Jonathan Lemire: “Since his return to workplace, President Donald Trump has missed few possibilities to flex the facility he wields over the nation’s most formidable establishments and its wealthiest folks. So when the White Home introduced that Trump would host the newest in a collection of dinners with high enterprise executives, this time together with JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon and the chief government of Nasdaq, reporters within the White Home press pool ready to look at Trump exhibit.”
“Nope. Final night time’s dinner was closed to the press. No reporter was even given a look. And later, when the White Home held a signing ceremony for the president to formally finish the longest federal-government shutdown in historical past, the reporters current have been shortly whisked out of the Oval Workplace. Immediately, too, he didn’t discuss to the press after signing an government order alongside the primary girl within the East Room. The president, to be clear, had not immediately grow to be camera-shy. However he had indicated to aides that he didn’t wish to face reporters’ questions, as a result of each inquiry was going to be in regards to the one topic that Trump, for all his energy, merely can’t make go away.”
