This presidency has thrown open the doors to the press room — and then some.
According to a Fox News report, President Trump has taken part in more than 430 open press events since returning to the White House, producing an astonishing 2.4 million transcribed words in exchanges with reporters.
The White House calls it unprecedented access. And it’s hard to argue otherwise.
“President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in American history,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Huston told Fox News Digital. She pointed to his willingness to take unrestricted questions from legacy media while also communicating directly with the public through TRUTH Social, often daily and often unfiltered.
The result, Huston said, is something rare in modern politics: a president whose relationship with the public is direct, unscripted, and unmistakably his own.
The contrast with the previous administration is stark.
Long silences and visible press frustration marked President Biden’s first year. He waited more than two months to hold his first press conference — the longest delay in a century, according to The Washington Post, stretching back to Calvin Coolidge, the famously taciturn “Silent Cal.”
Trump, by contrast, talks. And keeps talking.
The White House Stenographer’s Office reports that as of Monday, it had logged 2.4 million words from Trump’s open press events alone. The White House translated the figure into literary terms: the equivalent of 4.1 copies of War and Peace, 31 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, or 22 Art of the Deal volumes.
The events themselves are frequent and varied.
Trump has participated in 156 press sprays, 13 general gaggles, 13 press conferences, 32 Marine One gaggles, 30 gaggles outside Air Force One, 41 gaggles aboard the presidential plane, and three formal press briefings.
Those press sprays — the informal moments when cameras roll during executive order signings, bilateral meetings, and roundtables — generated 128 of the 292 questions Trump answered in open press settings.
And sometimes, he goes long.
Several of Trump’s sessions stretched well beyond an hour, including a 95-minute October roundtable on Antifa and a series of extended Cabinet meetings that turned into freewheeling press marathons.
In an era of managed appearances and scripted avoidance, this White House has chosen exposure.
The microphones are on.
The cameras are rolling.
And the president keeps answering.
"President Trump’s return to the White House has brought a surge in media access following the Biden administration, with hundreds of direct exchanges between a press corps he frequently blasts as 'fake news' and a president who rarely ducks a question."https://t.co/3IR1dX4eif
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) December 11, 2025
