The days of Donald Trump: locked in the White House, between silence and angry tweets

November 12. 10:00 am: Call time for the indoor pool (something like a meeting with the accredited press at the White House). 12:30 p.m.: lunch with Mike Pence. 16.00: Meeting with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury in the Oval Office. And that’s about all Donald Trump had planned to do this Thursday. Apart from Wednesday’s departure to Arlington cemetery for Veteran’s Day, his days have been like this since he lost the American election: locked in the White House, between silence and angry tweets.

When the president delivered a very presidential appreciation at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington on Wednesday, the U.S. government seemed to breathe some normalcy. But this Thursday, Trump returned to his lair, a cave he doesn’t want to give up.

Because in fact, on Wednesday, Trump only spent 10 minutes in public honoring American veterans. It was a brief semblance of normalcy in a White House who was paralyzed by a defeated president weighing his options, largely abstaining from his governmental duties and blocking his inevitable successor: Joe Biden

Trump’s presence at the annual Veterans Day commemoration ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was his first official public event in more than a week. Passed the last days of incarceration and laying baseless charges electoral fraud via Twitter.

The president has not commented in person since Democrat Joe Biden secured the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency on Saturday.

Meanwhile, their advisers are increasingly convinced that their legal resources will not modify the result election, according to seven campaign and White House officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal the thinking of the president and other members of the executive residence.

Before leaving for the solemn ceremony in Arlington, Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to attack the the “fake pollsters” and complaining that a Republican city commissioner who defended vote counting in Philadelphia was not a true Republican. He also tried to draw attention to a polling officer in that town who charges retracted fraud in Tuesday’s election, before ratifying his charges a day later.

Trump later released a discredited video of poll workers allegedly collecting votes after the deadline.

“What you see are votes! This is what our country has come to?” Trump denounced.

Staff movements

Although his official agenda did not have any public events, the president held several staff movements– He sacked Defense Secretary Mark Esper and installed three very loyal officials in defense posts. His candidate for acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller, was one of the Pentagon officers who accompanied him on his visit to Arlington.

Some supporters have refuted the idea that Trump is shirking his presidential office.

“The president is more active than ever on Twitter, and the White House team is advancing its budget and personnel priorities,” said Dan Eberhart, a prominent Republican donor and Trump supporter.

“Naturally, the president is focused on the vote count, but soon he will have to return to the end of term government functions and put the finishing touches on his first four years,” he added.

Although this week he’s late in the Oval Office for two nights, Trump little done with regard to governance and instead carried out phone calls. He called out sympathetic governors _ in Republican-leaning states like Arizona, Texas and Florida _ and conservative media confidants influencing the public.

As he ponders his options, the President stopped participating in daily work of the government of the nation: according to your work schedule, you did not participate no intelligence meeting within weeks, and the White House has done little lately to control the pandemic, which has many states with the highest levels of cases on record.

The president’s resistance to recognizing the outcome of the competition caused deadlock in the transition process. The Director of General Services Administration, appointed by Trump, refrained from certifying Biden as the winner of the election.

Such a certification, known as verification, would free up money for the transition and allow Biden’s team to begin placing transition staff in federal agencies.

With information from the Associated Press

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