President Donald Trump had more frequent exchanges with reporters during his first 100 days in office than any of his six predecessors, a study has found.
Trump's 129 interactions through news conferences or interviews averaged nearly two each workday, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project . Trump exceeded the pace of his first term in 2017, when he had 89 such meetings. The study was released Thursday.
President Bill Clinton was the only other president to hit triple figures during his first 100 days in office. Kumar's records date back to President Ronald Reagan's first term.
Trump's favored venue is short question-and-answer session with reporters, 40 of them from the Oval Office. "With regular coverage by cable networks, particularly Fox News and C-SPAN, Trump used the setting to show what decisions he was making and explained the reasons he took action," Kumar said in her report.
Partly as a result, polls indicate a large number of Americans seem to know what the president is doing, even if they don't necessarily agree with it.