Across the room from where he sat to eat lunch, a large TV hung on the wall about fifteen feet away. It was constantly on, playing Fox News, which meant that conversations were often interrupted when Trump saw news stories that interested him. In midsentence the president would stop talking, raise his left hand in a gesture to suspend the conversation, reach down to the table for the remote control with his right hand, and immediately raise the volume—listening for a few seconds, and then commenting on what he just heard. It was very predictable.
