As Trump has awakened me on an unexpected interview

Donald Trump makes the habit of calling a blue journalist. It seems US president prefers out of the cuff interview on the camera.

It was my turn on Monday night. And I will be sincere with you – I slept when the White House called.

I spent the best part of five days, assuming that there is an external chance I would get an interview with him to celebrate the year after trying his life in the Butlers, Pennsylvania.

My report from this shooting came with global headlines and probably caught the attention of the president. So I believed that this connection may be a way of providing a presidential interview – quite rare things for foreign information organizations in the US.

On Sunday night, I was told that I was a few minutes from the call, so the team and I were ready to record, but it didn’t come.

By last night, I refused the interview that happened, and after a few weeks on the road without the weekend I was exhausted and dozed off. Then the phone called.

I answered brazenly, and the voice of the press -secretary Caroline Levit came through the speaker: “Hi, Gary, I’m here with the president, here you are.”

I rushed into my living room, moving over my digital voice recorder; The line fell, and I thought I had lost it. But they returned to the line, and I spent almost 20 minutes, talking to Trump about everything: from that life -changing night in Butler, to his disappointments with Vladimir Putin, to the new Faith found in NATO and his gaze on the UK.

Here is my five key trips from our unexpected conversation.

He very much reflected a couple of things, and he sounded quite vulnerable, talking about attempting to attempt – it was clear to him.

For the president, who was loved by his supporters for the fact that he was so honest and without filters, there were moments of reflection and a few long past before answering what the public rarely sees.

Asked if his attempt changed his attempt, the president conveyed a hint of vulnerability when he said he was trying to think about it as soon as he could.

“I don’t like to dwell on this because if I did it, it would be, you know, can change my life, I don’t want it to be.”

Speaking, he said he liked “the power of positive thinking or the power of positive without thinking.”

There was also a very long pause when I asked him if he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the end, he replied, “I almost don’t trust anyone to be honest with you.”

Addressing the domestic American policy, I asked if the presidential plan was working on mass deportations – both in speed and given that some people are sweeping who may not want to see deportations.

The President insisted that his team did a “great job” to fulfill the promises of his company, citing a sharp decline in migrants crossing the US from the southern neighbor of Mexico.

Some of Trump’s teams expressed disappointment that the deportations are carried out too slowly. When I pushed him to the question of how many deportations in the second presidential term, Trump refused to give the figure.

“Well, I didn’t put the number, but I want to pull out the criminals quickly, and we do it as you know,” he said. “We bring them to Salvador, many other places.”

Trump expressed his disappointment with Russian President Vladimir Putin – disconnecting the day when he threatened to hit the Moscow economy with secondary sanctions when the war agreement was not reached within 50 days.

Having enriched the promise to end the war quickly, Trump seemed surprised that he had not yet been able to take an agreement with his Russian counterpart to end the long -term conflict.

He noted again that there was a gap between the words and actions from Putin: “I thought we had a deal four times, and then you go home, and you just attacked the nursing home or something in Kiev. I said,” What the hell is everything? “

President of Ukrainian Valodimir Zelensky and other European leaders have long been accused by Putin of not seriously stopped war. For them, the feelings of doubt will be nothing new.

But when I asked Trump if he finished with the Russian leader, he continued to leave the door open: “I didn’t finish it, but I am disappointed in it.”

I drew attention to Trump that he once suggested that NATO was outdated, and he replied that he now believed that the Western military union was “becoming the opposite.”

He was fresh from the hosting chief NATO Mark Rute – a man with whom he seems to be working well. The couple exchanged warm words in front of the world cameras and announced that the US was selling NATO weapons, which will then be transferred to Kyiv.

During our call, Trump noted that he got rid of his resentment, that his country was in proportion to defense more than his allies.

“It was very unfair because the US paid almost one hundred percent, but now they pay their own accounts, and I think it is much better,” he said, to resort to NATO members last month to increase the cost of defense up to 5% of each country’s economic production.

“We changed NATO a lot,” he told me.

Trump emphasized his respect for the UK and its Prime Minister Sir Keira Starmer, from which he signed an agreement on removing some trade barriers last month. “I really like the Prime Minister, though he is liberal,” Trump explained.

Trump emphasized that the relations between the two countries were the same as “special” as many British, adding that he believes that the UK would fight with the USA in the war.

He sounded relaxed over him. Although his state visit to the UK will not entail a speech in the parliament at the end of this year, he did not insist that the legislators were recalled. “Let them go and spend time,” he said.

Trump marks his future master Charles “The Great Gentleman”. He abandoned the recent speech, which was brought to the Parliament of Canada by a monarch, which was seen as the approval of Canadian sovereignty before Trump’s threats.

He even had a joke. “You have many different names you pass,” he said. “England, if you want to cut off a couple of areas. And you go to the UK and you have Britain and you have the UK. You have more names than any other country in history, I think.”