Hello and welcome to Not Another One with me, Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Ian Martin and Tim Montgomery.

Thank you very much for joining us for this, our second episode of the week.

And what we thought we would explore in our time together, something which I think bizarrely,

given Trump comes up about every 10 seconds in every media outlet, something almost under-explored,

which is we have a president in the United States who provides a constant,

nearly minute-by-minute, public commentary of everything he's doing, whether it's negotiating

with Russia, attacking a judge, changing education, but whatever it is, he is there in a media outlet, talking, explaining.

Now, is this utterly reckless in terms of security issues, in terms of almost reducing the presidency to some sort of TV show?

Or is it actually an instinctive form of genius communication in the modern age?

And to say how unusual it is, think of the number of times we saw Biden.

Now I know he was old and they were scared of putting in front of the camera too

often, but it was hardly at all. Whatever was going on, a brief statement, then he would disappear.

But even going back to brilliant performers like Obama and Clinton, they weren't this constant

narrator of their own story like Trump.

I think it's got lessons here, and I inclined to the view that it's actually a rather brilliant form of communication.

But Miranda, what's your take of this thing?

To the point, by the way, where the big story this week of the leak of the WhatsApp group,

I mean, obviously on one level it was shocking. Signal actually, but same principle. Same principle. It was. It was. It was. Absolutely. Leaks the wrong word. Leaks the wrong word. It was accidentally sent to... The wonderful accidental inclusion of a journalist in a top level. We're about to go to war security. This Atlantic editor.

I'm all done it, not normally over sort of war planning.

I mean, it was just darkly, darkly comic.

But almost sort of part of, I bet Trump wasn't that bothered.

Because what was on that what's group, he's said most of it in public himself about Europe and all the rest of it.

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