With Trump in the White House, Washington, D.C., is a much different and much better place. But the reasons why went well beyond my personal preference politically. The way Trump treated some of these rogue district court judges who were corrupt beyond measure into thinking that they could control the Executive Branch has been long needed. Even with Trump serving as chairman at the Kennedy Center and complaining about how poorly constructed and managed the place is and how dysfunctional the union rules were some of the next layered attributes that I found personally very refreshing. I have been thrilled that Trump is in our White House, but to understand how and why, I needed to visit it again. I’ve been to the White House before, back in the 90s. And since then, I’ve just driven around it. But only recently did I take the time to walk around it and spend significant time there, which my wife and I did. We spent a whole day going to the Visitor’s Center of the White House, getting into the details from a tourist standpoint, and understanding how the White House saw itself. We walked all around the surrounding area, spent a lot of time at the Mall, and ended up at the end of the day at the McDonald’s just off Pennsylvania Avenue just west of the White House front gates. I knew that was the McDonald’s that White House aides would go to for Trump, and I wanted to see how it looked and get a feel for even how the guard shack interacted with White House employees and the media as they came and went. And I think I found the answer I was looking for at the Visitor’s Center with the short 15-minute film they show there, which hadn’t been updated with any of the modern presidents, but it certainly captured the crises as Washington D.C. saw it, and why people like me were happy Trump is now there.
The film had voice reflections of former presidents, such as George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, and their wives talking about life in the White House, and there was a common theme between them all. They remembered their time in the White House as a stepping up into a role that they all missed once it was over. Unlike other leadership positions in the world, the People of America granted power through elections to their Chief Executive, and up until President Trump, those people were put into elevated positions represented by the White House. However, if you go through the history of the White House, Europeans thought that the President’s residence was too small and not filled with enough grandeur to represent the most powerful country in the world. After all, just a few months after it had been built and commissioned, Thomas Jefferson was the first to occupy it thoroughly, and he was never entirely comfortable with its presence of power, being an anti-federalist as he was. The British burnt the White House during the Madison administration, right after Jefferson’s time there, during the War of 1812. The world did not want America to get its foot into the seat of power, and they were eager to destroy the growing country before it could become too big for itself. So, the White House was never built to be too lofty and ambitious. It was a gift from the American people to the person they voted for to run the country on their behalf. But it was never built to give anybody any fancy ideas of being too assertive or kingly, which was always the point.
As a self-made billionaire, Trump lives in places much better than the White House. And we all knew it before we voted for him. And I think we understood why we wanted that subconsciously. It’s evident by the White House Visitor’s Center film that the kind of people we have had as President was too enamored by the power of the White House to do what we needed them to do with it genuinely. They were too caught up in the titles and world respect that came with the office, while Trump had all that before becoming President. Stepping back into the White House for his second term, it’s a step down for Trump. When you don’t care about the social aspects of a job, it allows you to be much more critical and practical. What does Trump have to prove to anybody? He’s already achieved everything, so the White House doesn’t make him anything special. For him, it’s just an office where he performs executive functions. He isn’t made by the place the way other presidents were. It was obvious that the White House Visitor’s Center was unsure how to present Trump’s first term there because their selling point was to present it as luxurious and ceremonial. And Trump’s attitude is more of a sacrifice in living than being consistent with other past presidents who felt elevated by the power of the office, and once it was gone from them, they missed it forever. Obama had serious problems, based on his interviews in the short film, with giving power back at the end of his term, which we now know he clung to a third shadow term through Joe Biden. And it was all very shameful because the office made him who he was. He wasn’t a very important person without the White House or its status. Trump, on the other hand, was the same person no matter where he was.
And that’s what I wanted to see, and it was almost funny to watch the human struggle with this strange power arrangement. There was virtually no reference to Trump near the White House, especially at the Visitor’s Center. Trump has been affiliated with the White House for at least 8 years, with this new first term being the 9th, so it has been almost a decade. So everyone has had plenty of time to show the Trumps as part of the Executive Mansion on Visitor’s Center updates. The way they sold the White House to the public was a story of how ordinary people were made more significant by the title of the Office, and once their term was over, they returned to being the very ordinary people they were before. However, as voters, we have not been happy with this process, so we wanted to put people of exception and accomplishment in the White House. And Trump offered himself after living a good and successful life. So we put him in the office now with three election cycles. His story and approach do not match the official narrative of past presidents. But it was their lack of loftiness that we wanted to avoid. We can’t trust politicians who are made who they are by the efforts we give them. We want accomplished people who already have all the money in the world and the treasures of living at their disposal so that they can manage our affairs honestly and with the same lack of fear that made them successful in the first place. Even if for Trump, that means stepping down into the White House to give back to his country. This is in contrast to all the past presidents who were made valuable because they lived in the White House for a small part of their lives. For them, that was their most significant accomplishment. And once it was over, they were sad. However, the White House was just another day at the office with Trump. And over the years, he’s had many of those kinds of offices, which were better and more luxurious than the one at the White House.
Rich Hoffman
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