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A defensive Trump calls a Cabinet meeting and uses it to boast, deflect and distract

As the partial government shutdown continued on Jan. 3, senators discussed what it will take to reopen the government. (Zoeann Murphy, Rhonda Colvin/The Washington Post)

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President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year Wednesday with a Cabinet meeting. It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defense of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement.

Trump trashed his former secretary of defense, retired four-star Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, as a failure after once holding him out as a star of his administration.

“What’s he done for me?” Trump said.

View the complete January 2 article by Anne Gearan on The Washington Post website here.

Trump boasts that he’s ‘like, really smart’ and a ‘very stable genius’ amid questions over his mental fitness

The following article by David Nakamura was posted on the Washington Post website January 6, 2018:

At a news conference at Camp David Jan 6., President Trump responded to a question from a reporter about a tweet he posted on his mental state earlier that day. (The Washington Post)

President Trump lashed out again at a new book that suggests top White House aides fear that he is unfit for the job, calling the book “a work of fiction” and declaring that libel laws are too weak.

“It’s a disgrace that he can do something like this,” Trump said of the book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by New York media writer Michael Wolff. “Libel laws are very weak in this country. If they were stronger, hopefully, you would not have something like that happen.” Continue reading “Trump boasts that he’s ‘like, really smart’ and a ‘very stable genius’ amid questions over his mental fitness”