Eight hours before Donald Trump addresses the American people in prime time, his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stands on the podium in the White House Briefing Room on Thursday afternoon and beats the drum. The audience would be “shocked” by what they would find out in the evening, she says. And that it is essentially a civic duty to turn on the television later. At this point, alleged details of the US President’s speech are already circulating in the US media. Leavitt then clarifies: Yes, the speech will be about the legitimacy of the US electoral system. But Trump is also Trump, so you never know.