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Donald Trump “Wants to Demonstrate Absolute Power”: Maggie Haberman on Covering a Tumultuous Second Term

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New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman wrote a new afterword for her book, Confidence Man.

She says the president is "pretty untethered" from previous limitations in office.

Haberman says the media has "separated the signal from the noise at this point".

Donald Trump is showing that he wants to demonstrate absolute power.

He has never been interested in governance, but he is about power now.

He's not really doing formal press conferences, but the pool that takes those questions is now selected by the White House .

The White House is shaping their media coverage in ways that they didn’t before.

There’s been some tension between Trump and the Times , but I don’t think the word relationship is not the correct one.

I think that the Times is doing a very, very good job covering this administration, but how expansively he wants to escalate against the news media, I think only time will tell.

In terms of his relationship with New York , he changed his voting registration to Florida .

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