CNN drew attention to the fact that Donald Trump remains largely outside the public on the first day of the government’s first closure of his second term.
The anchor Erin Burnett launched Booming Note that the president, who “likes to be seen”, had made no statement in person on Wednesday public. Although Trump posted occasionally on Truth Social and recorded an interview with Oann, his withdrawal from the spotlight was still in contrast to the way he presented himself in recent weeks.
“We haven’t seen Trump today. We haven’t heard of Trump today. We did not hear his voice, ”started Burnett. “The first day of government closure, as the Trump administration says, the layoffs are imminent, there is no sign of the President of the United States. And it is not a secret for anyone, all over the world that Trump likes to be seen.”
Burnett then showed that Trump was doing various things in front of the cameras – sign decrees, talking to journalists outside the White House and attending a state dinner in the United Kingdom, for example – in recent weeks.
Unlike the last two weeks, Trump did not make a public appearance on Wednesday, the first day of government closure. / CNN
“He likes to seize the moment, but today, we have not seen him anywhere at 7:00 p.m., while a government closure enters his 19th endless time in sight, and Trump’s team threatens imminent layoffs,” she noted.
It may be because Trump does not want the public to associate it with the closure, said the chief correspondent for CNN national affairs, Jeff Zelery.
“”[Trump’s absence] The signals first and above all, he does not want to be in front or the face of this closure, at least in his opening day, “said Zeleny.” Of course, it could change and will probably change over the hours and days. “”
Zeleny added that Trump’s withdrawal of the spotlight “does not mean that the president and his administration officials do not do things behind the scenes, because they are”, quoting the administration which would move around $ 26 billion in previously approved funding, the majority of which were for the Democratic States.
“After talking about a variety of civil servants here at the White House and around the President, they also believe that there can be a possibility of having some democrats on board voted,” continued Zelely, referring to the proposal to finance the GOP government.
“They believe that the point of pain is large enough. This is one of the reasons, according to an official, that the president was not in front by pushing people directly. ”
When he was contacted to comment, the White House spokesman Abigail Jackson did not respond directly to the absence of Trump.
“The Trump administration wants a simple and clean SO to continue to finance the government – exactly the same proposal that the Democrats supported only 6 months ago, 13 times under the Biden administration,” Jackson told Daily Beast in a statement. “But the radical democrats have closed the government because they want a list of wishes of nearly 1.5 billion of dollars, including free health care for illegal foreigners. The order of the radical democrat of the Democrat was rejected by the American people less than a year ago in the ballot boxes, now they closed the government and hold the American people while.”
However, the democratic budgetary proposal would not modify the law to allow unauthorized immigrants to buy health insurance on the exchange of the federal government, as The New York Times Notes.
Later in the CNN show, former Washington Post The columnist Philip Bump said that it is possible that Trump “understands that solving this means not to fight with the Democrats beyond what he already has”.
“It can also be a reflection that he is distracted by something else, which is also happening with President Trump,” added Bump.
