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Most of the journalists who cover the so-called “rooms of power” in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and beyond prefer routine to spontaneity.
You see, predictability is easy. It is comforting because most capitals are trivial places where boredom is not only a pleasant fact on the ground, but also a dominant state of mind.
This is why the overworked reaction to the vice-president of the United States Donald Trump and vice-president JD Vance gave the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in accordance with the stubborn tenderness of the White House press for the placement of civility practiced on impulsive truth.
Unlike so many other experts and columnists who have rushed instantly and almost universally on familiar cable information networks to express their disbelief and their shock on the “embarrassing show” of the commander -in -chief without tact of America “humiliating” his “hero at war”, I was fascinated by the remarkable scenes which take place on my computer screen.
Rather than looking at a piece of set orchestrated and forgettable with smiling foreign dignitaries and heads of state visiting a president always as political in the oval office, it was refreshing to see a blatant exhibition of rudeness, rudeness and politics of electricity which generally occurs, far from cameras and, therefore reporters and the public.
They will repugnate it to admit it, but the sea of ​​scribes which was held like silent models while Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy exchanged rhetorical blows for several murderous rounds, expected another day of tamed pedestrian like so many other days of tamed pedestrian.
They know the predictable role they play during these choreographed pantomimes.
Step 1: Go to the oval office.
Step 2: Record the foreign head of state by saying kind and gentle stuff on the American president.
Step 3: Save the American president by saying kind and sweet stuff on the foreign head of state.
Step 4: Report that the American president and the foreign head of state said kind and gentle things on each other.
STEP 5: Later, call sources that say that, in private, the American president and the foreign head of state did not say nice and gentle things on each other.
Step 6: Report, citing anonymous sources, despite having said nice and sweet, publicly, private things, to tell the truth, the American president and his smiling guest cannot stand each other.
It was, in fact, the formula of most reports after French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made their pilgrimages in Washington last week to massage and appease Trump.
True to its unorthodox nature – to put it in a charitable way – Trump and its vice -president of the label – have turned this traditional script, either by design or instinctively, with Zelenskyy.
Journalists and experts left confused and disoriented. It is not supposed to happen as it happened, they groaned – apparently disappointed to act as journalists rather than stenographers.
Much of the hyperbolic indignation directed against Trump is not so much the product of what he said to Zelenskyy – since his antipathy towards Ukraine and his president was clear – but how and where he said: in the oval office before the television cameras.
This is what the United States minor chattering class considers a drooping and terrible row – Trump has reprimanded and openly intimidated its intimidation, when more discreet and “diplomatic” presidents repressed and intimidated to camera.
The blatant irony is that the American networks and the personalities that fill them exploit the “live” broadcasting to attract the public tempted by the urgency of now and the prospect that, at any time, real, uncompromising, the drama and the conflicts could burst.
The drama and the conflict worthy of interest broke out in the oval office on Friday, but instead of adopting it, these same networks and personalities withdrew and labeled it as improper and improper of the office of the presidency and the United States itself.
Here is a little news for Yapping ostriches:
In addition to lying with pathological ease and ordering others to kill without a sparkle of regrets or remorse, being rude, coarse and a brute is a prerequisite for an American – democrat or republican president.
Trump is no exception. It is the rule.
The administration of Pretty Boy, the president trained at Harvard, John F Kennedy, enlisted the mafia to try to assassinate the young and the charismatic chief of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and gave his tacit approval to a coup in early November 1963 which saw the overthrow of the government of South Vietnam and the assassination of President Dinh Diem.
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, was a four -inch boor who physically attacked much smaller officials who made him angry.
In 1965, a livid Johnson summoned the small Canadian minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, to Camp David for a rigid conversation after the noble laureate of peace denounced the American attack in northern Vietnam.
Johnson would have caught Pearson by the shirt pass, twisted it and raised the Prime Minister by the neck, shouting: “You have annoyed my carpet.”
The same year, an enraged Johnson pushed the then, the alarm, the Federal Reserve William Martin against a wall for having increased interest rates against the wishes of the president.
“The boys die in Vietnam, and Bill Martin does not care,” Tonter Johnson.
This avatar of presidential probity, Richard Nixon, ordered the CIA to block, thwart, undermine and destabilize the socialist president democratically elected from Chile, Salvador Allende.
And the obscene anti -Semitism of Nixon means that Zelenskyy seems rather temperate of Trump in comparison. He complained that Washington “is full of Jews” and that “most of the Jews are unfair”.
Whether experts in groans and television personalities are ready to recognize him or not, Trump was right. The fireworks of the sensational oval office made excellent television.
This time, we were aware of the amazing words and acts of the story of another president of “gangster” in real time, as happened.
The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeera.
