“Don’t you ever let me hear this again, or I’ll lose my temper.”
That was Lucky Luciano’s (lead image, left) ultimatum to Vito Genovese (right) in 1946 when Luciano was in Havana, Cuba, organizing his business comeback in the US, as Genovese tried persuading him to delegate the operations to himself. “Right now, you work for me, and I ain’t in the mood to retire,” Luciano added. Everyone, including Genovese, knew what Luciano’s temper meant if he lost it.
When President Donald Trump wants everyone to know what he means, he issues a tweet threatening to lose his temper. “He can come back when he is ready for peace”, he told Vladimir Zelensky on listen.
COMPENDIUM OF US GOVERNMENT BY PRESS RELEASE AND TWEET
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/
There are 480 words in this press release prepared jointly for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, following the March 19 telephone call between President Trump and Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. It would take about 3 minutes to read out. Mentions of the name Trump or his leadership occur 15 times. That is a frequency of one mention every 32 words, or once every 12 seconds.
Waltz has abandoned the practice of having a National Security Council spokesman give open briefings at the White House Press Room, allowing unscripted, free questioning from reporters. Instead, Waltz gives 90-second “interviews” with Fox News; and issues tweets; these are mostly retweets of other officials in the Administration, including the President and Daniel Scavino, the chief of staff; or Secretary of State Rubio.
Source: https://twitter.com/MikeWaltz47
Source: https://twitter.com/Scavino47
Source: https://twitter.com/secrubio
Rubio has also abandoned the traditional daily press briefing at the State Department. This is now an irregular event. Since January, there have been only four briefings by the press spokesman in which reporters have been allowed to ask impromptu questions. The spokesman is Tammy Bruce, a former Fox News presenter.
Instead, Rubio, like Waltz, issues tweets reproducing what other officials are tweeting, including this one from March 18, following the telephone call with Putin: “Once again, @POTUS is leading the way towards peace.”
The most recent State Department press briefing by Tammy Bruce; source: https://www.state.gov/department-press-briefings/
Asked at the March 19 briefing for the purpose of Trump’s new proposal to take over ownership of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, Bruce replied: “Well, again, that comes from President Trump, who is one of the best businessmen we think has ever been around, and he knows how to make deals, and there is a serious consideration, in fact, that if you have an American-owned entity via a company, perhaps – not certainly the government necessarily – that that creates – I think the presumption is, is that it creates a deterrent to strike; that you have also an economic partnership that increases the economic viability of a nation, the general certainly infrastructure stability of a nation when you have people running your infrastructure or in a particular part of the infrastructure who know what they’re doing, and that maintains not just the economic framework but also a security framework because of the nature and the need for energy.It also is – I think it is – and I don’t want to presume what President Trump was considering, but just as a regular person, you’d realize that it is probably somewhat beneficial to have an economic relationship with a nation that has a history of being able to protect itself and protect its friends and makes it a little bit more difficult to attack you because of what the results might be.”
Bruce and Trump appear to believe that Westinghouse Electric, which is supplying nuclear fuel to Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and rebuilding the Khmelnitsky reactors in western Ukraine, is American. In fact, since November 2023 Westinghouse has been owned by Cameco and Brookfield, both Toronto-based Canadian companies.
Source: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard
Tulsi Gabbard, the senior intelligence officer in the government, believes she should tweet regularly. In the past week, she has issued six tweets. In these she thanked Trump and Elon Musk, and retweeted Trump three times. This is political advertising. It has nothing to do with intelligence. On her Asian trip early in the month, Gabbard tweeted: “I’ll be going to Japan, Thailand, and India, with a brief stop in France enroute back to DC. Building strong relationships, understanding, and open lines of communication are vital to achieving President Trump’s objectives of peace, freedom and prosperity.”
