On the first night of his second presidency, Donald J. Trump was back in the Oval Office, doing something he sorely missed during those four long years out of power: mixing it up with the White House press corps.
“Nice to see you again!” he said as a pack of reporters crowded in front of the Resolute Desk and began volleying huge, consequential questions about Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza across it.
“Stranger things have happened,” he mused playfully when asked if he might send Special Forces across the southern border. “That’s a big one!” he ooh-ed dramatically when an aide presented him with an executive order declaring Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations. He discovered a letter left for him in the desk by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and began to wave it around in the air — another shiny object to draw the cameras in a little closer.
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