David Folkenflik
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first heard Jul 2026
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On our weekly politics series, If You Can Keep It, the focus isn't the horse race, but the stakes.
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Pleasure.
Well, I would say it was civil, but it was pretty surreal.
Well, first, let me say there were folks from NPR at the dinner, and I don't speak for NPR on this.
I'm talking to you, Scott, as your media critic this morning.
I would say from a Trump standpoint, he was there at the lectern for over an hour giving a
a fair amount of one liners going after his critics, the people who are his political opponents, Democrats, potential replacements for the next presidential race, people he sees as enemies, people in the press.
You know, anytime the guy's in front of a microphone, he's going to indulge in these instincts.
From my perspective, somebody who thinks about comedy, he sounded a lot like Don Rickles channeled by Christopher Walken.
But these were jokes by and large that weren't landing.
I mean,
People were sitting stone faced in front of it.
There wasn't a lot of mirth and laughter that night, even though it's supposed to be a night where, yes, he pokes fun at everybody else.
But a president, any president, you know, goes after himself as well in the spirit of acknowledging the press's job is to kind of hold him accountable.
Well, look, you know, it was, as I said, surreal.
You saw the Wall Street Journal being honored for stories breaking revelations of Trump's contribution to a birthday book for the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein two decades ago.
You know, that was the occasion for Trump to personally sue the Wall Street Journal in a multibillion dollar suit over that story.
He kind of grimaced and smirked and nonetheless shook the hands of the reporters.
Tyler Pager of The New York Times said,
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