Jonathan Swan
speaker
362 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Jonathan Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Fresh Air · Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House · 15 Jul 2026
podcast
And that's essentially what he's trying to create at the White House.
He's gilded almost every corner of the Oval Office.
You walk in, it's like the inside of a jewelry box.
It just glows with gold all around you.
He's building this grand ballroom.
We have in the book that he seemed to almost be competing with Melania as to who had the better bedroom.
They have separate bedrooms and he was taking objects that she had placed in the centre hall of the residence and putting them in his bedroom.
You know, he's long had a taste for gold, but this time around he's just put his own stamp on the White House in a way that he didn't do in the first term.
Yeah, an interview with Trump requires an enormous amount of preparation if you want to hope to come out of it with any level of success.
He's a really difficult interview for all the reasons you described.
He's an overwhelming presence, and you are confronted with a sort of tidal wave of words.
Many of the words and the sentences are...
detached from reality or completely false.
And you have to make judgments in real time about what you let go.
You can't fact-check everything.
You can pick your moments.
But I saw my role as the representative of the people in that chair.
You're the one who's lucky enough to be sitting in that chair interviewing the President of the United States.
What would regular people want?
to know and want me to do in that situation.
Showing 281–300 of 362 · page 15 of 19
← Previous
Next →