Rampant speculation abounds on the ways Trump has, will, won’t, can’t, should, shouldn’t, ought, might, wants to, fails to, and tries to change the Presidency. A developing story.

But America’s Office of the President is 44 times bigger and older than anything Trump has to offer in that regard. And it has 227 years more experience and tradition than Trump’s effort backing it up.

The classic saga of a pebble versus a stone mountain. Not too many are paying attention right now. The pebble rolling into contention for battle is all the rage for those focused on the here and now. Like the Twitter Lovers.

The truth is the Presidency grinds both heavy and fine on its occupants, starting even before their Day One in power. The word gravitas applies to the transfer effects worked by the past on the geography of the present.

We need a sort of time lapse political photography  catalogue to record the workings not of the Man on the Office, but the Office on the Man. Macro and micro.

A select initial portfolio follows.

Tokens From the Man Who Will Change Everything.




01/11/17 Trump Tells a Leaden Joke About Firing His Sons at First & Last Pre-Presidential News Conference (New York) 

01/19/17 Trump’s Silence at Arlington National Cemetery

01/20/17 Trump Rushes Ahead of His Wife To Claim the White House Prize: His Last Personal Act as Pre-President

01/20/17 Trump Greets the Nation With His Last Pre-Presidential Fist Pump at Inauguration

01/20/17 Trump Blesses the Nation With His First Presidential Fist Pump at Inauguration

01/20/17 Trump Graces the Nation With His First Two-Handed Presidential Fist Pump in Hearty Celebration

01/20/17 Trump Signs His First Presidential Order in the Oval Office

01/28/17 Trump at His Oval Office Desk Speaking Cordially With Russia’s Putin

Undated 2017 Trump in Oval Office on Phone Looking Somewhat Peaked

REUTERS/Carlos Barria

02/03/17 Trump Climbs Ramp to Board Air Force One: A Portly Man Alone With His Mental Tweets Off to a Weekend Vacation

A Time-Lapse Photo Sequence of an Urban Lightning Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4UNSXMhDI)