Welcome to today’s show. I’m your host, and today we’re diving into a day in the live-streamed life of President Trump. He’s discarded the rigid fifteen-minute schedule of past presidents and now spends his “executive time” watching cable TV, tweeting, then watching the coverage of his tweets. In his second term, he’s turned the Oval Office into a nonstop broadcast booth, summoning a handpicked press pool multiple times a day instead of holding formal East Room briefings.

On Thursday, at 10:48 a.m., Trump announced a “very big and exciting” U.S.–U.K. trade deal—really just an agreement in principle. “In the coming weeks, we’ll have it all very conclusive,” he promised, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick praised him: “He gets deals done that we could never get done.” He’s rebranded his old NAFTA replacement a “transitional deal” after once calling it “the largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history.”

He quipped that Fed Chair Jerome Powell “probably isn’t in love with me,” mocked Chuck Schumer’s sympathy for Palestinians, and even weighed in on Newark’s air-traffic meltdown. By the end of the day, after appearances with Melania, Tiger Woods, and even commentary on the new Pope, he had claimed credit for it all—proving there’s nothing Donald Trump won’t make his own.
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