Very likely off topic (I’m pages behind) but does anyone else wonder what the procedure is for telling officials about an accident like this? Obvs your fender bender doesn’t make it to the ears of the President but what would? If this happened anywhere else would Trump have been woken up (assuming he was asleep - doubt) and who makes that call? I’ve got a picture in my mind of CNN getting the news first and Trump seeing it on the telly. There must be a dude who gets the call and makes the call to summon the Big Boys in to a meeting. I like to think it’s an organised and highly structured procedure of notifications but sadly I’m old and realise that, like the rest of life, it’s probably chaos. Fun to think of all the Secret Service pagers going off and someone having to go in and fetch Pete Hegseth out the bar and find him a clean suit. Do they keep a change of clothes at the White House just in case of emergency? Does JD need to borrow a tie?
I guess what I’m saying is that on a less serious occasion I’d love to see behind the scenes, just how many people were involved between the accident occurring and the Press conference and who they are. Whose phone rang first and what did they do next?