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Most journalists who cover so-called “holes of power” such as Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London and Paris prefer something everyday rather than spontaneous.
Predictability is simple. Most of the capitals are comforting because it is a commonplace place where boredom is not only a pleasant fact on earth, but also a general state of mind.
That is why President Donald Trump and Vice President’s overreaction to the US president of the lively dressing down to JD Vance was so consistent with the White House Press Corpse’s stubborn attachment to practiced courtesy surrounding impulsive truth.
Unlike many other experts and columnists, he immediately ran into the universally familiar cable news network, expressing his distrust and shock at the “embarrassing” scene of his “humiliation” commander of the “embarrassing” commander of America.
Rather than seeing a compiled and memorable set of works featuring smiling foreign officials and heads of state visiting unprecedented President Polit in an oval office, it was refreshing to see the roughness, rudeness and explicit exhibitions.
They hate to admit it, but the sea of scribes, standing like mute mannequins, as Trump, Vance and Zelensky traded rhetorical blows for several bruise rounds, was expecting another tame pedestrian day, like many other feed.
They know the predictable role they play during these choreographed pantomimes.
Step 1: Go to the oval office.
Step 2: Record foreign heads of state saying nice and sweet things about the US president.
Step 3: Record what the US president is saying nice and sweet things about foreign heads of state.
Step 4: Report that the US President and foreign heads of state have said nice and sweet things about each other.
Step 5: Later, call the sources who say in private that the US President and the foreigners weren’t saying nice and sweet things about each other.
Step 6: Quote an anonymous source and tell each other, personally, personally, and the truth, despite the fact that the President of the US and his grinning guests say they can’t stand each other.
It was actually a formulaic arc of many of the reports from French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer made a pilgrimage to Washington last week and made a pilgrimage to Washington to massage and soothe Trump.
True to his unorthodox nature – charitably – Trump and his claws Vice President overturned that traditional script, along with Zelensky, designed or instinctively.
Reporters and critics died in confusion and confusion. This wasn’t supposed to happen the way it happened, they moaned. Clearly I was disappointed that I had to act as a journalist rather than a stenographer.
Much of the hyperbolic rage directed at Trump was obvious to his resentment towards Ukraine and its president, so not much of what he said to Zelensky, but in the oval office in front of a television camera, how and where he said it.
That’s what we think of American elegant chattering classes as ranked and chilling. Trump openly criticised and bullyed him while the more cautious and “diplomatic” president tore him behind closed doors and bullyed him.
Ironically, the American network and the personalities that live in them are leveraging “live” broadcasts to attract viewers seduced by the current urgency and the unrealistic prospects of drama and conflict erupting.
News-worthy drama and conflict erupted in an oval office on Friday, but instead of accepting it, the same network and character from them reacted to it, labeling it as unclear in the presidency and the US itself.
Here’s a bit of news for the yapping ostrich:
Aside from lying with morbidity and ordering others to kill others without scintillating regret or regret, being rude, crude and wild brute is a prerequisite for the job of a US president, Democrat or Republican.
Trump is no exception. He’s the rule.
Harvard-trained administration of President John F. Kennedy recruited the mafia to kill Cuba’s young and charismatic leader Fidel Castro, and gave implicit approval to a coup that saw the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government and the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in early November 1963.
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, was a 6-foot, 4-inch boor, physically attacking a much smaller civil servant who angered him.
In 1965, the young Johnson summoned Leicester Pearson, the small Canadian prime minister, and gave a hard talk after the Noble Peace Prize winner condemned the US bombing in North Vietnam.
Johnson grabbed Pearson with the collar of his shirt, twisted it, lifted the Prime Minister by his neck, cried out, “You’ve been mad at my rug.”
That same year, an enraged Johnson pushed then-Fed Preparatory Chairman William Martin against the wall for raising interest rates against the president’s wishes.
“The boys are dying in Vietnam and Bill Martin doesn’t care,” Johnson thundered.
Presidential Probability Avatar Richard Nixon has ordered the CIA to block, block, weaken, and destabilize Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende.
And Nixon’s obscene anti-Semitism makes Trump’s fiery remarks about Zelensky seem rather mild in comparison. He complained on the tape that Washington is “full of Jews” and “most Jews are dishonest.”
Whether the lamenting experts and television personality are ready to acknowledge it, Trump was right. The sensational oval office fireworks were made for a fantastic TV.
This time, I knew in real time the astonishing history-making words and the actions of another “gang” president.
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