Keeping with the Trump, Trump, Trump, theme that continues to dominate the news, I want to single out Miranda Devine’s New York Post column “Inside Trump’s hectic day-to-day schedule – with prez revealing the phrase that keeps going through his mind when he first wakes up.” Devine takes us inside Trump’s mind. It’s not quite in the Joycean style, with the tortured twists and turns of Leopold Bloom or the lyrical ecstasies of Molly Bloom. Devine reports (please note that I added the close quotation mark after the second “business”):
When he wakes up, the first thing that goes through his mind, he says, is “business. Everything’s business.”
Now, it’s political business.
I take it that chief of staff Susie Wiles is keeping the Trump train on the tracks:
“We have a country to save,” his chief of staff Susie Wiles tells supporters when explaining the breakneck pace.
Devine quotes Trump saying this out loud, but I’m sure it’s been running through his mind since January 20 as well:
“There’s no thoughts of leisure, no going to the beach like Sleepy Joe Biden did and falling asleep in front of the press. How do you fall asleep in front of the press?”
I can answer that question, but it is of the rhetorical variety.
Devine also gives us a glimpse of the Trumpian sense of humor. However, the unfunny presence of Tucker Carlson reflects the worm in the apple:
Trump was amused Thursday night in the Oval Office when an ebullient Musk and journalist Tucker Carlson turned up for a chat, both wearing ridiculously over-sized red MAGA hats.
Trump has turned a small space off the Oval Office, one that he used to call “The Monica Room,” into a merch display with every variation of MAGA hat arrayed on shelves, including Musk’s favorite black on black, as well as golden shoes, water bottles and copies of his coffee-table books.
Quotable quote:
After their chat, Musk posted on his X platform.
“I love Donald Trump as much as a straight man can love another man.”
Whole thing here.
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