential plane, and three formal press briefings.
The data does not include quick exchanges, such as Trump answering a shouted question while greeting a foreign leader.
Trump averaged nearly 2 meetings with the media per workday in his first 100 days back in office, compared to Biden’s 1.3 interactions per workday during the same period. Former President Barack Obama averaged 1.1 media interactions per workday in his first 100 days, as did former President George W. Bush.
“With an Average of 1.9 Press Sessions a Day, President Trump in 2025 Leads the Recent Presidential Pack Answering Reporters’ Queries. Not only did President Trump have more press interchanges than his predecessors during his first hundred days, but his regularly televised question-and-answer sessions with reporters caught the public’s attention,” the White House Transition Project reported.
The contrast with Biden is stark.
Over his full four-year term, Biden held just 37 press conferences, 679 informal question-and-answer sessions, and 151 interviews. In his first year, Biden held only 10 press conferences — including joint appearances with foreign leaders.
Biden conducted just 22 press interviews in his first year, a total dwarfed by the 92 interviews Trump gave and the 156 Obama participated in during their respective first years as president.
The Associated Press reported in late 2021 that Biden held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors, as well as fewer media interviews than any recent president.
Trump is known for not holding back when interacting with the media, frequently calling out reporters and battling “fake news” before rolling to the next question during his numerous events.