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I'm Katrina Perry.
Welcome to the president's path on the global story feed.
This week, I'm speaking to my fellow chief presenter here in Washington, D.C.
Sumi Somaskanda and the BBC's senior reporter, Brenda Boosman.
Hey guys, we've talked so much about the pace of this Trump White House,
but my gosh, Wednesday night was something else entirely, wasn't it?
I mean, the lesson this week is beware of the summer soiree,
President Trump hosting a whole pile of loyalists and political operatives at the White House coming out to speak for just 14 minutes.
And then I think within half an hour we had the travel ban,
we had the new Harvard foreign student visa ban,
we had an investigation into Joe Biden,
we had these texts going between Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Beware of the summer soiree.
It was such a good example.
I thought of a flooding in the zone in that, you know, we,
the media in general had to pivot from headline to headline so quickly,
it was really hard to focus.
on one thing in particular, Wednesday going into Thursday, I think it was just,