American journalist Karen Tumulti said that President Donald Trump finally managed to build his wall, but not on the southern border of the United States with Mexico as he wished, but rather about the White House to protect it from the protesters.
In a Washington Post article, the author considered it difficult to imagine a more appropriate analogy to Trump's presidency than turning the White House into a fortified castle.
She noted that despite Trump's bragging about power and hegemony, the new multi-layered black fence that struck around the White House last Thursday reveals the fact that the president is acting out of fear rather than out of strength.
Despite the peaceful protestors who gathered in the street across from the White House, the author says, Trump has erected a barrier between him and those crowds and the pain she feels as a result of the killing of George Floyd the defenseless African-American who was killed by a policeman in Minneapolis.
The author ironically wondered about Trump's next step after the fence he set up around the White House, would it be digging a ditch full of crocodiles and snakes he once proposed to prevent immigrants from reaching the United States across its nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico?
She said that the fence is similar to the forts built by tyrannical rulers in third world countries to protect themselves from the reaction of their oppressed peoples, and it is far from the White House, which is the "House of the People" and which for centuries has been a symbol of the President’s residence in front of his elected people.
The author concluded her article that Trump may one day be able to see the truth that has become evident to everyone, namely that the president - who needs to be sheltered behind fences and barriers because he feels threatened by his citizens - is a prisoner of the people, not its leader.
The White House guards had strengthened security measures in its vicinity last Thursday, as cement barriers were installed and a fence was built around the entrances of the park opposite the presidential residence, and a spokesman for the Presidential Security Service announced the closure of some entrances leading to the headquarters, while affirming that protesters were allowed to demonstrate.