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“This is doing good television, I’ll say that.” Those were the last words Donald Trump said to somewhat shocked media generated from the Oval Office on Friday Zelenshyr Zelenskyy.
It’s a darling moment. For Trump, all about how Trump TV looks, where he imagines himself as a more inspiring star. When he played on the part of the gracious, useful President – a mode he was as yet at the beginning of that press conference, he wanted to put it, more beautiful. Everything is “beautiful”; Every world leader, hero or villain, a “great person” that he has a “excellent relationship” with.
If he decides to play hard man, however, he can then move to a different tool: dug, fierce. This Trump version can be one who harms to standing his country in the world. It can be Russian propaganda. However, no matter what, he remains a master of understanding his message. On top of the other side of the “beautiful ocean of Trump” Friday night, the angry showdown of White House Would everyone like people to talk about.
My cab driver said he didn’t know how to start the War in Ukraine but followed the night drama LBC. “Zelenskyy should accept a ceasefire, that’s what Trump says,” he told me. “But Zelenskyy doesn’t want to do it.” I hit the way, while this man listened to a show where the rage was checking the Causeeam ad all kind of pundits, it was Trump’s message trump.
Over the past week, we saw two very different parts of Trump’s style of communication. He may have joked last year for suggesting that his departure on the subject is actually a good practical call he called the “thread”But to see the US president who says with the principal minister of Britain Keir Starmmer in the White House is to see someone who is fully controled. The press conference contains all the signs of communication style that Trump is doing well when he is not angry: messies, humorInnocence, simplicity, reliance, avoidance, refuse.
“Do I say that?” Trumpet Answer when asked if he still believed Zelenskyy was a “dictator”, as he wrote on social media last week. “I can’t believe that I said that. Next question.” Trump gives a known smile while the journalists gathering in the Oval Office released a class collective groan.
It is the classic Trump Million: To his enthusiastic followers, his disrespectful denial is a sign that he can play in front of the media and British prime minister. To those who fear Trump’s words, this is a certainty (at least one turning one) that he may not have indispensed it at all.
Reform leader UK Nigel Farage has recently reminds us that “you need to always seriously the Trump, but don’t need to carry him literally”. He may be right, but there is a problem: How is one to know when we NEED Remove the president literally? It’s impossible to really know, and that’s the beauty of this technique: Trump leaves things so open to interpretation, changes his words so often, and offers so many compliments, that he manages to maintain plausible deniability, keeping his options open.
It is not just Trump that is very effective in delivering his message; It’s his team too. Remove press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. The 27-year-old – the youngest person given to this job – there is a stunning command of the briefing room and no perfect prisoners. Last week he placed on “media hounds” because of “consciously” who was the new heading dog doge doge. From the glorious lawyers of members at the News-News-hosts cabinet, the Trump surrounded by telegenic, strength, communication.
He also has a stamina. On Thursday at the press conference, the vice-president JD Vanced is credited with Starmer. “He answered 1,009 questions in the first 30 days”, he can be heard to say Proud, siting A National Journal report Saw Trump responded seven times as many questions as biden at the same time.
Trump is “flooding in the zone” and at the moment no one in America can stop him. If the Democrats have a substitute for what the President and his uncontrollable young pretend, principle, they really need to start talking about it – fast. Mock and joke don’t cut it. Trump TV is the real world today.