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American people saw President Trump at least 10 days ago. He has spent most of his days out of public view since his election defeat. He just focused on challenging the results of the poll, instead of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has spent much of his time out of the public eye, since 3^rd November, hidden in the White House, tweeting, and pushing conspiracy theories about election fraud. President Trump’s last public appearance was a small ceremonial bill signing on 17^th December. He was found playing golf in Virginia at his course in the area on 13^th December. The next day, he attended the Army-Navy football game at West Point. Trump decided to focus his time and attention on his doomed campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in spite of the worsening coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump has done one on-camera interview, since 3^rd November. He took questions from reporters twice and once discussing the vaccine, once on Thanksgiving, and spent 9-days golfing. Trump isn’t just ducking reporters; he has had only one rally since the election and has skipped his annual move to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, instead opting to stay in the White House. However, Trump’s digital presence is still very apparent. He also spent his time launching into rage-fuelled Twitter rants about Democrats allegedly stealing the election, harassing Republicans who refuse to support his challenges, and taking credit for the coronavirus vaccine. Trump was scheduled to join his lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, at a Republican meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in late November.

On Sunday, the President made 2 public calls; one to the Turning-Point USA conference in Florida, where he ran through his litany of election fraud claims to a crowd of adoring fans chanting ‘4 more years’ and another to a show called ‘Uncovering the Truth’ hosted by Giuliani and Dr. Maria Ryan. Donald Trump has been focused on pressuring Republican officials to work with him to overturn the results of the election for the past several weeks. President Trump recently faced criticism for downplaying a massive, months-long hacking campaign that US intelligence officials have blamed on Russia. He contradicted his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who said it was pretty clearly Russians who triggered the hack. It is noteworthy that the breach targeted US governmental agencies and potentially hundreds of major US corporations.