Sandra Schuurhof always manages to upset her right-wing conservative colleagues at Shownieuws with the greatest of ease. One critical note about Donald Trump and they hang in the curtains.
As a royalty expert, Sandra Schuurhof watched the visit of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima to the White House with great interest. “We laugh about it, but in the end it is of course an extremely difficult evening for Willem-Alexander and Máxima,” she notes at the desk of Show news.
‘Just nonsense!’
Bram Moszkowicz and Guido den Aantrekker immediately objected. “Why?! Why?!”, they shout in unison.
Well, it’s quite logical why, according to Sandra. “They are not just there: oh, how nice, we have been invited, how honorable. No, because of course they also find it very difficult to go there.”
Bram: “Why? Why?”
Sandra: “Because Trump only talks nonsense.”
‘Not at all!’
Bram, who is a Forum for Democracy sympathizer, does not want to hear a negative word about Trump. “Not at all!”
Sandra: “Oh, well! Of course!”
Bram and Guido in unison: “That’s what you think!”
Sandra: “90 percent of people now think so. Now you hear about that little ten percent!”
Guido: “Oh, well, no, well, no!”
Sandra: “But can I just finish my story?”
‘Speaking for a long time’
Bram would prefer to silence his colleague immediately. “Well, you’ve been speaking for a long time now, but keep going.”
Guido: “No, Bram, let’s be honest: come on, San.”
Bram: “Finish your story.”
Sandra: “They have to be a bit strict there, because you don’t want to antagonize them, so there have been a lot of conversations, including with Mark Rutte and the embassy, about: what are the talking points so that we walk the right line? But they don’t want to spoil the atmosphere and only make it worse.”
Ordinary things
Guido thinks the king is enjoying this visit to Trump. “I’m sure: Willem-Alexander likes him. He also likes vulgar things.”
Sandra: “No, I don’t believe that. Really not. Willem-Alexander and Máxima of course think he’s terrible.”
Guido: “Oh, no, no!”
Sandra: “Of course!”
Bram: “Sandra, Sandra, just for a moment, huh? You hate Trump and you’re allowed to…”
Sandra: “No, I don’t hate Trump, I think he’s crazy.”
“You don’t know that!”
Bram reacts annoyed. “That’s fine, that’s okay. But how do you know that our king thinks so too? You don’t know that at all!”
Sandra: “They are democrats! These are democrats through and through, Willem-Alexander and Máxima.”
Bram: “That doesn’t mean you hate them.”
Sandra: “I’m not saying they hate him either.”
Bram: “It’s much worse if you say they think he’s crazy!”
Tooske Ragas: “No, no, no, she didn’t say that either! She said: ‘I think he’s crazy.’”
Disclosure
Guido then comes up with: inside information. “I’m going to make a quick disclosure: I have friends who know the couple well. They are more right-wing than most people, like Sandra, think.”
Sandra concludes: “I also know a lot of people who are good friends with them and they are real democrats par excellence. And they are already quite right-wing in America, aren’t they!”
