Twelve Cokes and eight hours of television: this is a day in the life of Donald Trump
Donald Trump drinks about 4.3 liters of Diet Coke a day. That means 12 360-milliliter cans, which in turn means about 564 milligrams of caffeine. Or, put another way, the equivalent of about 11 coffees.
It is not a healthy dose. But nothing is in the daily routine of the President of the United States. Trump has been sleeping five to six hours a day for decades. And he professes a very peculiar scientific philosophy that leads him to believe in the power of genetics - to an extent that some believe brings him closer to eugenics, that is, to the theory that the human species is perfectible simply by 'crossing' individuals. healthier - and in that each person has only a certain amount of energy that they can use. Hence comes his rejection of him for sports activities. With one exception: golf. In his presidency, Trump has gone to practice the sport 79 times since he arrived at the White House. That means that, on average, the president spends one out of every four days on the green. Not bad for someone who accused Barack Obama of spending all his time playing golf.
But even if he doesn't exercise, Trump is hyperactive. He gets up around 5:30 in the morning. And the first thing he does is turn on the television. 'Morning Joe', from his allies, now fierce enemies, Joe Scarborough (whom he indirectly accused of murder on Twitter three weeks ago) and Mika Brzezinski, and CNN to sulk; Rupert Murdoch's Fox News's 'Fox and Friends' to get an injection of optimism. According to the journalists of 'The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, who have been working since September on a book about Trump's White House, the president's advisers know in what mood he will be based on what he sees from the bed.
TWEET BY INSTINCT
Morning shows also often determine Trump's tweets, who on occasion, according to Haberman and Thrush, starts tweeting from bed. A bed that no one knows for sure if he shares with his wife Melania Trump, with whom, it is said, he has a rather arctic relationship. In fact, Melania was considering in 2015 the possibility of moving to her native Slovenia with the son she has with the president, Barron, who suffers from an autism spectrum disease - something possibly difficult for someone like Trump to accept, who firmly believes that her genetic endowment is out of this world - until her husband entered politics and was forced to play the role of vase-woman, first in New York, then in the United States.
Like almost everything he does, Trump instinctively tweets. Often, he does so against the opinion of his collaborators. Of course, when they tell him something, his argument is irrefutable: he has won the White House with those instincts, against the opinion of the entire political class, of all consultants - or, at least, of those considered 'serious' - and , in general, of all those who supposedly 'know'. When he is about to turn one year in the Oval Office, Trump has the lowest popularity in history, but he dominates the political landscape of the United States, and he is about to achieve a tax reform that brutally attacks the Democratic states already his voter base - low-income whites - and he lowers the tax burden on himself, his children, and big business and investors.
Not bad for someone who spends four to eight hours a day watching television news networks. Mainly Fox News - to cheer up - and CNN and MSNBC - to get angry -. Even in meetings with his advisers, Trump has a television monitor set to zero, which he frequently looks at for news headlines. It's part of his proverbial lack of concentration, which led an old acquaintance of the president from his years as a real estate developer in New York to say, "I can't believe the 'Russian plot' for the simple reason that Donald can't. to spend fifteen minutes sitting and not speaking. "
NEITHER ALCOHOL NOR TOBACCO, EVER
Television news programs are critical in the world view of the US head of state. It is one more feature of its heterodox character, of its tendency to skip hierarchies, to establish its own teams, which function in parallel with the Public Administration. Trump's advisers have the most diverse backgrounds. There's Omarosa Manigault, a former contestant on his reality show "The Apprentice" with no formal education and was for months one of the president's top political advisers until she was fired in a screaming scandal at the White House this week. Or former New York cop Keith Schiller. Or, at the other extreme, financiers John Paulson (who made $ 3.4 billion gambling on the housing market crash in 2008) and Carl Icahn (who had to resign from the position of adviser to the president in August after the press revealed that he was trying to modify the regulation on the use of ethanol to favor a refinery he owned).
Trump's day begins to wind down around 6 p.m., with a rather informal dinner at the White House, with well-done grilled steak, bacon, salad with Roquefort sauce, and gravy. There is no alcohol, because Trump has not smoked or drunk in his life, and he also feels animosity for drink and tobacco, following the death of his older brother and his father's favorite, 'Fred', for his alcoholism. It is the most social time of the day, in which the president usually invites people to the White House, chat with them, and show them around the building. And also the occasion to get into your body all the sugar that the twelve diet cokes did not have, because dinner usually ends with huge ice cream and cake desserts. Precisely, in the middle of one of those desserts, he decided to bomb Syria in April. "It was the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you have ever seen," Trump told Fox Business reporter Maria Martiromo.
After dinner, Trump usually spends a few more hours watching television. Again, Fox if he's in a good mood, or CNN or MSNBC if he wants to see something to turn up his tension. Around midnight, he is already in bed. Another day in the life of the leader of the free world.
