Peter Baker

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Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1 and proud father of @tab_delete. Co-Author of "THE DIVIDER."

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1Feb 25, '25Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journa32.9×6.4M28k7k984
2May 21, '23Striking how Putin is adopting Trump's perceived enemies as his own. The new Russian sanctions list includes people Trump considers adversaries like Letitia James, Brad Raffensperg13×2.5M12k3.2k265
3Jul 15, '20Federal ethics law: "An employee shall not use or permit the use of his Government position or title or any authority associated with his public office to endorse any product, serv12.2×0145k37k696
4Oct 17, '24"I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster": The former marketing chief for NBC who helped promote a fake version of Trump as a successful businessman on "The Appre10.1×2M21k7.4k1.2k
5Jun 9, '25"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Ca8.8×1.7M34k9.8k727
6Jun 29, '25In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many le8.8×1.7M16k3.5k724
7Mar 11, '25Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a ye7.6×1.5M32k9.4k1.3k
8Oct 3, '25Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away.6.6×1.3M21k9.2k1.6k
9Mar 4, '25Trump: "Canada doesn't allow American Banks to do business in Canada." Canadian Banking Association: Sixteen US banks currently operate in Canada.5.2×1M20k6k495
10Jul 30, '20Lincoln did not delay elections during the Civil War. FDR did not delay elections during World War II.5.2×066k15k144
11Aug 8, '20Trump: “We’re doing very well.” Coronavirus deaths over the last 7 days: Australia: 70 Canada: 37 France: 51 Germany: 49 Italy: 55 Japan: 27 Spain: 57 Sweden: 27 UK: 414 US: 7,1895.2×049k21k500
12Apr 24, '20Trump: "You know the way it was asked. I was looking at you." Reporter: "No you weren't sir. I wasn't there yesterday."5.1×072k11k275
13Nov 8, '18Trump @PressSec confirms that White House has suspended the hard pass of a reporter because it doesn't like the way he does his job. This is something I've never seen since I start4.9×054k16k60
14Feb 24, '22Reminder: Russia signed a binding international agreement in 1994 committing "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” and “to refrain from 4.8×062k12k667
15Feb 14, '25Headlines from today: Vice President Vance Accuses European Leaders of Censoring Free Speech White House Bars Associated Press From Spaces Like Oval Office and Air Force One4.3×839k16k4.1k441
16Jun 1, '20In the Rose Garden, Trump calls himself "an ally of all peaceful protesters." At the very same moment outside the White House, police and troops have moved against peaceful protest4.1×044k15k185
17Nov 3, '18Jobs created during the first 21 months of Trump’s presidency and the final 21 months of Obama’s presidency: Trump: 4,054,000 Obama: 4,477,000 So job creation is no better now than3.9×037k15k330
18Oct 25, '24McConnell and Johnson issue joint statement accusing Harris of promoting violence by "labeling a political opponent as a ‘fascist.'" They make no mention of the fact that Trump has3.4×668k18k5.1k222
19Aug 30, '24"The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs-up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy," writes former Trump admi3.4×666k11k3.6k302
20Apr 14, '20Trump, Feb. 28: "The press is in hysteria mode" over coronavirus. Trump video, April 13: "The media minimized the risk from the start."3.0×031k11k399
21Nov 5, '20Is it really possible that the president of the United States is the only person who doesn't understand that stopping the count at this point would mean Biden wins?2.9×041k4.9k82
22Jan 23, '25As Trump opens his 2nd term it’s important to understand his 1st. “THE DIVIDER” w/@sbg1 now in paperback or Kindle goes behind the scenes of his first four years in the White House2.9×556k56734380
23Sep 20, '20Very haunting listening now to the bells at Washington National Cathedral tolling for the 200,000 killed by the coronavirus in the United States.2.8×035k8.2k106
24Jul 28, '20Trump: "They're very respected doctors. There was a woman who was spectacular in her statements about it and she's had tremendous success with it." Reporter: "She's also made video2.7×032k8.5k247
25Jan 16, '21Friend reminds us that the night before the 2009 inauguration, Obama and McCain joined together for a bipartisan unity dinner. Obama praised McCain as "an American hero." McCain vo2.7×037k5.8k151
26Jan 31, '22Old enough to remember when it would have been shocking to see a former president admit that his goal was to have "overturned the Election."2.6×037k4.9k114
