01-27-25 YMS Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency has led to major changes in the atmosphere in the White House briefing room. White House Correspondent JON DECKER has worked with 17 White House press secretaries and every President since Bill Clinton. He is available to discuss how the briefings have evolved.

Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency has led to major changes in the atmosphere in the White House briefing room. White House Correspondent JON DECKER has worked with 17 White House press secretaries and every President since Bill Clinton. He is available to discuss how the briefings have evolved.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael dil Choonha.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You can sense the difference. This is a president who
has hit the ground running major changes in the atmosphere,
and you can feel it in the White House briefing room,
or at least John Decker can anyway, our White House
correspondent joins with us. You have worked with what seventeen
White House Press secretaries and every president since Bill Clinton.

(00:27):
I think it's pretty relevant. How different do things feel? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Very different considering what the last administration was like, as
you know, very few opportunities to ask Joe Biden any questions, Michael,
And in addition to that, just not a lot of
I guess you would call it juice or excitement related
to covering the Biden administration. That is not the case
in terms of covering Donald Trump's administration. Yes, it's only

(00:54):
one week exactly that he's been in office, but you
feel a difference in the brief I recognize that there
are people that are in that briefing room I have
never seen before, Michael. I've never seen that before in
my life, and I think that they're there because they
realize this is the center of the universe right now.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So a lot of people like to compare this to
the position, you know, because you're following Joe Biden, so
an absentee president with a very present president. Or maybe
they compare Donald Trump two point oh to Donald Trump
one point oh. But go back, How does this compare
it to Bush, Clinton, Obama, others that you've covered.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's different. It's different in the sense that there every
day is a news story related to something that Donald
Trump has signed, an executive order, executive action, something that
he's put out on social media, some remarks that he's made,
and interactions with the press corps. And I have seen
that transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush, from

(01:57):
George W. Bush to Barack Obama to Obama to Donald Trump.
This is different, though. This is very different in terms
of all of the executive actions taken by Donald Trump
since he's taken office, very different than even when he
took off his way back in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, and John deckerat White House Correspondent is joining us.
I have come to the conclusion that we are who
we are and right where we are by the choices
we've made or our response sometimes reactions, but hopefully responses
to circumstances out of our control. That's really what shaped
Donald Trump. I mean, his surviving everything his enemies through

(02:37):
at him has created a different person and a different
presidency and potentially their worst nightmare.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
But this really all this artifacturer in some a different dynamic.
Also because this is the second term of Donald Trump,
it's the last term of Donald Trump, and in twenty
twenty six will be turning our attention to the midterm
elections and already looking at head to the twenty twenty
eight presidential election. And as a result, Donald Trump his

(03:04):
team realized they have a very narrow window in terms
of doing all the things that they wish to get
done during these next two years with Congress under Republican control.
Things may change after the midterm elections, and that's why
I think there is this focus to get as much
done during this narrow period of time because things may
change in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I like when things even surprise me, I remember thinking
we better keep reasonable expectations. He probably can only get
one or two things done in the first one hundred days.
In fact, it may even take a full year to
get the two big things done on the border, in
the economy. Now I'm beginning to think he might be
done after the first hundred days. It's everything just to
keep up with the action every day. But these actions

(03:47):
all add up to one thing, John, that I think
it's been a while since you've covered this. Kept promises
and kept promises, whether they follow through and become law
or not, they register very well with voters.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well they do. We'll see, you know, obviously the way
Donald Trump's popularity if it moves up, if it moves
down as a result of what you're referring to. But
keep in mind, all of this is taking place in
just one week's time, and all of this is taking
place without the assent of Congress, even though Republicans control

(04:23):
the House in the Senate, so there is still some
work to get done on the legislative agenda. Sure, and
that's where House Speaker Mike Johnson and John Stone, the
majority leader in the Senate, they come into play. And
you know, Donald Trump meeting with some of those leaders
today at mar A Lago, or as.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
We learned with Pete Heg Sath, maybe even JD. Vance
comes into play. White House Correspondent John Decker is always
great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Thanks mine, miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot,
and we'll miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael
del Churno