Miranda Devine: Trump is White House host with the most as he gives wide-ranging interview for debut podcast

When you meet Donald Trump, the archetypal happening you announcement is his hospitality. He is simply a bountiful big who ever wants to marque visitors consciousness comfortable.

He volition rather virtually connection you the nutrient disconnected his plate. He volition endure changeless bruises connected the backmost of his hands from well-wishers showing their gratitude with vigorous handshakes that helium reciprocates warmly, adjacent though he’s a renowned (maybe reformed) germaphobe.

He likes radical and is ever generous with his clip and attention. It’s a prime his detractors volition ne'er let but it has been a large portion of his success.

Whether it is rearranging portraits and beautifying the Oval Office oregon personally curating the songs astatine his rallies, helium obsesses implicit details that helium knows volition delight radical and make a convivial atmosphere. As 1 White House intimate says, "it’s a enactment each day" successful the Oval Office of the famously teetotaling president from Queens.

That was what I recovered Monday day erstwhile I arrived successful the White House for the archetypal interrogation of our caller podcast, "Pod Force One."

The person of the escaped satellite had kindly allocated 45 minutes to kickstart the enterprise, and had chosen the elegant, red-walled room arsenic his set. But archetypal helium ushered maine into the Oval Office to conscionable immoderate of his furniture gathered astir the Resolute Desk.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Homeland Security brag Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi and lawman main of unit Stephen Miller were determination to sermon pressing matters of state, but the president besides made definite to enactment everyone astatine easiness with a perfectly timed gag and effusive praise for his A team.

Wide-ranging talk

When helium yet arrived successful the room astatine 6 p.m. for the podcast, helium was inactive successful bully cheer contempt the momentous burdens helium carries. The LA riots were apical of mind, but his determination to reinstate "law and order" by calling retired the National Guard and sending successful the toughest Marines, implicit the objections of the feckless Gov. Gavin Newsom, was bullish instinct.

We covered everything from Elon to Iran, drones implicit New Jersey to the concealed of Joe Biden’s autopen (he knows however to spot the fake signatures).

As his Treasury and commerce secretaries, Scott Bessent ("straight retired of Central Casting") and Howard Lutnick ("a killer"), wrestled with the Chinese connected commercialized implicit a league array successful London, helium divulged that President Xi Jinping’s squad is "a small spoiled from having specified large occurrence against our negotiators" successful the past. No specified luck this time.

He was remarkably candid astir household life: his look for bully parenting (no drugs oregon alcohol!), the anticipation of a Trump governmental dynasty (you tin perceive Rosie O’Donnell screaming from Ireland!), wherefore his begetter bundled him disconnected to subject assemblage erstwhile helium was 13, his interior "genius" and the philharmonic instrumentality his parent had him larn arsenic a kid — you volition ne'er conjecture what it is!

He besides revealed what helium believes is the top constituent for occurrence erstwhile helium judges different people. You’ll person to tune successful to find out!

I anticipation you bash find the clip to listen. Love oregon hatred Donald Trump, helium is simply a singular antheral of past who is bending the satellite to his volition for the payment of the state helium loves.