David Pakman

We now have these stretches where we have no idea what Donald Trump is doing.

Sometimes it's 18 hours of the day where we know where he is and what he's doing for five or six hours.

And then he reappears.

It's very tightly controlled.

The events are staged.

It's, you know, formal dinner with world leaders.

And then he disappears again from any real time decision making visibility.

At the exact same time, you've got policy and military operations unfolding.

When the Iran strikes were launched, we have pictures of Trump at Mar-a-Lago running things from a makeshift set up during a gala where it clearly wasn't even a skiff.

They had like black curtains, totally insane from an informational security standpoint.

And there's a picture of J.D.

Vance at the White House Situation Room.

Think about that.

The vice president in the Situation Room during new active military operations and Trump is at a resort hosting an event.

This is not about the way it looks.

You know, the the defenders go, oh, you know, the optics of this administration are different.

Trump's different.

This is the structure of the whole thing.

And it really says something about how decisions are being made.

Military operations don't pause because you've got a gala or because you want to golf.