27Feb 17, '19It's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribut2.5×030k7.6k45
28Aug 22, '18The president of the United States praises the convicted felon who ran his campaign because "he refused to break" and give information to prosecutors.2.5×027k8.1k43
29Mar 31, '20Trump, Feb. 26: "This is a flu. This is like a flu." Trump, today: "It's not the flu. It's vicious."2.5×027k7.6k199
30Aug 2, '20How did Italy, France and Spain do? Average daily deaths over last week: US: 1,204 Italy: 6 France: 10 Spain: 22.4×026k9k181
31Aug 3, '20Trump: “Countries where there have been very significant flareups over the last short period of time are Spain, Germany, France, Australia, Japan.” Coronavirus deaths reported on A2.4×023k9.8k185
32Jan 24, '21The Bidens stop at Call Your Mother, the bagel shop in Georgetown, en route back to the White House -- already a big change. Trying to remember but can't recall Trump ever stopping2.2×033k2.9k67
33Dec 30, '21In the first year of Trump’s presidency, the S&P 500 hit new records 62 times and finished up 17%. In the first year of Biden’s presidency, the S&P 500 hit new records 70 t2.2×026k6.3k424
34Aug 4, '20Why is it okay to have mail-in voting in Florida and not elsewhere? Trump: "Florida has a great Republican governor..."2.2×027k5.8k107
35Jun 3, '20He did not go inside the church or inspect damage or meet with ministers or talk with protesters or lay a wreath or make a speech or answer questions or clean up debris. He did not2.2×027k6.3k122
36Sep 22, '20McEnany, today: "The president has never downplayed critical health information." Trump, March 19: "I wanted to always play it down."2.1×025k6.6k71
37Aug 31, '20"The president's never seen that video," McEnany says of a video he himself tweeted out.2.1×026k5.8k111
38Sep 16, '20Almost a quarter of young adults in America (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or had been exaggerated or weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely n2.1×012k6.9k375
39Mar 30, '20Trump, Thursday: “I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.” Reporter, today: “You’ve said repeatedly that you think some of the equipment that governors are requestin2.1×024k6.4k144
40Oct 22, '20Stahl: "You're OK with some tough questions?" Trump: "No, I'm not." That basically sums it up.2.1×029k4.1k55
41Aug 18, '20Most damning line so far from a woman whose father died of the coronavirus: “His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump.”2.0×027k5.3k69
42Feb 28, '22In almost every way, Putin seems to have achieved the opposite of what he ostensibly wanted. Instead of pushing the US out of Europe, there are more American troops back on the con2.0×029k3.6k364
43Feb 20, '20Just remembering how Bush 43 in his final weeks in office pardoned a developer convicted of mail fraud. When it came out that the developer’s father had contributed $30,000 to the 2.0×025k5.7k178
44Jun 28, '22Did Trump commit a crime? "This is the smoking gun," Sol Wisenberg, a former deputy to Ken Starr, tells me about today's hearing. "There isn’t any question this establishes a prima2.0×025k5.2k202
45Feb 13, '20The president of the United States today accused Bob Mueller, a former FBI director and prosecutor, of a felony by asserting that he lied to Congress. The White House had no explan1.9×021k6.1k115
46Jul 23, '19“This country is a hellhole.” — Donald Trump, May 20, 2015 “But she called our country and our people ‘garbage.’” — President Trump, July 23, 20191.9×021k6.7k138
47Oct 15, '19Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, ac1.9×017k6.8k210
48Aug 24, '18Lindsey Graham, 2017: "If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay." Lindsey Graham, 2018: “The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in ... and I 1.9×017k6.3k44
49Oct 30, '20Donald Trump Jr.: "Why aren't they talking about deaths? Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing because we've gotten control of this thing." Coronavirus deaths in US yesterda1.8×020k6.2k131
50Nov 13, '18White House shifts its explanation for barring @Acosta — no more mention of “placing his hands” on anyone, now the issue supposedly is that he kept asking questions. So if they thi1.8×022k5.2k17
51Mar 31, '22Trump: "So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration ... to 100% full.” Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Jan 2017: 695 million barre1.8×018k5.2k541
52Feb 18, '19Sorry, simply not true. I've interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades. All complained about the press and at times lashed out. But none of them, Re1.7×022k4.7k36
