WASHINGTON-based journalist Niall Stanage returns to his native city next week to offer an insight into the Trump White House in a talk to be delivered at Queen’s University Belfast.
Stanage, a former editor of Irish current affairs magazine Magill who is now White House columnist for Washington political insider newspaper The Hill, will deliver the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Annual Spring Festival guest lecture on Thursday.
The Belfast man covered the 2016 US presidential election campaign extensively, reporting from the first caucuses in Iowa, through to the party conventions and presidential debates, and from Trump headquarters on election day itself. He is at the White House on a near-daily basis, writing his widely read Hill column, The Memo.
His lecture will offer insights from the Trump v Clinton campaign trail, reveal what it’s like to report from inside the White House on the present administration and assess the most controversial US president of modern times. He has covered US presidential elections since 2004 and wrote a best-selling book on Barack Obama’s 2008 quest for the White House, Redemption Song.
Stanage, who grew up in Carryduff and attended Methodist College, said he was looking forward to the lecture.
“Covering the Trump campaign last year and Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008 gave me a ringside seat for the two most dramatic presidential elections in decades. My lecture will look at the reasons Trump won, what it was like to see the campaign unfold and how I view the first 100 days of the Trump era,” he said.
:: The lecture, which takes at 6.30pm on April 27 at the Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB, will be chaired by Barry Turley of Turley PR and Public Affairs; for tickets and venue details see qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/niall-stanage-lecture/
