President Biden has taped an interview with comic Conan O’Brien, marking the president’s first sit-down media interview since he appeared on “60 Minutes” in October.
The episode of the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” recorded Friday, will air at 8 a.m. Dec. 20 on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien radio channel at 8 a.m.
Since taking workplace, Mr. Biden has skipped showing on mainstream media packages in favor of extra pleasant, show-business-style interviews. He has but to look on Fox News and final did a CNN city corridor in October 2021, however he has appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
Those low-risk conversations with supportive celebrities have been a means of making optimistic publicity for the president with out operating into the hazard of a significant gaffe. Ms. Barrymore, for instance, pressed Mr. Biden about whether or not he was a superb gift-giver to his spouse, prompting an extended dialog in regards to the poems he’s written for her.
Mr. Biden has given fewer interviews to main information organizations than his predecessors regardless of his promise to revive conventional media relations, which have been strained below 4 years of former President Donald Trump.
Mr. Biden has granted a sit-down interview to 1 wire service outlet, The Associated Press. He is the primary president in many years who has not sat for an interview with The Washington Post or The New York Times.
So far, Mr. Biden has participated in 74 interviews, the fewest of any president since Ronald Reagan, in keeping with information compiled by presidential scholar Martha Kumar. In comparability, Mr. Trump had granted 273 interviews.
