President Trump’s daily war with the media appears not to be peculiar to the present administration after all. It has been disclosed that, most presidents, are often frustrated with their media coverage, though, Trump has been more impulsive about it, according to the Washington Examiner.

For President Trump, it’s the big newspapers and cable TV. For former President Obama, it was columnists, a former Communications Director in the Obama regime, Jen Psaki said.

Psaki said, “Every president who’s ever sat in the Oval Office is annoyed with the press from time to time. They all — none of them will admit this publicly — have obsessions with certain columnists.”

Psaki asserted that, every president relies on the media as a means of getting connected with normal Americans, and so are displeased most times when the media make incorrect or inadequate representation of their deliveries.

“Sometimes the frustrations are related to, often times they are, actual news that’s happening and a frustration that news that is not going well is being covered as it’s not going well,” Psaki said.

She stressed further, “Even the auto bailout, which we think of as the best thing we ever did in the Obama administration, the coverage at the time was terrible, and that’s very frustrating to people who are sitting in the Oval Office”.

Also joining Psaki to discuss White House communications at the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University’s McCourt School, was former Trump Communications Director Mike Duke, who said Trump has been especially frustrated with media bias.

Dubke said, “A good level of his frustration comes when he is hearing things come out of the press that he doesn’t believe is true or is a slant on the truth. It is because he understands the value of the media that he gets so frustrated, sometimes angry and upset, and tweets about it.”

Both former directors however said their departments takes the fall when things go bad even if its really the blame of lousy policy.

In Psaki words, “We used to joke…that we wanted to make t-shirts that said, ‘It’s a communications problem, and sometimes it’s not a communications problem, it’s a policy problem”.

Dubke also added that, “We had the same thought in our department, it said, ‘It’s a communications problem’ on the back, and on the front it said, ‘Covfefe,’ – a reference to a confusing typo once used by Trump in his tweet.”

Conclusively, Psaki offered some advice in the wake of the continuous rift between Trump and the media, she said, “I have found for the most part that if you are passing legislation and the American public likes what you are doing, your coverage is usually OK, or pretty good.”

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