A member of the crew contracted by the White House to install two giant flagpoles was baffled by Donald Trump’s remarks after he was inadvertently drawn into an impromptu press conference.
“I didn’t really know what to think,” Christopher Tattersall told the New York Times. “I was just there, in the moment, you know, and I got the president next to me giving a worldwide press conference, which I thought was pretty cool.”
While standing on the White House lawn with the workers on Wednesday, Trump discussed the possibility of bombing Iran and attacked Fed chair Jerome Powell.
“I had no clue who he was talking about,” Tattersall said about Trump’s rant about Powell. “I was basically just there as a fly on the wall, waiting for him to wrap it up and then we could get back to work.”
By the time Trump started ranting about Harvard, Russian Vladimir Putin, Pakistan and India, and Harvey Weinstein, Tattersall said he was lost.
“It was kind of a blur,” he said.
He told the Times that he doesn’t know much about politics nor does he care to know. He didn’t vote in last year’s election. Tattersall said he scheduled a vacation to Thailand that week to get away from all that noise.
Still, Tattersall’s message to Trump on the Middle East conflict is simple.
“I don’t want to see anybody getting hurt,” he said. “I wish we could all just get along.”
