Katy Tur says Trump stays active and does 'much more' than Biden amid reports of 'fatigue'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump, 79, has accomplished “much more” than former President Joe Biden, according to MS NOW host Katy Tur. During a podcast on Wednesday, November 26, Tur addressed recent news about Trump’s so-called “fatigue,” which made headlines following a report by The New York Times.

Tur didn’t hold back, noting that audiences “love to watch” Trump’s “micro-moments,” and that attention is firmly on him right now. She added that the president enjoys engaging with the press and appears to spend more time meeting with media than Biden has.

“He is out there in a way that past presidents haven’t even been out there. He does give access. He’s constantly on television,” Tur said.

Katy Tur highlights Donald Trump’s active role despite reports of ‘fatigue’

On 'The Daily Beast Podcast,' host Joanna Coles and Katy Tur highlighted how President Trump stays in the public eye. Tur emphasized that he enjoys press conferences and engages with the media far more than Biden.

She said, "All of our attention is on him, we are watching this in a micro-moment by micro-moment. I think, not to get on the bandwagon and to push back a little bit, he is doing much more than, certainly Joe Biden did," Tur said. She went on to note that Trump remains unusually active compared with past presidents.

"He is out there in a way that past presidents haven’t even been out there. He does give access. He’s constantly on television," Tur added. "He might be slowing down for him and slowing down because he’s getting up there in age, but he is still very much mobile."

"I mean, he’s doing overseas travel. He’s coming back, he’s handing out Halloween candy. Sometimes these trips are one day. I mean, he is very much still engaged," she added.

Katy Tur praises Trump while highlighting Joe Biden’s communication challenges

Tur said conversations about Trump should focus on him, not be compared to Biden. "He's not doing the same amount of travel that he used to. I mean, the domestic travel has certainly declined. He's not doing those rallies."

"He's not standing in front of a crowd for an hour or two hours, three hours in, you know, Grand Rapids, Michigan, any longer. And I think that's telling. But this has got to be relative to him and not necessarily relative to Joe Biden," she said.

She also recalled attending a White House Christmas party during the Biden administration, noting how hard it was to follow the former president’s speech. "I went to the Christmas party, during the Biden years, and he came out at like eight o'clock, and he gave a speech to the assembled room of journalists, and you could not understand a word he was saying, right," Tur said. "It's different."

Trump pushes back against New York Times report on his daily schedule

The New York Times recently analyzed Trump’s schedule and noted that he holds "fewer public events" than he did during his first term, often appearing between noon and 5 pm. 

The report also mentioned that Trump seemed to doze off during a recent Oval Office event. Trump reacted angrily to the story, which was headlined "Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office," calling it a "hit piece" in a post on social media.