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Is there some detail I'm missing here? Clearing the protest out by military force for a photo-op seems rather questionable, and enabled the media to kneecap the reassurance gained from it. Would the country really have spiralled into irrevocable chaos if it weren't for that one symbolic picture of Trump standing by the damaged church with Bible in hand, as if to say " I'm here to hold things together in these dark times" ? I guess it works in a "Freikorps voran-die Grenze Brennt! Fur eine zerbrochene Welt" kind of way.
("Free Corps ahead, the borders burn! [We fight] for a broken world." is the literal translation according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3EfLouZiUs).
People were practically begging Trump to make a speech of some sort to say things would be alright and the attempt at burning down the church was deranged. Plus there were already plans to clear out the area so Trump wasn’t clearing the area for himself.
The media just convinced people that the gesture was meaningless by calling it a photo op, even tho most any public appearance by a politician could be considered a photo op. Alternative would be sitting back after the place was cleared and continuing to make statements from the White House that get ignored unless they’re tweets.