Donald Trump lost his speech on Friday, January 8 at the end of the afternoon, deprived of his personal Twitter account. Silenced. Prevented from diatribes and sharing of conspiratorial messages. Prohibited from capital letters, exclamation marks and syntax errors.
Unlike ordinary banned from the social network, he keeps at his disposal a press service, permanent journalists and a desk located about three minutes from the Oval office, behind which he can address his fellow citizens as well as the whole world. as often as he sings to her. But what more does he have to say after the explosion sparked by his supporters’ assault on Congress on January 6, which effectively brought his presidency to a premature and definitive end?
Confession obviously under pressure
In a federal capital where protective barriers are growing, the outgoing president is now walled up and the White House transformed into a sobering-up cell. The day after the chaos, two months to the day after the victory of Joe Biden, Donald Trump read with the serenity of a hostage a text in which he acknowledged that a new administration will take office on January 20, to which he had always refused.
This admission makes, obviously under the pressure of what remains of his entourage, what can he add when he has not had the slightest word in recent days about what should monopolize his position as president : the Covid-19 epidemic reaching dramatic heights, or unemployment rising again in December?
On Friday, his official agenda held in one sentence, as false as an international summit statement: “President Trump will be working from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will be making many calls and holding many meetings. “ It only elicited a little weary sneers, as Washington is in a hurry to end it. Vice President Mike Pence had been more honest by stating in a concise manner that he hadn’t planned any public events that day.
Worst humiliation
The vice-president, that “Patriots” praised by Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka benevolently promised to “Hang” Wednesday, because he refused to be the tool of the coup desired by the official guardian of the Constitution, would no longer speak with his superior, according to the American press. The provisional leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, would also have cut ties, like his wife Elaine Chao, resigned transport secretary, who joined the camp of outraged at the last hour.
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