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During the spring government crisis, Donald Trump has chosen to grant eighteen interviews to Bob Woodward.
Eighteen!
Woodward is the most famous name in American journalism, an investigative reporter who has held every administration hostage since Nixon. The president he and his colleague Carl Bernstein kicked out of the White House via the Watergate revelation in the Washington Post.
Trump often wants to ring He pretends he’s on the side of the common man against the elite. In fact, one of Trump’s driving forces is winning confirmation from the elite. Which probably explains his fatal decision to appear for eighteen interviews with Woodward in this critical position of the presidency.
In one of these eighteen conversations, Trump has wanted to appear reasonable to Woodward, as a well-informed and insightful man. Trump tells Woodward that the coronavirus is deadly dangerous, far more dangerous than a regular flu. It will be difficult to stop the spread of the infection.
Around the same time, in February of this year, Trump tells the American people that the coronavirus is a baggis, a piece of shit from China that will miraculously disappear when spring arrives. Don’t worry, keep living your lives as usual, says the president.
Extremely cynical. Disorienting your population, urging them to ignore the danger of the virus while at the same time sitting on information about the mortality of the infection, seems almost murderous.
But the double message they are at the same time quite typical of Trump and parts of his party. There are Republican politicians in Congress who played COVID-19 in front of their voters while informing those in power in closed rooms in Washington about the real risks of the virus. Some even took the opportunity to adjust their stock assets based on forecasts of how the pandemic would affect the US economy.
These double messages appear to be a fundamental part of Trump’s right-wing populism. A few weeks ago, the Washington Post published a recording in which Trump’s own sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired judge, says that all Trump wants is to satisfy her grassroots voters. “It has no principles. No. None”, clarified the sister.
Lack of principle makes Trump hyper-flexible. It is not certain that the president himself perceives the diametrically different messages about Covid-19 as a betrayal of the American people. Rather, you probably consider flexibility one of your greatest assets. One second he was trying to keep American consumers in a good mood. Bob Woodwards’ second second Confidence win. If it requires double messages? And that?
Trump rules in a constant now, in an eternal presence. There are no lasting truths, only the desire for short-term strategic victories.
Talking to Bob Woodward, a handsome man with a velvety voice, he was probably welcoming while it lasted. Perhaps even comforting for the president. He felt like one of the gang.
But confidentiality has a price. The presidency? I’m not sure. But quotes from the eighteen interviews are said to plague Trump every day until the Nov. 3 election.
