The senator has had a dozen productive days.
He held a press conference on Monday, which spanned the Middle East hostage crisis to the frontier roof, for which he spoke for more than an hour. On Saturday, he attended the famous Army-Navy basketball game. Last Sunday, his interview with NBC News ‘” Meet the Press” aired, also more than an hour. He met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the Ukraine-Russia battle earlier this month, addressed the ancient Notre Dame cathedral’s reopening, and threatened “hell to pay” for the release of Hamas terrorist victims. Just weeks prior to that, he had a similar conversation with the Mexican president and met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to talk about the drugs and people humans trafficked into the United States across the borders.
In the meantime, Joe Biden spent Thanksgiving in Nantucket, got lost live in Africa, and attended a dozen social functions in Washington, D. C.
Donald Trump didn’t get inaugurated for another 33 time, but he, Joe Biden, and the rest of the world are all acting like he’s the leader now.
For instance, Trump gained the attention of both Trudeau and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on November 25 by promising to impose” a 25 % tax on ALL items entering the United States” from both borders nations if they continue to ignore the wave of illegal aliens and materials pouring across the border. Two days later, Sheinbaum and Trump had what he called a “very successful talk” about Mexico’s part in putting a halt to the border war.
The L.A. Times reported that a week later,” Sheinbaum announced the arrest of more than a ton of morphine in two attacks in the state of Sinaloa.” Times with the article” Mexico cracks down on medicines and workers”
In contrast to Trump’s tax risk, Trudeau flew on a helicopter to his Palm Beach apartment to dine with him the day after Thanksgiving. In a post afterward thanking Trump for dinner, Trudeau said he , “look]ed ] forward to the work we can do together”.
Trump threatened on December 2 that” there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East” if the victims aren’t released before January 20, 2025, the day I boldly assume business as president of the United States.” According to Barron’s,” Jewish diplomats have never been closer to a bargain for the release of victims in Gaza” since November of last year, citing Jewish and Hamas options.
Trump arrived in Paris after that year to enjoy the reopening of Notre Dame after it burned in 2019. ( Joe Biden declined to attend, sending his wife instead. ) Trump and Zelensky met with French President Emmanuel Macron and called for an “immediate peace and negotiations” to put an end to the Ukrainian conflict.
Between that, Trump has found occasion to network foreign dignitaries like Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, and Akie Abe, the lady of murdered Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Mark Zuckerberg, whose firm helped valve reporting that would have hurt Donald Trump’s player in the 2020 election, even dined with Trump at the approaching government’s Mar-a-Lago house a few weeks ago. Shortly afterward, Zuckerberg’s Meta meta-donates-1-million-trump-inauguration-fund-zuckerberg-mar-lago-mee-rcna184014″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>donated$ 1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund. Trump is also scheduled to meet with Sundar Pichai, the CEO of TikTok, and Sundar Pichai, the president of TikTok, at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
In last Sunday’s” Meet the Press”, sit-down with Kristen Welker, he laid out his priorities for his first 100 days and discussed tariff negotiations, the border crisis, his Cabinet picks, government healthcare, abortion, foreign relations, the war in Ukraine, lawfare and political prisoners, vaccines, government waste, the hostage crisis in Gaza, China’s influence via TikTok, and the media. When was the last moment the leader who was in office answered questions unscripted on any of those subjects?
In a press conference Monday, just about a week after” Meet the Press” aired, Trump announced a deal in which Japan’s SoftBank Group pledged a$ 100 billion investment” creating 100, 000 American jobs at a minimum”. After that, he answered writers ‘ issues for about 45 days, during which time he also reassured Americans about new viral aircraft observations in New Jersey, everything the current president has yet to say.
One of the biggest issues with Trump’s subsequent term has been whether he will be able to hit the floor running on day one, despite the fact that he has been subject to restriction at every turn since he took office in 2016. From the looks of things, he’s never doing just that — he’s getting a two-month head stop.
Elle Purnell is the elections director at The Federalist. Her job has been featured by Fox Business, RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She received a B. Patrick Henry College offers an A. in state with a media small. Following her on Twitter @_ellepurnell.
