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Trump Touts “Great Reviews,” Says He’s “Unlikely” To Grant Interview With Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Check out that body language

Donald Trump, who claims he has no time to watch cable TV, says he got rave reviews for his “performance” yesterday during the televised 54-minute meeting with Congressional leaders.

During the first cabinet meeting of 2018, Trump told the press the “reviews” were so good, he says he got “letters” from news anchors congratulating him on his “performance.”

Later, when asked about “letters” of praise, the White House released a list of links to video clips showing positive feedback on the bipartisan meeting.

By the way, I’ll mention that as I watched the televised meeting, I was completely aware that the reason Trump allowed the press to stay and view the meeting was specifically meant to GIVE a performance. After the new explosive expose by Michael Wolff where Trump’s mental faculties have been questioned, I had no doubt that the Donald was trying to show Americans how stable he can try to be.

Later, at a press event with the Prime Minister of Norway, Trump was asked if he would be willing to sit down with Special Counsel Robert Mueller for a face to face interview regarding the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Last June, Trump said he was “100 percent” willing to give testimony under oath. Additionally, his legal team has stressed that he would cooperate with the investigation.

Wellllll, it’s a New Year and the Trumpster doesn’t seem so inclined to sit down with Mueller now. In fact, he said it was “not likely” since there was “no collusion” with Russia.

In fact, Trump completely dodged giving a direct answer instead repeating the phrase “no collusion” 8 times in the span of a minute and a half.

Watch the video below, and check out that body language with his arms crossed. Just saying…

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Humility, Thy Name Is Trump? “What A Crowd, What A Turnout”

Donald Trump admiring his crowd size in Texas 

Humility, humility, where for art thou, humility?

Via The Hill:

Visting parts of Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey, Donald Trump was in classic form noting the size of his crowd gathered to see him.

“What a crowd, what a turnout,” Trump said to a crowd of several hundred people surrounding a fire station, according to a White House pool report.

The president reportedly spoke from a ladder between two fire trucks.

“Thank you,” Trump said to cheers.

“We love you, you are special, we are here to take care of you,” Trump said. “It’s going well.”

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Trump Congratulates Himself For Hurricane Harvey Rescue Effort “Going Well”

Donald Trump spent his morning on Twitter (for a change) hyping Hurricane Harvey as “the worst storm/hurricane,” and congratulating himself for “his” hurricane response.

But not once does he share info on how to get help if you are affected by Harvey. No empathy or humanity in his tweets.

And then there was this tweet reminding us what “presidential” looks like:

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Trump Gets Twice-Daily “Propaganda Document” Filled With Positive Stories About Him

President Trump

Via Vice:

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”

Apparently, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer used to compete about who got to deliver the packet of praise.

It’s no wonder Trump thinks his administration is doing better than it really is.

The Trumpster tweeted this just an hour ago:

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Boy Scouts & Mexican President Call Out Trump For Making Up Congratulatory Phone Calls

Donald Trump enjoys his flights of fancy

During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump said the Boy Scouts called him to say his speech at last week’s Jamboree was “the greatest speech that was ever made to them.”

The Boy Scouts have countered saying they know of no such phone call being made.

From the AP:

Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday, “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.” Politico published the transcript of the interview.

“We are unaware of any such call,” the Boy Scouts responded in a statement. It specified that neither of the organization’s two top leaders — President Randall Stephenson and Chief Scout Executive Mike Surbaugh — had placed such a call.

The White House had no immediate response to the Boy Scouts’ denial.

Surbaugh apologized last week to members of the scouting community who were offended by the political rhetoric in Trump’s July 24 speech in West Virginia.

Other U.S. presidents have delivered nonpolitical speeches at past jamborees. To the dismay of many parents and former scouts, Trump promoted his political agenda and derided his rivals, inducing some of the scouts in attendance to boo at the mention of former President Barack Obama.

“I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree,” Surbaugh said. “That was never our intent.”

During the Boy Scouts section of the interview, Trump grew irritated that a reporter in the room referred to the speech as getting “mixed” reception.

“There was no mix there,” Trump said. “That was a standing ovation from the time I walked out to the time I left, and for five minutes after I had already gone. There was no mix.”

In related news, CBS reports that Trump’s recent claim that Mexican President Nieto called him to congratulate him on such a great job on border control is false.

As Mr. Trump welcomed his new Chief of Staff John Kelly to the Cabinet table on Monday, Mr. Trump took time to applaud the work Kelly had done during his time leading the Department of Homeland Security. “At Homeland, what he has done has been nothing short of miraculous,” Mr. Trump said of Kelly.

He went on, saying, “As you know, the border was a tremendous problem and they’re close to 80 percent stoppage. And even the president of Mexico called me — they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.”

But Nieto denies that ever happened. In a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, Nieto “has not recently spoken to President Donald Trump over the telephone.”

So, is Trump lying? Or is he delusional?

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Trump Takes Credit For U.S. Economy, Former Obama Comm Director Sets Him Straight

Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to take credit for the current conditions in the U.S., writing, “Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!”

Remember when Trump said unemployment numbers were fake?

It’s worth noting that the day the Donald took office, the stock market was already at an all-time high after risen nearly 150% from the depth of the great recession to Obama’s final day in the White House.

Regarding unemployment, Trump was fortunate to inherit an unemployment rate that had declined from 10% during the worst of the recession to 4.7% as President Obama left office.

Regarding border security, it’s good to know Trump says the border is “secure.” I guess we don’t need to build a wall on the Mexican border now.

In any case, it was President Obama’s former White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer, who had the perfect response:

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Trump: “I Can Be More Presidential Than Any President That’s Held This Office”

“Sometimes they say, ‘He doesn’t act presidential.’ And I say, with the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s held this office. That I can tell you. It’s real easy.” – Donald Trump speaking in Youngstown, Ohio at an “I need attention” rally

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Trump Continues To Fixate On Electoral College Win

According to the New York Times, President Trump continues to stew and sulk that he has not received the credit nor the celebration he feels he deserves for landing in the White House.

In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election. The counties he won are blotchy red and span most of the nation.

Mr. Trump sometimes hands the maps out to visitors as a kind of parting gift, and a framed portrait-size version was hung on a wall in the West Wing last week. In conversations, the president dwells on the map and its import, reminding visitors about how wrong the polls were and inflating the scope of his victory.

At the root of Mr. Trump’s unpredictable presidency, according to people close to him, is a deep frustration about attacks on his legitimacy, and a worry that Washington does not see him as he sees himself.

As he careens from one controversy to another, many of them of his own making — like his abrupt decision to fire the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who was leading an investigation into the president’s associates — Mr. Trump seems determined to prove that he won the election on his own. It was not Russian interference. It was not Mr. Comey’s actions in the case involving Hillary Clinton’s emails. It was not a fluke of the Electoral College system. It was all him.

At times even Trump seems astounded that he is the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Celebrating the House vote on Trumpcare legislation a week ago in the White House Rose Garden, he asked Republican lawmakers, “How am I doing? Am I doing O.K.? I’m president. Hey, I’m president. Can you believe it?”