The Morning Jolt, June 7: “The President Needs to Stop Complaining.”
[Biden] doesn’t do many off-the-record chats with reporters. So the traveling White House press corps was surprised and intrigued when the president dropped by Air Force One’s press section for one such session with them during a recent trip to the West Coast.
But Biden wasn’t just there to field questions. He had his own message to deliver. According to multiple people familiar with the off-the-record session, he used much of his time with reporters to criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration.
There is growing frustration by the president and his family that he is not receiving the kind of generally more positive coverage they believe he deserves — that too often attention is focused on staff turnover and poor poll numbers and not a robust jobs market and America’s relatively strong economic recovery.
Whine, whine, whine. Complain, complain, complain. The economy is doing so great, as long as you don’t look at the inflation rate being the highest in four decades and gasoline is averaging $4.97 per gallon nationally. It’s all just so unfair, how Biden is doing such a gangbusters job, and that notoriously anti-Democratic, pro-Republican White House press corps just won’t give him a break.