It’s the Monday morning after the G20 summit in July. President Trump and his team have returned to America and are apparently delighted by how it all went, but there are reports that his administration forgot to book hotel rooms and had to lodge staff at the US consulate, while the city of Hamburg stepped in to provide the president with a place to sleep.
Alyssa Mastromonaco followed the coverage and found it all dreadfully stressful. “For me it’s very difficult,” she says. We’re sitting in the back of a café in Lower Manhattan. She is 5ft 2in and she sits cross-legged on a bench against the wall, dressed like a rather groovy English teacher: thick-framed brown glasses, eclectic jewellery, and all wrapped up in