The most consistent thing about my life for the past two years has been @realDonaldTrump.
During the presidential campaign, when I was NBC News’ “embed” with candidate Donald Trump, you never knew when a late-night or early-morning tweet would torpedo your day’s work.
It’s why every embed group dinner on the road was interrupted by simultaneous pings and vibrations, courtesy of our Twitter notifications. It was why I was paranoid to fall asleep during the primaries. I actually set daily 5 a.m. alarms from August 2015 through Super Tuesday so I could catch up on any overnight or early-morning missives. Compulsive? I had to be.
Things haven’t changed much.
Except for the work space. For roughly the past 100 days, my “office” has been the White House briefing room.
I push my overloaded shoulder bag into an X-ray machine, walk through magnetometers (think TSA), and get screened by the Secret Service. Then I push open the white double doors each day and enter the home of the world’s most powerful leader — a man who I’ve covered, if you include the campaign, for over 600 days.
Yes, I’ve been keeping track.
Over that time, I chronicled how a controversial real estate mogul made his way to the Oval Office. In the process, I’ve visited a dozen of President Trump’s properties, in the United States and in Scotland, and spent winter weekends following him to the Florida sun when the president stays at his Mar-a-Lago club.
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