53Oct 12, '18Who was it that said the Saudis have messed with the wrong newspaper? If they think this is going away without answers, they must have had some other paper in mind.1.7×019k6.2k48
54Jan 2, '19With everything else that he said today, it may not get as much attention, but it still stands out that the president of the United States today said the Soviets were right to inva1.7×018k5.9k54
55Aug 15, '19“Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” — President Trump, March 2, 2018 “I never said China was going to be easy.” — President Trump, August 15, 20191.7×018k6.2k112
56May 25, '20Trump, 2020: "I played golf over the weekend. The Fake & Totally Corrupt News makes it sound like a mortal sin." Trump, 2014: "When you're president you sort of say like I'm go1.6×019k5.3k93
57Jun 29, '19Trump says he was “extremely angry” about the Khashoggi killing but “nobody has has directly pointed a finger” at MBS. Except, of course, the CIA and the UN.1.6×020k4.8k34
58Jul 25, '18In statement, White House @PressSec acknowledges barring CNN reporter @kaitlancollins because she “shouted questions and refused to leave” Oval Office at end of pool spray. If that1.6×019k4.7k12
59Jan 3, '21Mitt Romney on the Trump-Cruz effort to overturn the results of a certified democratic election: "I could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the w1.6×022k3.2k49
60Aug 5, '18Trump-dictated statement, July 2017: "We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago." Trump, 1.5×015k6.3k49
61Jul 5, '19Trump says citizenship has to be asked on the census to determine congressional districts. Actually, districts are drawn up based on total population, not the number of citizens, a1.5×018k4.8k46
62Jun 4, '20In the space of one tweet, Trump manages two falsehoods. He says he fired Mattis (actually he resigned) and says he "changed" Mattis's nickname to "Mad Dog" (he did not, that nickn1.5×018k4.6k90
63Nov 8, '18White House Photographers Assn says it "is appalled to learn that the White House spokesperson may have shared a manipulated video of CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s interaction with a W1.5×016k5.5k20
64May 15, '20Nearly four months after the first coronavirus case was detected in the United States, the White House says it had a plan all along.1.5×016k3.3k56
65Sep 24, '19For the fourth time in American history, a president faces a serious threat of impeachment by the House of Representatives.1.5×019k3.5k62
66Sep 10, '21Where we live, your child must receive vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, mumps, measles, rubella, polio, Haemophilus influenza type (Hib), hepatitis B, and varic1.4×017k3.2k150
67Jun 29, '19Trump: "I never thought about being a politician until two days before I decided to run. A little before that.” In fact, he volunteered to run as Bush’s vice president in 1988, lau1.4×016k4.1k63
68Dec 21, '18Trump to Dems last week: "I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won't blame you for it." Trump this morning: "If enough Dems don’t vote, it will be a Democra1.4×014k5k28
69Jun 11, '20Trump assails Warren for proposing to rename bases named for Confederate generals and expresses hope that “Republican Senators won’t fall for this” — perhaps unaware that the Repub1.4×018k3.6k50
70Apr 2, '20More than 100,000 Americans are expected to die after a slow initial government response to the coronavirus pandemic and the first person to be fired is ... the aircraft carrier ca1.4×013k5.5k113
71Jun 18, '18Another first lady heard from: Rosalynn Carter releases statement saying "The practice and policy today of removing children from their parents' care at our border with Mexico is d1.4×015k5.2k9
72Jun 15, '20The 2 pm White House briefing was canceled at 3:55 pm.1.3×018k2.4k45
73Jun 6, '20Hours after saying that "this is a great day" for George Floyd, Trump retweets a post quoting conservative commentator saying of Floyd, "The fact that he has been held up as a mart1.3×013k4.9k92
74Dec 18, '18Ken Starr and his team already knew the answer to the question when they asked Bill Clinton about Monica Lewinsky and they considered it material and deemed the answer to be perjur1.3×016k4k57
75Feb 6, '22Trump got elected in part by attacking Clinton for deleting emails that she deemed personal, then spent four years destroying official documents despite federal law. ⁦@AshleyRParke1.3×012k4.5k271
76Sep 22, '20Trump: "We’re doing better than Europe." Average deaths per day over the last week: Spain: 107 France: 53 Italy: 14 US: 7991.3×013k4.9k80
