Advertisement
Supported by
Criticism
The opening of the president’s moment with a dark belief and ended with a signing of a real TV document.
By James Poniewozik
Donald J. Trump has tried to decide on his own level parameters, be it a television convention room incorporated in “The Amprentice” or passing through the Trump tower staircase in 2015. At the time, nature has made the selection Of this: the climate for the subnet in Washington caused the opportunity to move inside, to the roundabout of the American Capitol.
With the rite beyond a massive audience that buys edible mediated from an intimate room, television even more of the same, the maximum productive tactics for the maximum of us to get a ticket. A classic outdoor rite not only allows more citizens to attend; He created the theater of the Opening. The new president meets other people under the broad sky; The crowd supplies a backdrop and a collective reaction: the symbol, at least, of the democratic voice of the other people.
The inauguration rite on Monday, celebrated in front of a crowd decided in the adorned and silent room, looked more like a wedding (or funeral) or a black tie gala, a small V. I. P. occasion when the masses simply do not pass through the TV window.
This feeling of exclusivity stressed through the visitors who is who (Joe Rogan! Jake Paul!), That the cameras chose as in a red carpet. The rotating platform dotted with a rich person and multimillionaire media, adding Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. If a presidential inauguration is the Super Bowl of American politics, this time, we were looking for the occasion of the owner’s box.
The media policy of the day on the wall tried the moment at the inauguration of Mr. Trump as something familiar and very unusual. (The occasion was, as Anderson Cooper said in CNN, “a passage from ancient to the new, which is also the old man”).
Part of this, of course, is due to the decoration and the dark memories it evoked. A little over 4 years ago, the same networks covered as a large number of Trump supporters crossed the roundabout, after attacking the police and crossing the Capitol to avoid the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory in 2020.
We have recovering the content of the article.
JavaScript turn on in the configuration of your browser.
Thanks for your patience while we review access. If you are in reading mode, leave and attach to your Times account, or subscribe to all the time.
Thanks for your patience while we review access.
Already signed? Connect.
Do you want all the time? Subscribe.
Advertisement