In recent days, the overwhelming majority of questions fielded by President Trump have been about the Jeffrey Epstein file. The press corps that follows Trump daily is massive, so it can be difficult asking a question about the case that doesn’t sound like a carbon copy of a question that was asked a few minutes earlier. It also probably guarantees you won’t get to ask a question if the President doesn’t want to talk about the topic over and over again. With that in mind, how do you ask a question without annoying the most powerful man in the free world?
According to 710 WOR White House correspondent Jon Decker, the best way may be to just bring up a different topic. Speaking on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program, Decker discussed how he was able to ask Trump a staggering total of three questions at a briefing on Wednesday.
Decker, who has been in the White House press corps since 1993, managed the trifecta by first asking Trump about Ukraine: “I asked the President, ‘Why are you giving 50 additional days to Putin to prosecute his war against Ukraine?’, and the President said initially, ‘I don’t think that 50 days is a particularly long period of time.’ And then he turned it on me and said, ‘Why didn’t you ask that same question to Biden?’ and I told the President- I responded right away- I said I did ask tough questions to Biden about Ukraine, and the President asked me, ‘What were his answers?’, and I said, ‘They weren’t very good answers, Mister President.’”
Emboldened by Trump’s mood, Decker then asked him about his last conversation with Fed chair Jerome Powell: “And then I just want to see his reaction to this; I asked the President, ‘Will you appoint Powell to another four-year term?’… He [laughed and] gave me a four-word answer. He said, ‘You must be joking.’ He liked that.”
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