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Most journalists covering so -called « power lounges » in Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, London, Paris and further prefer the routine over spontaneity.
You see, the predictability is easy. It is comforting because most capital cities are worldly places where boring is not only a pleasant fact on the ground, but also a predominant state of mind.
That is why the overflowing reaction to the lively President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Vice President JD Vance, donated the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the stubborn hobby of the White House Press Corps for the plate of the wine -powered vineta.
Unlike so many other spikes and columnists who rushed themselves instantly and almost universally towards family -friendly news networks to express their disbelief and shock for the « spectacle shame » of the Chief Commander of America, who « humiliated » his « war hero », I noticed the remarkable scenes that unfolded live on my computer screen.
Instead of seeing a piece of ensemble orchestrated and forgotten with dignitaries and smiling heads of state who visit an always polished president in the Oval Office, it was refreshing a blatant exhibition of the rawness, rudeness and brutality of the politics of power that often occur far from the cameras and, therefore, the journalists and the public.
They will be annoying to admit, but the Sea of scribes that was found as dumb mannequins, while Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy exchanged rhetoric bumps for several bruises rounds, expected another domestic day, pedestrian as many other pedestrian days at work.
They know the predictable role they play during these pantomimes choreography.
Step 1: Go to the Oval Office.
Step 2: Records the foreign head saying sympathetic and sweet things about the President of the United States.
Step 3: Registers the President of the United States saying sympathetic and sweet things about the foreign state.
Step 4: Inform that the President of the United States and the head of the foreign state said pleasant and sweet things.
Step 5: Later, call sources who say that in private, the President of the United States and the foreign state head did not say pleasant and sweet things.
Step 6: Report, citing anonymous sources, who, despite saying sympathetic and sweet things, publicly, privately, who is called the truth, the President of the United States and his smiley guest cannot support each other.
Indeed, this was the formic arch of most of the reports after French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made their pilgrimages in Washington last week to massage and molast Trump.
True to its unorthodox nature, to say – Trump, Trump and his Vice President of Clawing – increased that traditional script, either by design or instinctively, with Zelenskyy.
Journalists and spikes were confused and disoriented. This is not supposed to happen in the way that has happened, they were reminiscent, apparently, having to act as journalists instead of stenographers.
Much of the hyperbolic outrage heading to Trump is the product not so much of what Zelenskyy said, as his antipathy towards Ukraine and his president has been clear, but how and where he said: in the Oval office before television cameras.
This is what considers the class of talks of the Gentilia of America so rank and horrible: Trump made his mockery and harassment openly, when the most discreet and « diplomatic » presidents make their boiling and harassment at the closed doors.
The glittering irony is that the North -American networks and the personalities who populate them take advantage of the spread of « live » to attract the audience tempted by the urgency of now and the perspective that, at any time, real, not manufactured, drama and conflict could explode.
Drama and night conflict exploded in the Oval Office on Friday, but instead of embracing it, the same networks and personalities recovered and labeled it as insensitive and carefree from the Presidency Office and the United States.
Here is some news for Yapping ostriches:
Apart from lying with pathological ease and ordering others to kill without a remorse or remorse, being rude, raw and dirty is a previous work of any President of the United States: Democratic or Republican.
Trump is not the exception. It is the rule.
The administration of Pretty Boy, the President of Harvard, John F Kennedy, enlisted the Mafia to try to assassinate the young and charismatic Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, and gave tacit approval to a coup in early November 1963, who saw the demolition of the South Vietnam government and the murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, was a six -footed four -inch boor who physically assaulted much smaller public servants who were angry.
In 1965, a Livid Johnson called the diminutive Prime Minister of Canada, Lester Pearson, at David’s camp to talk with a hard conversation after the Peace noble prize winner denounced the north -American bombing of North Vietnam.
According to reports, Johnson picked up Pearson on the shirt collet, twisted him and raised the Prime Minister on his neck, shouting, « You fit into my rug. »
That same year, an angry Johnson pushed the then President of the Federal Reserve William Martin against a wall for increasing interest rates against the President’s wishes.
« The boys die in Vietnam and Bill Martin does not care, » Johnson shakes.
The avatar of the presidential probability, Richard Nixon, ordered the CIA to block, frustrate, harm and destabilize the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende.
And Nixon’s obscene anti -Semitism causes Trump to Zelenskyy’s burning observations to seem rather temperate, compared. He complained about tape that Washington « is full of Jews » and that « most Jews are unfair. »
Whether the television punctures and personalities are ready to recognize it or not, Trump was right. The sensational Oval Fireworks office made for a great television.
This time we were available to the amazing, words and minutes of the history of another « gangster » president in real time, as it happened.
The opinions expressed in this article are their own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial position.
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