Maggie Haberman is a tool and an access journalist but she's spent 9 years covering the guy and she's probably had a hand in writing more than a million words about the guy at the NYT.
She knows him better than maybe any other journalist. And as much as I hate her - I trust her observations on this. In fact - I assume she's sitting on lot of recent juicy examples that will only appear years later in one of her books.
05:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSWa6S1r6Ec&t=347s
"The music thing is a big thing for him. It was how people would basically 'reset' him in the White House."
~7:42 She talks about him at a dinner.
"It was as if he had no sense of who he was in front of or who he was talking to... It's like he's devoid of context. It's like he's showing up and behaving."
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Rant
Media outlets need to provide transcripts. It's super annoying to hunt for this sort of crap.
This is beautiful. It’s like they’re describing Buddha.
I found comments that referred to "reset" and "devoid of context". I always want a transcript but I knew one didn't exist and articles about the vid clip were going to be SEO garbage. I hate to watch video to play the game of Find the Quotes! but I figured it would be worth the effort. Haberman is unusual for DC dorks. She's clever and she knows how to tell a story. And my efforts paid off.
I'd never watch a vid of a typical DC dork like Peter Baker. They're like the annoying uncanny valley garbage output for an AI prompt like:
𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝙳𝙲 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚖𝚙.