White House spokesman Hogan Gidley is pleased to inform us that his boss is not pathologically obsessed with television. Rather, "Trump’s highest priority is the health and safety of the American people," says Gidley.
It's a priority over which he obsesses daily, as he first watches seven uninterrupted hours of television news.
"Trump arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon," reports the Times. "He has been up in the White House master bedroom as early as 5 a.m. watching Fox News, then CNN, with a dollop of MSNBC thrown in for rage viewing."
After his Oval Office appearance, there's lunch, after which he avoids the task force meetings held in preparation for the White House coronavirus briefings, where he spends two hours rhetorically strutting before the television cameras.
Then dinner, perhaps with Melania.
Trump then "turns back to his constant companion, television. Upstairs in the White House private quarters — often in his own bedroom or in a nearby den — he flicks from channel to channel, reviewing his performance."
It's a full day. And we should be thankful that in this president's hands, every one is devoted to "the health and safety of the American people" by watching a blinding, mind-numbing amount of television — and rarely if ever devoting himself to world affairs or, God help us, our more general domestic welfare.
Trump tunes out by tuning in — and that's just fine with us.
We would all be better off if he just sat in front of the tv 24/7.
Posted by: Anne J | April 24, 2020 at 02:10 PM
It is a solitary pursuit for him. Thank God. The people with which he has surrounded himself are not known for their brilliant ideas.
Posted by: Peter G | April 24, 2020 at 08:38 PM