‘Dust, sweat and blood’: White House uses Roosevelt speech to cast Trump as fighter; shows him in a Coliseum
“It is not the critic who counts…” With those opening words from former US President Theodore Roosevelt, the White House on Friday (local time) framed Donald Trump as a battle-worn leader confronting his critics head-on. In a post on X, it quoted the former president’s famous 1910 “Man in the Arena” speech, a message often […]