Trump Dwarfing Biden In Media Accessibility Since Returning To White House

President Donald Trump has already become one of the “most accessible” presidents in modern history after former President Joe Biden had been largely hidden from the press, according to numbers calculated by Politico.

Trump has participated in media appearances on 111 of the 138 days he has been back in office, giving him an 80% media hit rate, according to Politico Playbook. The president’s easy accessibility is a stark contrast from Biden, who held the fewest number of press conferences in modern times and had been hidden from the press by his aides to hide his cognitive decline, according to “Original Sin,” a book written by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.

Trump has noticeably taken a long list of questions from reporters at a variety of different outlets. In February, he responded to 1,009 questions from journalists in his first month in office, which was seven times the amount of questions answered by Biden in that same period.

The president has held 5 press conferences in the past four months of his second term, while Biden held 4 in his final full year in office, according to the American Presidency Project. Biden’s average number of press conferences add up to 9.25 per year, while most presidents have held over 20 per year.

During the few times Biden held a press conference, his aides handed him notecards that instructed