With the 2nd Trump impeachment trial over…
The media begins to turn to the new President….
NOT bombastic and chaotic…
And more over just the regular guy that isn’t because he’s the American President….
He seems at home and IS accessible ….
After all?
He DID have an office in the White House 4 years ago for Eight years….
As Biden settles into a job he has been seeking on-and-off for three decades, the daily routine of being president — with a phalanx of Secret Service agents, regular updates on the nation’s top secrets and an ever-present press corps — has come more naturally for him than for his more recent predecessors.
He has established a regular schedule, including coffee in the mornings with the first lady, meetings and phone calls from the Oval Office starting just after 9 a.m. and a return to his residence by 7 p.m. As he walks home along the Colonnade, he’s often seen carrying a stack of binders or manila folders under one arm. He still brings a brown leather briefcase into the office
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He has continued a tradition of reading letters from Americans, a handful of which are tucked into the briefing materials he brings home in the evenings. Recently they have focused on the pandemic; Biden has also spoken by video conference with business owners and laid-off workers weathering the economic crisis.
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He has spent more time working in Washington than any president in decades. His adjustment period inside the executive mansion has been minimal.
“It feels like I am going home,” he said as he entered the White House on Inauguration Day. Though he had never lived in the building previously, it was a return of sorts for a man who has wanted to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for years.
He has found his old stomping grounds familiar, dropping into his onetime office in the West Wing one day last week to show his new vice president the place on the window where his wife wrote him a Valentine’s Day greeting in 2009.
He’s made surprise visits to other offices in the building as well, asking staffers what they are working on or consulting them on specific questions related to his Covid-19 relief plan.
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And he hasn’t been put off by the pack of reporters who track his every move. He’s shown more willingness to answer shouted questions than Obama was, weighing in on his predecessor’s impeachment trial even as the White House insisted he was focused on other things.
The President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified update on the country’s top intelligence, is back to a daily occurrence after happening only sporadically under Trump. Joined in the Oval Office by Vice President Kamala Harris — who has used an iPad to receive the briefing, like Obama — Biden is run through the update by a range of intelligence professionals….
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President Biden said he’s “tired of talking about” former President Trump during a CNN town hall on Tuesday.
“For four years, all that’s been in the news is Trump. The next four years, I want to make sure all the news is the American people. I’m tired of talking about Trump,” Biden said when asked about Trump being acquitted by the Senate over the weekend during a second impeachment trial.
Biden had avoided referring to Trump by name previously, calling him “the former guy” at one point during the town hall. The president and his top aides have generally sought not to bring up Trump’s name in public remarks, instead referring generally to the previous administration….
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Kaitlan Collins
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Biden says all living former presidents have called him — with the exception of one.