It started with a bang. A cameraman collided with a large mirror on the wall opposite Donald Trump in the White House Cabinet Room, and he noticed immediately.

“Ooh, you got to watch that,” Trump cautioned. “You’re not allowed to break that, that mirror’s 400 years old.”

Then, for those who weren’t aware what had happened, Trump explained: “A camera just hit the mirror. Aye aye aye. I just moved it up here special from the vaults, and first thing that happens, a camera hits it.”

Trump is a creature of television, and a natural. Just before the meeting started, he was checking with the cameras to make sure they were in the correct position, like a Hollywood director might arrange a film shoot.

This is a man for whom visuals, and image, are next to godliness. And Anthony Albanese was sur

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