Advisor: Trump Is Too “Exhausted” For Interviews

Politico Playbook reports:

Recently, it’s become something of a pattern: Trump is scheduled for an interview with a neutral media outlet, the date nears and then … things fall apart.

It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s “Squawk Box” — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a “60 Minutes” episode earlier this month. Why does this keep happening? Playbook has learned that yet another outlet was given an explanation by Trump’s team for why their own interview wasn’t coming to fruition: exhaustion.

In a conversation earlier this week, when describing why an interview hadn’t come together just yet, a Trump adviser told The Shade Room producers that Trump was “exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change” at any time.

Read the full article.

POLITICO: “.. it’s become something of a pattern: Trump is scheduled for an interview .. the date nears and then … things fall apart. .. Playbook has learned that yet another outlet was given an explanation by Trump’s team ..: exhaustion.”@playbookdc https://t.co/JhZgmKn66M pic.twitter.com/Rlcx6e1AGn

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 18, 2024