A static shot of several minutes on… the unloading of luggage from Donald Trump’s plane: the trip on Monday April 3, from Florida to New York, of the former American president took place in a media frenzy that the main interested has certainly savored.
While the cameras are trained on the Boeing 757 stationary on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, filming the slightest maneuver while waiting for the billionaire to disembark, a CNN commentator blows that it’s all just even “surreal”.
She recalls that Donald Trump, who will appear on Tuesday in a case of fraud linked to the payment of money to a porn star, certainly turned on the television on the plane. And now Donald Trump, the first American president to be criminally indicted, is watching America watching him again.
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Monday was a reminder of how much, during his first campaign and then his presidency, the Republican fed on media fascination as much as journalists gorged themselves on his most outrageous remarks and his most improbable stagings. .
Starting with this declaration of candidacy of June 2015 preceded by a slow descent of the escalator, in the marble and the golden reflections of the Trump Tower, in Manhattan, where the former president will spend the night from Monday to Tuesday.
The entourage of the former businessman did not fail to point out that Donald Trump, former star of a reality show, had returned to the front of the stage. Eric Trump, his son, tweeted a photo taken on the plane, showing… the same plane, filmed live by Fox News before it left Florida, where Donald Trump now resides.
Jason Miller, a Republican adviser already campaigning for president in 2024, was happy to share screenshots showing all the major US TV channels, simulcasting his boss’s journey live.
For Donald Trump, there is no bad publicity
The CNN channel, in addition to an aerial view, even broadcast images of the plane’s arrival in New York filmed from a boat.
For the journey between the luxurious Mar a Lago residence and Palm Beach airport in Florida, the American media obviously mobilized helicopters to follow the convoy from the air – enough to recall the most famous sequence of its kind, the pursuit in 1994 by the police, live, of American football star OJ Simpson, accused of double murder.
Journalists began to line up nearly twenty-four hours in advance around the New York court where Donald Trump will have to learn about the criminal proceedings against him.
He will also have to give his name, age, profession, submit to a fingerprinting – and have his photo taken. Some newsrooms – anxious to preserve their stars before another marathon day on Tuesday – have used waiting professionals, who, for a fee, will face the freshness of the New York night and keep the coveted place.
It’s a safe bet that the show will delight the former president, even if it takes place in a priori unfavorable circumstances. In 1987, he wrote in his best-selling book “The Art of Negotiation” : “The funny thing is that even a critical, hurtful article can be very profitable for your business. » Or, to put it more simply: for Donald Trump, there is no bad publicity.