Trump on the couch: What he spilled to Maggie Haberman

Donald Trump's sit down with the NYT's Maggie Haberman has drawn buzz. But it's the latest in a trend of the former president's interview style.

Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX News Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based in Washington, D.C., he joined the network in July 2013 and regularly appears on Special Report with Bret Baier and other programs.

But once in a while Trump would slam me, as when I asked a skeptical question about his struggling Atlantic City casinos, which would later go belly up. "I don’t know why I even talk to you," the celebrity businessman snapped. "You’ve never written anything nice about me." That was demonstrably untrue, but in any event, he still returned my calls.

When I started covering his candidacy in 2015, Trump once praised me at a press conference, and sat for six interviews for my show. But when I bumped into him in the White House on one of his first days in office, he half-jokingly complained in front of his staff that I’d "gone neutral" on him. That was actually my job, but in his view, it was like a dirty word, meaning that I couldn’t be counted on to back him a thousand percent.