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CNN Reporter Surprises With Positive Remarks About President Trump On Podcast
CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins praised President Trump’s stamina and accessibility to the media.
During an appearance on Jason Tartick’s podcast “Trading Secrets,” Collins commented on Trump’s surprising lack of need for sleep.
“He like does not sleep,” Collins commented.
“You never want to be on Air Force One on a trip,” she said, adding, “he doesn’t sleep on these trips.”
“Trump is just always up and talking, and he’ll have them go wake staff up if they’re asleep because he wants to talk to them,” she continued.
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Says Trump ‘Does Not Sleep’
“You never want to be on Air Force One on a trip … going to Asia or something … Trump is just always up and talking, and he'll have them go wake staff up if they're asleep because he wants to talk to them.” pic.twitter.com/ZLRoT00QC5
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) October 7, 2025
Daily Mail shared:
Staffers were routinely woken up while they were sleeping so Trump could speak to them about upcoming meetings or how he should respond to something negative said about him in the media.
The report also claimed that Trump had all the televisions switched to Fox News and that he spent hours reviewing cable news shows that had been recorded for him.
The staffers said they were kept up for hours and were often unable to convince Trump to go join Melania in their private quarters for some rest.
At the time, Air Force One did not have lie-flat seats, as is common on business-class sections of commercial flights, for anyone except Trump and the First Lady.
So, aides were forced to find the nearest couch or office chair. The best prepared among them brought yoga mats so they could sleep on the floor with some comfort.
The CNN report delved into Trump’s odd sleeping habits as a then-septuagenarian.
He only slept four to five hours a night in the White House and even less than that when he was in the air.
Collins also commented on Trump being an “accessible president.”
“Any time the camera’s around and reporters are around, it can turn into a press conference,” Collins said.
“Trump will swear someone in, and then he’ll turn to you and say, ‘Any questions?’ And he’ll take questions for 45 minutes,” she continued.
Collins mentioned that Barack Obama almost never responded to shouted questions.
“Trump upended that when he came into the White House,” she said.
“Trump embraced the media. He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press and always has long before taking office. Most politicians are not very press-savvy. It kind of depends on who it is,” she added.
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KAITLAN COLLINS: “Trump is such an accessible President … Anytime the camera's around and reporters are around, it can turn into a press conference … President Obama almost never responded to shouted questions … Trump upended that when he came into the White House.” pic.twitter.com/kHo5hIZfu5
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) October 7, 2025
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She added that she has also personally called Trump in the past for a comment, showing how accessible the president is to the media.
“I would just call him directly,” Collins said. “I didn’t make a habit out of it, but if there was something huge happening like the day of the Mar-a-Lago raid when the FBI showed up and executed a search warrant over the classified documents. We had heard it was happening. Our people on the ground in Florida were trying to get in touch with law enforcement sources. And it was kind of one of those moments where I was like, ‘We will be best served if I just call him directly and ask if this is true.’ And it was true. And he sent me the statement immediately confirming it.”
Collins and Trump have frequently clashed during press conferences, with Trump calling Collins a “low-rated anchor” and remarking “nobody watches CNN anymore.”
Despite his rhetoric, however, Collins gave credit to Trump and his team for taking her questions and recalled a moment when White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended her during the president’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May.
Collins recalled shouting out a question in Saudi Arabia to Trump while he was with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and she was then admonished by the royal guard that she couldn’t come to the next event.
“They were deeply upset that I had asked a question,” she said. “To Karoline Leavitt’s credit, she was like, ‘No, Kaitlan’s coming in with the rest of the U.S. press.’ And so, I went into the next event. But I think things like that, you can disagree about questions and briefings and whatnot. Press access is key and every administration, I think, should protect that.”
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