Being in the White House Cabinet Room while Donald Trump is conducting one of his appropriately named media “sprays” is a bit like being on the set of The Apprentice.

In fact, it is a lot like it.

Trump holds court from his seat at the middle of the long table, luxuriating in the self-inflating knowledge that everyone in the room and at the other end of the live television feed is entirely focused on him.

This is a guy who fills the room the moment he enters it.

He is the centre of attention, the host and star of his own political reality show.

And anyone who takes him on, or disappoints him, risks an eviscerating Trump takedown.

“You’re fired!” he’d famously thunder in his reality TV days.

Now it’s “You’re nasty!” or a dismissive “Quiet!” to persistent or impertinent questioners.

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