Donald Trump acted so swiftly on closing US borders to refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries that his new Secretary of Homeland Security, John F. Kelly, found out about it from broadcast news.
Trump’s administration has thus far not only been playing out on TV but directly informing it.
‘Halfway into the briefing, someone on the call looked up at a television in his office.
Flying back to Washington from Miami, Kelly was given his first briefing on Trump’s plan, which would ultimately lead to pandemonium and protests at US airports.