The calm, chatty, discursive and, above all, confident Trump we witnessed in the Oval Office after the day of ceremonies and speeches was different to the Trumps we saw earlier.
Donald Trump sat at the Resolute Desk signing executive orders for the cameras and taking questions from a small pool of journalists clumped in the Oval Office. The orders traversed his pardons for the January 6 rioters, the ceasefire in the Middle East, immigration, tariffs, energy, Greenland – you name it.
And though they all share the same fixations and grievances, each Trump we encountered showed us another iteration of the 47th president.: still vindictive and aggrieved, but controlled, on message and maybe even a little humbled by the occasion. Later, he explained that Vice President J.D. Vance had counselled him to take out of the speech “some really rough stuff” – rants about the January 6 insurrectionists and Biden’s decision to pardon his family before leaving office, among others.
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