Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan talks about her latest confrontation with President Donald Trump after deliberately avoiding him for eight years. It reveals her concern that his “charming” personality would cloud her judgment.
“I had never met Trump until two or three weeks ago,” Noonan said. In the latest conversation With The Free Press founder Bari Weiss released Tuesday, “In 2015 and 2016, when he made the decision or decided to run for president. currently holding position His office and his assistants did what they would do to anyone in journalism. Who reached out and said, ‘We want to know about you. We want to meet you. Come in and meet the boss and have lunch. And I always said, ‘No, I don’t want to’.”
“The reason is that I can feel it when I’m nearby. He is charming and funny. And there will be some lovely things. And it would interfere with my golf swing as an observer,” she explains. “I don’t want to see him up close. I don’t want to see him far away. I want this instinct (to) see him in the middle distance. And I felt that I saw him clearly in the middle of the distance.”
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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan reveals she met new governor Donald Trump for the first time before the election. After she refused to meet him since he entered politics. (William B. Pleiman/NBC via Getty Images)
Noonan, Trump’s vocal critic acknowledging the war of words she and the former president have had over the years and the attacks she received through his tweets and at his rallies. By telling Weiss, “I will look back fondly on it in a strange way.”
“Two or three weeks ago he came to the Wall Street Journal to attend an editorial board meeting. And my instinct was again, ‘Don’t go,’ but then I corrected myself,” Noonan said. “I’ve been writing about him for eight years. I catch him like a seal from time to time. He catches me from time to time And it will be very wrong if he reads my newspaper and he cannot go there and receive punishment. Or do whatever he wants to do. It made me feel like it was the right thing to do, so I went.”
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Noonan said she met President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with the Wall Street Journal editorial board before the election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“So we are waiting for him… I’m sitting next to (Wall Street Journal editorial director) Paul Gigot, and in the silence as we waited impatiently, Paul said, ‘How many times have you met Trump?’ And I said, ‘I’ve never met Trump,’ and he said, I was like, ‘You’ve never met Trump?!?’ And he was like, ‘Wow.’ Like, ‘Oh, we’re going to have a drama here.’ And suddenly I thought, ‘Oh my god, maybe it is. Drama’ Do you know how Trump acts? When he gets scary, I mean, up close,” she continued, “At one point the door opened. And the followers came And then there’s Trump, who wears a blue suit and a really big tie. And I’m big. Everything was big. And he was like, got beaten up by other people, and he said to me, ‘You are the most amazing woman.'”
“And then he sat down and talked to us…He was on and off the record, but off the record, he was hilarious, vulgar, inappropriate, saying things about foreign leaders that shouldn’t be said to a group of journalists. And I just sat there thinking at the end of it, ‘ Darling, your instincts are correct. If you met him in 2015, you would love him but you wouldn’t meet him,’” Noonan added.
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Noonan said Trump blew past her colleague at the Wall Street Journal and told her ‘you’re wonderful’ even though they had a frosty relationship for years. (William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images; Evan Vucci/AP)
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Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter and author of “A Sure Idea of America,” recently told Fox News’ Bret Baier that the country was “in the midst of something really big” after Trump’s victory. Pip
“I feel like people think they really don’t like what they’re seeing in the 21st century, and they feel like Mr. Trump doesn’t either. That is why they chose him twice. I think more than half the country is just massively anti-establishment,” Noonan said.