77Mar 12, '20At the moment, the markets have now wiped out roughly 83 percent of the gains of the entire Trump presidency.1.3×013k4.5k99
78Jul 21, '20Hours after McEnany said Trump is tested daily and sometimes "multiple" times a day, Trump says he is usually tested every two or three days. "I don't know of any time I took two t1.3×016k2.8k46
79Apr 7, '20"The mail ballots are corrupt in my opinion," says Trump, who requested a mail ballot to vote in last month's Florida primary.1.3×014k4.3k53
80Sep 1, '18The audience at the cathedral broke out in applause when Meghan McCain declared: “The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great."1.3×017k3.3k26
81Nov 5, '20Trump says he is being cheated because Biden is picking up votes in some states as the counting proceeds while boasting that he is picking up votes in Arizona as the counting proce1.3×017k2.8k95
82Jun 10, '22For the first time, the public sees the president’s own daughter confirm that she accepted Barr’s assessment that the election was not stolen.1.3×019k2.2k38
83Jun 3, '19Worth noting too: the president of the United States just called for an economic boycott of one of the country's largest telecommunications firm as a way of pressuring a media orga1.2×013k4.8k63
84Jul 21, '20Trump offers supportive words to Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with luring multiple underage girls into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit: "I wish her well."1.2×013k3.2k53
85Jul 10, '18Once again, Trump has this wrong. The 2% spending target is not a current commitment but a goal set for 2024, still six years away. No one is "delinquent" or owes the US any paymen1.2×011k5.1k37
86Jun 5, '19It's 1:34 am in London and the president of the United States is awake and tweeting about an actress who offended him.1.2×015k2.7k26
87Aug 9, '20It has come to this: Even the Canadians don't want us. Cars with US plates are vandalized and Americans sneaking across the border face fines as high as six figures.1.2×012k4k111
88Apr 19, '20Trump says 4 million coronavirus tests have now been conducted. That was the amount first promised to be done by the week of March 9.1.2×014k3.6k72
89Jan 9, '21Driving around DC today, it's striking how flags on federal buildings controlled by the president are not at half staff, unlike the ones at the Capitol which were lowered in honor 1.1×014k3.3k74
90Oct 7, '20Trump has gone to the Oval Office, over the objections of aides who wanted him to remain isolated in the residence while recovering from the coronavirus.1.1×012k3.1k35
91May 31, '19Trump to award Medal of Freedom to Arthur Laffer, father of supply side economics that gained prominence in the Reagan years.1.1×014k2.4k18
92Feb 24, '22What Russian officials said in recent weeks about American warnings that Moscow was poised to invade Ukraine: "Hysteria." "False information." "Total disinformation."1.1×014k2.9k126
93Sep 2, '20When you hear Trump suggest that he sent the National Guard somewhere or that governors should ask him to do so, keep in mind that's not true. Governors control National Guard unit1.1×012k3.8k56
94Dec 24, '20Ben Sasse on Trump's pardons of Manafort, Stone and others: "This is rotten to the core.”1.1×015k1.6k30
95Dec 1, '18Bush was fading for days, not getting out of bed and not eating. When his friend Jim Baker showed up yesterday morning, he perked up. “Where are we going, Bake?” he asked. “We’re g1.1×013k3k117
96Sep 15, '19Pompeo, Tuesday: "The president has made very clear he is prepared to meet with no preconditions." Trump, Sunday: "The Fake News is saying that I am willing to meet with Iran, 'No 1.0×011k3.7k51
97Dec 26, '20Trump lashes out at Republican senators, the FBI, the court system, his own Justice Department, the news media and the technology sector for not accepting his baseless claims to ha1.0×013k2k55
98Feb 22, '21Haunting to be listening to the bells of Washington National Cathedral tolling 500 times, one for every 1,000 Americans who have died from covid.1.0×014k1.8k20
99Dec 14, '20Rob Portman: "The orderly transfer of power is a hallmark of our democracy, and although I supported President Trump, the Electoral College vote today makes clear that Joe Biden is0.9×014k1.2k20
100Jul 28, '20Great job by @kaitlancollins following up with Trump. She has made herself one of the all-stars of the briefing room with her polite but persistent questioning.0.9×014k1.3k17
101Jun 22, '20Not sure I understand the whole media-scared-supporters explanation for the low Tulsa turnout. Wouldn't that mean that Trump supporters trusted the media over Trump?0.8×011k1.8k20

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