Governor Michigan Gretchen Whitmer took a set of documents when he was taken to the oval room without knowing that Mr. Trump was holding a press conference.
New York TimesOn April 12, posting a photo of the Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer with a collection of documents when he came to see President Donald Trump in the Oval Room on April 9.
Whitmer, along with the Mesopotamian delegation to the White House to discuss the natural disaster response plan in Michigan, defense facilities in this state and the impact of tax policy.
However, the White House assistant led the Democratic Governor and the members of the delegation to the oval room without notifying that Mr. Trump was holding a press conference at that time.
When he realized the presence of a large number of reporters here, the 53 -year -old female governor rushed to cover his face, standing between the two White House assistants, seemingly to avoid being photographed.
The Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer (middle) covers his face with a stack of documents when he entered the oval room between President Trump’s press conference on April 9. Image:X/AlMayer19
Whitmer and members of the delegation became “reluctant audience”, witnessing Mr. Trump sign a series of executive orders targeting political opponents, including investigating former Chief of the US Department of Security Miles Taylor for leaking information to the press for the period of 2018-2019 and former Network Security Officers Christopher Krebs for anti-fraudulent election hypotheses in 2020.
A few minutes later, Mrs. Ha practiced the document, with Michigan officials and legislators ranked closer to Mr. Trump “with a sad appearance”.
“We are very honored to have the presence of Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, a great state. She did a good job of her work, a very good person,” Mr. Trump told reporters when she saw Mrs. Whitmer and his colleagues walked closer to her desk.
In an event later in Michigan, Governor Whitmer said she was not foretold that Mr. Trump was a press conference in the Oval Office, only thinking that she was invited to a private meeting with the president.
“I was at the wrong time. I had no plan or desire to appear in the oval room at that time. I did not agree with many things that were said and the decisions were deployed in the room at that time, but I still lingered for the mission to present aspirations for Michigan,” she said.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer talked to President Trump at the Oval Office. Image:AP
Whitmer, re -elected Governor of Michigan in 2022 with the overwhelming victory of the Republican opponent, has long been considered a potential candidate of the Democratic Party for the race to enter the White House in 2028.
However, she is said to have changed significant attitude towards Mr. Trump in this term, different from the battlefields between the two in the Civid-19 epidemic.
She sent a letter to congratulate Mr. Trump right after the inauguration on January 20, thanking him for mentioning the auto industry in the speech and also sent his own phone number, saying that the US President could call her if needed.
