A day in Donald Trump's living life

In Donald Trump's first term, he invented many things about how the president's task was done. The strictly planned day of his predecessor-die rigid procession of fifteen-minute meetings, the early morning hours not for him. Instead, a large part of his “executive period” was spent in the small dining room in front of the Oval Office – a place that was finally notorious by his decision to spend a large part of the afternoon of January 6, 2021, whereby a lot of his followers stormed the captain and refused to do something about it. He sat there and looked cable television, tweeting something he saw on TV, and then looked at the reporting about his tweet. After observing this behavior for years, a former official of the White House from Trump's first term in office said that it was as if the president was a long attempt for the role of Mike Teavee, the television American Kid in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. In the film, the boy jumps into an actual television and finds herself in millions of pieces and then shrinks into a tiny version. Wonkas Oompa Loompas extends it back onto a Taffy panel and sings how television turns the brain into Goop.

In Trump's case, his second term has shown another thesis. The President of the United States can spend so much of his day in front of the camera that it is as if he was roaming live in his term and not only being obsessed as it is obsessed on TV. Hardly a day goes by, on which Trump does not summarize the press pool of the White House – now handpicked by his employees and not selected independently of the media itself, as has been selected for more than a century – for an announcement, a visit to a foreign dignitary or just to get a few things from his breast. Sometimes this happens several times in a single day. These Oval Office Rambles have largely replaced the more formal press conferences in the eastern space, which he held in his previous term. And without more elections, Trump has largely distributed the large rallies that were his campaigns and preferred to spend time in the White House or in his own private clubs in Florida and New Jersey. An analysis showed that he spent forty the first hundred days – and twelve of fourteen weekends – time in his personal real estate.

If he Is In the White House, the brand image of his second term at the determined desk has become Trump, with a rotating occupation of admiring admiring cabinet members and other characters behind him while he speaks and speaks to the cameras and shameful questions that are arranged before him. Trump has not yet reached the complete dictation mode with these phenomena. The deceased Venezuelan strong AM Every Sunday until Chávez the bracket, which was often four to eight hours later. But they are increasingly the signature of Trump's presidency.

On Thursday the press pool was called at 10:48 a.m. AM. For what Trump had invoiced as a “very large and exciting” announcement of a new trade business between the USA and the British reporters, the President already came with the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer on the spokesman for the British Prime Minister. The deal turned out, was a little less than announced – one in principle, after years of conversations and with many details. Trump does not come close to the goal of “ninety shops in ninety days”, which his trade advisor promised after the threat of the president shocked the global economy by “mutual” tariffs in his speech on April 2. Nevertheless, it was something, and Trump with all the zeal of a used car seller who was planned for the agreement, even though he admitted that it has not yet been done. “We will have everything very conclusive in the coming weeks,” he vowed. His trading secretary Howard Lutnick praised the boss as “closer”. “He gets business that we could never do,” said Lutnick.

As Lutnick said this, I thought that Trump only two days earlier in the Oval Office during a visit to the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was largely elected, was chosen on the basis of his promise to defend himself against Trump's endangered trade war. With Carney at his side, Trump had named the trade agreement, which he signed in his first term in Canada and Mexico, only as a “transition agreement” to be comfortable NAFTA“The worst trade agreement in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world.” Transition? When Trump signed the pact in 2020, he proclaimed it for “the largest, most important, most modern and balanced trade agreement in history”. Poor Keir Starrer. There are many words that come from Trump's mouth and few that he will not give up when they are no longer comfortable.

As for the words on Thursday, there were many of them, many had little to do with Great Britain or global trade. In the course of his on-air comments, Trump spoke about knowing the late Sean Connery. (That was a kind of Great Britain.) He explained that he only invests in golf courses “if they are in the sea”. He again complained about the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, and refused to reduce interest rates, even after Trump said very well, he had no intention of pursuing his many threats to dismiss him. “He doesn't want to do it – he is probably not in love with me,” said Trump. He later mocked the democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, later, and as far as I could judge, said that Schumer, the Jew, is so sympathetic to the Palestinians that he becomes officially one; Maybe, Trump said as someone – I wasn't quite sure who – was hit roughly that there would be a kind of “ceremony” to welcome him.

When asked about a catastrophic discussion of airport from air traffic control at Newark Airport, Trump complained about Pete Buttigieg, the transport secretary of the Biden Administration, and explained that he would soon buy a “brand new”, “stand of art” and the “incredible” system to replace the old. He added that he personally gave his transport secretary Sean Duffy a crash course to negotiate a good business. “I gave him a ten -minute lesson when buying,” said Trump, “and he turned out really well.”

Almost an hour after his conversation, Trump dropped an unexpected piece of messages -that he dropped the nomination of his controversial decision as a US lawyer for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, after a key republican in the judicial committee said that he had not put together with the selection of Martin who had taken over the stop movement and the conspiracy of the conspiracy. Trump suggested that there wasn't enough hours to defend Martin in the middle of all the other important things he does. “I'm just one person,” he said. “I can only lift this little phone a day so often.” At first it was not entirely clear that he had actually thrown Martin, but then he shook his head and stated that there was no other choice. “Sometimes it works,” he said.

When Trump stopped at 11:53 a.m. AM It was an hour and five minutes on Thursday since the press pool was called. But Trump turned out, was hardly done. At 12:13 PmThe pool was called in the Ostzimmer, where Trump started another television event, a rare joint appearance with first Lady Melania Trump, in which he “passed enormous things on the trade that we have never seen before”, and on the Eva of the mother day she made a few eyebrow watching over his own mother. had.”

However, even this unpleasant comment was not enough to get Trump to stop for the day. After a private meeting with the golfer Tiger Woods, who is now with his son Don, Jr., the ex-wife, he came unexpectedly on the terrace next to the entrance to the west wing to speak again with reporters. The great story, as it turned out, was not his deal with Great Britain, but the selection of a new Pope, the Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost born in Chicago, who will now be known as Leo XIV. Trump wanted a piece of the news cycle. “The Pope from the United States of America,” he said, “that's a great honor.”

And so a day in Donald Trump's living life ended at the beginning, with confirmation of a lesson that has been learned many times in the past few years: there is nothing at all that he cannot claim creditworthiness. ♦