'I was with Trump when he found out about the loss': revelation of a journalist from the White House pool

Reporter Air force at the White House, Tara McKelvey spoke about how she spent the US presidential election day with the team of the current president. She spoke about the “agonizing atmosphere” in the White House and how Trump behaved after learning of his loss to Biden. Next - from the first person.

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Over the past four years, I have seen President Donald Trump in his good and bad days. But I find it hard to remember a day like November 7, when he lost the election.

Dressed in a black windbreaker, dark trousers and a white hat with the words MAGA (Make America Great Again), the president left the White House at about ten in the morning. Prior to that, he spent some time on Twitter, where he wrote several posts about electoral fraud.

He walked, leaning slightly forward, as if fighting the wind. He got into the dark car and drove to his Trump National golf club in Sterling, Virginia, about 40 kilometers from the White House.

At that moment, he exuded confidence. It was a wonderful day for golf and he was going to be at the club.

But his team was on edge.

"How are you?" — I asked one of the junior employees.

“Great,” she said and smiled, but her expression was tense and she didn’t look up from her phone.

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Tormenting atmosphere

The atmosphere in the White House has been excruciating since election day. They were only on Tuesday, November 3, but it seemed like a whole life had passed.

When I walked through the West Wing on the morning of Saturday, November 7, many of the desks were empty. Several employees fell ill with coronavirus and were on sick leave. Others are in quarantine.

From around 11:30, while the president was at the golf club, the BBC and American networks began reporting Joe Biden's victory.

I heard the news in an Italian restaurant about one and a half kilometers from the club. I work in the White House pool, a small group of journalists traveling with the president. We were all waiting for him to leave the club.

“He’s in a terrible mood,” said one woman outside the restaurant who, like most of her neighbors in the area, voted for the Democratic candidate.

Others discussed when the president would leave the club and return to the White House. Minutes passed, then hours.

“It’s time,” one guard said quietly to the other.

The President was really in no hurry. He was surrounded by friends at the club. Outside the gates, his supporters shouted to me and other journalists: “Defund the media!”

A woman wearing heels and a red, white and blue bandana carried a sign that read “Stop the Cheating.”

A man spun circles in front of the club in a truck decorated with various flags. One of them depicted President Trump standing on a tank as the commander of the world. This is how his supporters see him, and this is how he saw himself for the past four years.

Finally he left the club and went home.

Thousands of his opponents gathered around.

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"You lose, we win"

The president's motorcade raced through Virginia, followed by vans carrying journalists, one of which was me. We nearly had an accident on Fairfax County Boulevard. Sirens howled.

The closer we got to the White House, the larger the crowd became: people took to the streets to celebrate his defeat. Someone held a sign: “You lose, we all win.” People honked their horns and shouted contemptuous slogans.

When we arrived at the White House, Trump entered through a side door that presidents rarely use. He walked with his head bowed, slouched over.

He looked at me and the other journalists and held up his thumb. But the gesture was uncertain. He didn't raise his hand high and swing his fist like he usually did.

During all this time, the president never hesitated, he continued to assert that the elections were falsified and the perpetrators would be punished.

In the morning he tweeted about "illegally obtained" votes, and in the afternoon he defiantly tweeted in large letters "I WON THE ELECTION."

But that was Trump on Twitter. The person I saw left a different impression. When he entered the side doors of the White House in the late afternoon, the delusion disappeared.

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