Interactions between the president and the free press have been central to the United States since the nation’s founding. The Onion takes a look back at key moments that have shaped the executive branch’s relationship with the Fourth Estate.
1803
Local busybody Arthur Swipple wanders into the White House and asks Thomas Jefferson what he’s up to.
1850
Press pool can’t remember who is president. Polk, maybe?
1881
A dying James Garfield begs political cartoonists to stop drawing caricatures of his gunshot wound.
1910
Taft becomes the first president to address reporters from the West Wing bathtub.
1974
Woodward and Bernstein’s takedown of Richard Nixon marks the first and last time the press successfully holds the president accountable.
1976
Gerald Ford poses nude in Playgirl.
1980
The White House press pool assures Jimmy Carter they can also see Walter Mondale.
2002
George W. Bush reminded for a third time that the “ps” in press corps is silent.
2018
Assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi is posthumously banned from the White House.
2029
Maggie Haberman reveals in a new book that Trump died in office in 2019.
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