Trump did on live TV what other American presidents would just do privately | Opinions

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Do you want to hear a trade secret?

The majority of the journalists who cover the so -called “Halls of Power” in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and beyond routine above spontaneity.

See, predictability is simple. It is reassuring because most capitals are everyday places where boring is not only a pleasant fact on the spot, but also a prevailing state of mind.

That is why the exaggerated response to the lively dressed-American President Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance gave the Ukrainian President Volodyyr Zenskyy, was thus in accordance with the stubbornness of the White House Press Corps for the veneer of experienced politeness about the impulsive truth.

Unlike so many other experts and columnists who were immediately and almost universal on the well -known cable news networks to express their disbelief and shock about the “embarrassing spectacle” of the tacteless supreme commander of America, his “war hero” guest, my computer was not live on my computer.

Instead of looking at a orchestrated, forgetful set piece with smiling foreign dignitaries and heads of state who visited an ever-so-so-polite president in the Oval Office, it was refreshing to witness a flagrility of the cruel, roughness of the room, power of power of power of herds of it, of which place, domesticity of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power of power, of power of God And the public.

They will be disgusting to admit it, but the sea of ​​scribes who stood like stupid mannequins, while Trump, Vance and Zenskyy exchanged rhetorical beats for different bruising rounds, expected another tame, pedestrian day at work as so many other tame, pedestrian days at work.

They know the predictable role they play during these choreographed Pantomimes.

Step 1: Go to the Oval Office.

Step 2: Make a note of the foreign head of state that you say fun and sweet things about the American president.

Step 3: Make a note of the American president and says beautiful and sweet things about the foreign head of state.

Step 4: report that the American president and the foreign head of the state said beautiful and sweet things about each other.

Step 5: Later, call sources that say that Privé did not say fun and sweet things about the US President and the Foreign Head of State.

Step 6: report, with anonymous sources, that despite the fact that despite the fact that they have said fun and sweetly about each other, they can be heard publicly, the truth, the American president and his grinning guest cannot stand each other.

That was in fact the formula arch of a large part of the report after the French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had made their pilgrimers to Washington last week to massage Trump and to interfere.

True to his unorthodox nature – to say the charming – Trump and his clawvice President – have delivered that traditional script, either by design or instinctively, with Zenskyy.

Reporters and experts got away confused and disoriented. This is not supposed to happen as it happened, they moaned – apparently disappointed that they should act as journalists instead of stenographers.

Much of the hyperbolic indignation that is focused on Trump is not so much of what he said to Zenskyy – because his antipathy has been clear to Ukraine and his president – but how and where he said it: in the Oval office for TV cameras.

That is what the soft chatter of America regards so rank and terribly – Trump openly did his expansion and bullying when more discrete and “diplomatic” presidents do their statements and bullying behind closed doors.

The striking irony is that American networks and the personalities that populate them who use the broadcast of “Live” to attract the public that is seduced by the urgency of today and the prospect that, at any time, really, not manufactured, can erupt drama and conflict.

Newsworthy drama and conflict broke out in the Oval Office on Friday, but instead of embracing it, the same networks and personalities withdrew and labeled it as inappropriate and undisputed from the office of the presidency and the United States itself.

Here is a bit of news for the year old ostriches:

Apart from lying with a pathological convenience and the orders of others to kill without a scintilla of regret or regret, rude, rough and a brutal is a job for an American president – democrat or republican.

Trump is not the exception. He is the rule.

The administration of Pretty Boy, trained President John F Kennedy in Harvard, called in the Mafia to try to kill the young and charismatic leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and at the beginning of November 1963 gave his tacit approval to a coup that saw the overshadion of the government Dinh.

Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, was a six-foot, four-inch drill that physically attacked much smaller officials who made him angry.

In 1965, a Livid Johnson called on the shrinking prime minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, to Camp David for a stiff talk after the Noble Peace Prize winner expelled the American bombing of North Vietnam.

Allegedly Johnson Pearson grabbed the collar of the shirt, turned it and lifted the prime minister at the neck and shouted: “You pissed my rug.”

In the same year, a furious Johnson pushed the then chairman of the Federal Reserve William Martin against a wall because he had raised the interest against the wishes of the president.

“Boys die in Vietnam and Bill Martin, it doesn’t matter,” Johnson thundered.

Die Avatar of presidential probability, Richard Nixon, ordered the CIA to block, undermine, undermine and destabilize Chile’s Democratically elected Socialist President, Salvador Allende, Chile’s democratically elected Socialist President.

And Nixon’s obscene anti -Semitism makes Trump’s fiery remarks against Zenskyy rather moderate, compared to. He complained that Washington is “full of Jews” and that “most Jews are unfaithful”.

Whether the moaning experts and TV personalities are willing to acknowledge it or not, Trump was right. The sensational oval office fireworks provided great television.

This time we were aware of the amazing, history -giving words and acts of another president of the ‘gangster’, as it happened.

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