René van der Gijp reacted heavily in Today Inside yesterday evening when it was about Mark Rutte’s second visit to the program. “Then I’ll stay home!”
Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit the studio of Today Inside for the second time in a short time next Wednesday. His first visit yielded little insight, because the prime minister had to constantly answer the question whether it is not even time to leave. He was given little opportunity to tell his story.
‘Really ridiculous’
René van der Gijp was quite silent during the broadcast in question and now it appears why: he thought that his colleagues were already talking too much. Last night he complained about it: “I found the past time really ridiculous that stuff. With three men on that man, what am I supposed to do? And don’t listen to his answers and stuff. John, what is it about?”
Colleague Wilfred Genee sarcastically: “You have to treat him very kindly?”
It seems that René has been bottling this up all along: “You have to listen to his answers, I think. Let him talk it out once in a while.”
Shut up
Wilfred defends the way he interviewed Rutte. “But you know what he’s going to say, right? ‘It is a great country, things are going very well, good things have been achieved’.”
Then René shows how much he cares. Seriously: “Then you have to ask him to keep his mouth shut. That we only talk to him. He can too. Then he can evaluate what we said after fifty minutes in the car.”
Wilfred defends himself: “He thought it was a great broadcast. He was very happy with it.”
René stimulated: “That’s why. Therefore.” Then: “I know: he gives too long answers, but then we have to have some kind of something, a button or something, so that we can turn it off for a while.”
Icy atmosphere
Johan Derksen then starts his regular tune about Rutte: “Yes, but I also think: a man who is responsible for the greatest chaos that I have experienced in the Netherlands in any case and who does not solve anything… Nothing at all…”
René then: “But you wanted to treat him the same as last time?”
To quickly add: “Then I will stay at home.”
Everyone at the table is literally silent for five seconds (!). There is an icy atmosphere in the studio. Johan: “I don’t think I treated him strangely.”
Fourteen times
René concludes Johan and square public tapping fingers. Deadly serious: “You have told him fourteen times to leave, but he is not retarded. After two times, he also realizes that.”
Johan uncomfortably: “Yes, no, but I just said my opinion.”
René: “Yes, but you told him fourteen times that he had to leave, but after two times he knows that.”
Johan: “Well, that was how it came out in the discussion, but I still think so.”
René: “He just went to school, that man.”
“I’m leaving!”
Wilfred: “But the essence is that it does not affect him and that it does not become clear to him…”
René: “But what should he say? “I’m leaving now”? You would have preferred that.”
Wilfred: “Well…”
René: “I’m getting on now guys, it’s done, I’m going to the car and I’m driving home.”
Wilfred then intervenes. “What I think the purpose of this program was, René, is that he would have shown a little more self-reflection than he often shows anyway. That is of course very remarkable that you have been the prime minister for twelve years now,” he says. And so he goes on for a while.
Stalemate
Despite René’s complaint, Johan does not seem to want to slow down on Rutte’s second visit. “I will not hold back now, because the chaos is still as great and there is no prospect of it being resolved.”
However, René believes that you should deal differently with a stalemate of opinions. “You (Wilfred, ed.) Now say something and that is supported by a very large part of the Netherlands, because otherwise the BBB would not have voted that way, but then he (Johan, ed.) does not think so. Yes and then?”
Wilfred: “Yes, I know. That’s why you get such a program. The question is whether you should do it again. I think we should just say goodbye to him in style next week. Just thank you for everything.”
“Are we going through?”
Only after the first commercial break does it thaw a bit at the table at Today Inside, but the broadcast will never be as relaxed as usual.
At the end, Wilfred remarks, “How long will this program go on? You ask yourself that every time, don’t you, when you drive back home! Especially after tonight! But all that aside.”
René: “Why?!”
Wilfred: “No, it doesn’t matter. There are times when you think: well…”
Slumbering irritation
Viewers are shocked by this hassle at VI. “Something is brewing at Today Inside,” notes Plint. And Eric: “I think there will be a riot thanks to Gijp.”
Duo: “It seems as if Hélène has been crying for the make-up, Gijp who is grumpy, and a 10-minute overview (long review of the past week, ed.). There must be something going on.”
Julio: “Strange flow, or actually none, at Today Inside tonight. Slumbering irritation.”
Brabo: “I think there is another fit between Gijp and Derksen.”
Douwe: “After Gijp’s comment about Rutte, I still feel some tension between the gentlemen.”
And Diana: “Weird atmosphere today…”