Trump took 12 times more press questions in 'first few hours' than in Biden's entire first week in office: White House

During Thursday's White House press briefing, the Trump administration revealed that during his first few hours in office, President Donald Trump took more questions from the press than former President Joe Biden answered in his first week in office.

"As you know over the past month, the president has taken questions from the press, all of you, nearly every single day. Sometimes on multiple different occasions in the same day on any topic any of you wish to talk about," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday.

"President Trump set the tone on this approach immediately when he took more than 12 times the questions in his first few hours in office as Joe Biden did in his entire first week. Yesterday, we hosted a local media row here at the White House with television and radio stations from across the country that reached up to 60 million viewers and listeners."

According to the White House, the statistic is in step with the Trump administration's approach to the press and media. Biden, who took 577 vacation days during his term, according to the New York Post, was heavily criticized by some for not speaking to the press more and avoiding questions during his term at times.

During the third year of his term, Biden had held the fewest amount of press conferences since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, according to the New York Times, and multiple news agencies put him on blast for not doing interviews over the course of his presidency.

During the press briefing, Trump adviser Stephen Miller also took a shot at the mainstream media in the room, saying that they did not seriously cover the topic of Biden's age and mental capacities.

"Many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country," Miller said.