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New York Times
12 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Quote of the Day: He Came to Put Up a Flagpole And Got a Trump Talk on Iran
'I was basically just there as a fly on the wall, waiting for him to wrap it up and then we could get back to work.' CHRISTOPHER TATTERSALL, an arborist who found himself as part of an informal news conference on the White House lawn as President Trump discussed the conflict between Iran and Israel.
New York Times
a day ago
- Politics
- New York Times
A Tree Trimmer's Front-Row Seat to Trump's Impromptu Iran Remarks
When an arborist named Christopher Tattersall walked out of his house in Glen Arm, Md., before sunrise Wednesday, he had no idea he would soon be thrust into the most high-stakes moment of Donald Trump's second presidency. As the world waited to find out if Mr. Trump was really going to go through with bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, the president emerged Wednesday morning and chose to give his fullest remarks on the subject yet while standing with a crew of workers who had been contracted to do a job on the White House grounds. Mr. Tattersall was there in his bright orange shirt and his climbing harness, hovering just over the president's left shoulder, shocked to find himself cast as an unwitting extra on the geopolitical stage. Any other president might have discussed such matters in an Oval Office address or in a formal news conference. Mr. Trump did it while hanging with a crew of guys at a job site in his backyard. 'I didn't really know what to think,' Mr. Tattersall said later that day. 'I was just there, in the moment you know, and I got the president next to me giving a worldwide press conference, which I thought was pretty cool.' His adventure was set into motion about two months ago, when some friends who own a flagpole installation company called to tell him about a crazy job coming up: The White House was looking to erect two 100-foot flagpoles, one on the South Lawn and the other out front. His buddies would need some help rigging up the crane. Could he possibly come along? Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
