It is an edifying document that we are offering you this week on the cover of the weekly: the staggering interview granted by the American president to three journalists from the monthly The Atlantic, A title that is hostile to him and that he never fails on his side to criticize.
An unusual format for International mail, dont The quasi-integral translation is to be found below, and which seemed significant enough to devote our front page to it. Explanations.
Monday, April 28, on the eve of the hundred days of Donald Trump at the White House, the magazine The Atlantic Published on his site a very long survey signed Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, two former feathers of the Washington Post, On the incredible comeback of the republican billionaire after his defeat (which he never recognized) against Joe Biden in 2020: “We wanted to know with his own words, they write, How he had managed one of the most remarkable feedback in political history and what lessons, if necessary, he had drawn from it. ” It is also a question of establishing a first assessment of your second term and “The radical transformation of the country and the world” that he is stimulating. But now, the two journalists are refused a good and due form to feed their article: they will have to be satisfied with some scattered responses on the phone.
But at the end of April, theater: the White House finally accepted the principle of an interview and invites the editor-in-chief of chief The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, the president’s bane of the president, the one who revealed the signalgate scandal*. The same day of the interview, Donald Trump accused the journalist on his own social network of propagating false information: “Believe it or not, but today I will meet Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of chief The Atlantic, the one who wrote so many fictions about me ”, he was boasting on Truth Social in prelude to the interview. Atmosphere.
-Thursday, April 24, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, and Jeffrey Goldberg ended up interviewing Donald Trump at length in the Oval office. This is not the only interview that the American president recently granted, but the latter detonates. Due to the very circumstances of the interview, the passive between the White House and the Magazine, but also of its tone and the amazing cordiality displayed between the protagonists. Donald Trump talks about the decoration of the oval office (“People love it”) like his second mandate (“This presidency is different”), from Ukraine (“I’m saving this country”) a you Canada (“We don’t need anything about what they have”) or of his political career (“No one has been as much nailed to the pillory as me”) and his successes (“One of the things that I may be most proud of is international relations”).
The Atlantic chose to publish this interview the same day as the very long investigation into Trump’s comeback. By reading it, we immediately questioned the best way to share it with our readers: was it just necessary to summarize the point? Embark on a translation? What deadlines, when the weekly closed much in advance once again due to the bridges in May? Wasn’t there above all a risk of saturation?
We finally decided for a translation (by one of our translators) of the interview. Because she says basically many things that we sometimes perceive from afar or through the words or the writings of others. Everyone will be the sole judge of the comments and the logic of the American president. These are not phrases reported or out of their context, nor interpretations: it is Donald Trump in the text (or in his head), and, on the length, it is very instructive. “The first time, I was fighting for my survival and to direct this country. This time, I fight to help my country and help the world”, he said in particular. To read absolutely to the end.
* In an article published at the end of March, Jeffrey Goldberg explained how the Trump administration had sent him his war plans against Houthist activists to Yemen on the signal application by errorly including him in a group created on messaging by the national security advisor at the time, Mike Waltz.
