Donald Trump sat down with Julie Pace from the AP to talk about his first 100 days in office and it was as freewheeling and incoherent as you might expect.
“The one thing I’ve learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do” Trump said when asked about the challenges of the job, “I don’t watch CNN anymore.”
Throughout the interview, Trump spewed all sorts of false assertions about his leadership skills, pushed untrue narratives about his popularity and success, and once again made it explicitly clear that he doesn’t really know what the hell he’s even talking about.
Scroll down for 10 of the most ridiculous quotes from Donald’s interview…
On being president:
Well, the one thing I would say–and I say this to people–I never realized how big it was. Everything’s so (unintelligible) like, you know, the orders are so massive. I was talking to–Number one, there’s great responsibility. When it came time to, as an example, send out the 59 missiles, the Tomahawks in Syria, I’m saying to myself, “You know, this is more than just like, 79 (sic) missiles. This is death that’s involved,” because people could have been killed!
On CNN:
Okay. The one thing I’ve learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do. I don’t watch CNN anymore. … They treat me so badly. No, I just said that. No, I–What’d I say?–I stopped watching them! But I don’t watch CNN anymore.
On the media, in general:
I never thought I had the ability to not watch what is unpleasant, if it’s about me. Or pleasant. But when I see it’s such false reporting, and such bad reporting, and false reporting that I’ve developed an ability that I never thought I had. I don’t watch things that are unpleasant. I just don’t watch them. … I don’t watch CNN anymore. I don’t watch MSNBC anymore. I don’t watch things. And I never thought I had that ability. I always thought I’d watch. I just don’t.
On the wall:
The opponents are talking $25 billion for the wall. It’s not going to cost anywhere near that! I think $10 billion or less. And if I do a super-duper, higher, better, better security, everything else, maybe it goes a little bit more. But it’s not going to be anywhere near (those) kind of numbers. And they’re using those numbers; they’re using the high numbers to make it sound impalatable (sic).
On his base:
People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall. My base really wants it. You’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base. I think my base is 45 percent. You know? It’s funny.
On his speech to Congress:
A lot of the people have said that, some people said, it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber.
On the media, again:
I have learned one thing, because I get treated very unfairly, that’s what I call it, the fake media. And the fake media is not all of the media. You know, they tried to say that the fake media was all the–No! The fake media is some of you. I could tell you who it is, 100 percent. Sometimes you’re fake, but–but the fake media is some of the media.
On his high TV ratings:
I have, it’s interesting, I have, seem to get very high ratings. I definitely. You know, Chris Wallace had 9.2 million people, it’s the highest in the history of the show! I have all the ratings for all those morning shows. When I go, they go double, triple. … On any, on air, (CBS “Face the Nation” host John) Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It’s the highest for “Face the Nation” or as I call it, “Deface the Nation.” It’s the highest for “Deface the Nation” since the World Trade Center. Since the World Trade Center came down!
On how “big” everything is:
The financial cost of everything is so massive, every agency. This is thousands of times bigger, the United States, than the biggest company in the world. … It’s massive! And every agency is, like, bigger than any company. So, you know, I really just see the bigness of it all.
On why being president requires “love”:
Well in business, you don’t necessarily need heart, whereas here, almost everything affects people. … Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don’t involve heart. In fact, in business you’re actually better off without it. You have to love people. And if you love people, such a big responsibility.
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Mo Bro
Like we say here in Florida:
Gators gonna gate, and haters gonna hate.
RIGay
What an asshat.
NateOcean
It’s a little hard to follow, but I think Trump just bragged about being the biggest disaster covered on “Face the Nation” since the World Trade Center came down.
natekerchel
That incoherent garbage just confirms what we all knew – the beast and his ‘base’ are the truly uneducated. What is ‘impalatable’? Dolt. Even if we are being very generous, the number of votes he got is nowhere near 45% of the American people. What he got was 46% of the people who voted – that is a very different figure – it’s about 26% of the whole electorate. Even if, as he claims, his ‘base’ is 45% that’s still not a majority. The far right have a way of being very vocal and noisy and seeming to be in the majority – the real story is always very different. ‘The bigness of it all’? Really? Sounds like a child. The only truth he told was about not requiring a heart in business – that’s the real him. He suddenly developed empathy when he slid into the Oval Office? No – people like him and his supporters and defenders are not burdened with empathy for anyone but themselves and their agenda of hate and discrimination. No doubt there will be complaints that the article is biased and that we all hate trump. Well I don’t know trump personally – so I don’t hate him. I certainly despise his repulsive views on minority issues and the way he talks about and deals with women. I don’t believe he is fit to be President of the USA – and not just because he did not win enough REAL votes. I find it hard to think of a dumber ‘President’ – including Bush.
1EqualityUSA
I had to stop reading. It scared me, after having had such a nice day with a friend. Is he going to be the next David Duke, once impeached? He wants to be admired, even if the desired veneration is coming from dark passengers. The Grand Wizard is going down politically, though his “base” will worship him more, once pesky constraints are lifted. This worldly, common man will not be ignored. Displacing sand with my feet, I contemplated how my foot changed everything under it forever. The imprint changed the micro-landscape from what it would have been. It exposed some grains to winds, altering their course. It ground off molecules that otherwise may have stayed in place. A footprint on an orb, suspended in firmament. How much more, bombs? How much more, pointing at another’s vessel, disparagingly? We blaze an energy trail in everything we do, say, and think. A road map to who we are, an imprint, an exact record, pushes through our flesh, revealing. Judgement is truth. What could be more accurate than a biochemical trail based on what we were, how we directed our minds, and what we did to others? This nub of a world and all of the treasures in it, an illusion. Energy, holding atoms together, gives dust form. Particulate beings. Our energy lives in this molecule soup. We are unveiled. Our ego directs a story, biochemically told. The effect we have on others tells our tale. Our existence is judgement. Trump could never comprehend this. What fools these mortals be.
Nobody passes us in the deep quiet
Of the dark sky
Nobody sees us alone out here
Among the stars
(Eno)
1EqualityUSA
Sorry for misspellings and such. Feeding dogs and cats.
Jack Meoff
If his appalling speech patterns and incoherent and incomplete sentences are a reflection of the way his thought processes work it’s scary to think he is in such an important position. With the background he has and the education he received he should have a much better grasp of the English language. Makes me wonder if he has a learning disability or something like that.
Heywood Jablowme
“My base, which is a big base. I think my base is 45 percent.”
Judging by his golf photos and his famous New Yorker cover, his “base” is at least a size 48.
natekerchel
I cant believe it – not a single trump lover coming to his defence! Have they seen the light?
Bellerophon69
Given his mannerisms, his “Bad Girl” tweets, and his vocabulary, Trump is secretly either a “Valley Girl” or he got the idea for “Trump U” from Warton, who he really should sue for a refund for letting him graduate with such a ppor grasp of grammar, manners, and politics!
Aranos
He talks and thinks like a 5 year old.
Gives you a good idea on how dumb his supporters must be…
Neonegro
Yes, but we were smart enough to keep your girl Clinton out of the white house.
But the best part is watching the radical gays whine and whine and whine and whine in their usual high pitched voices….lol…lol
Oh the joy of it all.