For more than four decades, John Gizzi has covered the White House with rare access and institutional memory — from Human Events in 1979 through every administration since, including as Newsmax’s chief political columnist. In this exclusive conversation with Donald T. Eason, Gizzi offers a clear-eyed view of the Trump presidency: the first modern president without prior elective office, a man who operates without a filter.
“What you see is what you get,” he says, a style that won voters but produced costly first-term personnel failures, from Rex Tillerson to Jeff Sessions. Four years later, Gizzi argues, Trump has learned to choose people he knows. The discussion also takes in election integrity, Iran, and the 2026 midterms.
Spend an hour with one of Washington’s most enduring political journalists.
