Thread: Donald Trump's me, me, me, me press conference

Donald Trump's me, me, me, me press conference

Chris Cillizza
Updated 8:53 PM ET, Wed September 26, 2018

Washington (CNN) On the eve of a potentially make or break moment for his Supreme Court nominee, President Donald Trump held a press conference to talk about his favorite subject: Himself.

Asked about whether he believed the women who had made accusations of sexual assault or inappropriate conduct against Brett Kavanaugh were liars, Trump responded by noting that he also had been the target of allegations like this.

"I've been accused ... by four or five women, who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me who made a lot of money," Trump said.

(Fact check: More than a dozen women have accused Trump of a variety of charges relating to sexual behavior. He has denied all the charges and threatened to sue those women after the conclusion of the 2016 campaign. He hasn't filed any of those lawsuits.)

(Fact check 2: Trump's one-time personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has testified under oath that Trump directed and coordinated payments to two women -- porn star Stormy Daniels and ex-Playmate Karen McDougal -- aimed at buying their silence in the lead-up to the 2016 vote. Both women alleged they had extramarital affairs with Trump in the mid 2000s.)

That answer -- comparing his own accusers to those of Kavanaugh -- surely made Senate Republicans who are desperately trying to confirm the judge groan. It was far from the only time that Trump turned a question (OK, any question) at the press conference into a soliloquy about his greatness.

When asked about Kim Jong Un, Trump said that if he had not been elected president, the United States and North Korea would be at war now.

When asked about his planned meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein tomorrow, Trump said that Rosenstein had been "very nice" to him.

When asked what sort of message he was sending by raising questions about Kavanaugh's accusers, Trump noted that he had won 52% of the female vote in 2016.

(Fact check 3: He actually won 41% of the women's vote. He won 52% of white women. He received 4% among black women and 25% among Hispanic women. Here's the exit poll to prove it.)

When asked about the impact of his tariffs on farmers, he noted that farmers love him.

When he called on a reporter for The New York Times, he said the reporter -- Mark Landler -- should thank him for the profits the company was making.

Again and again and again, Trump turned the conversation to himself. It was an 81-minute running riff on a) all the things HE has done and b) all the things HE doesn't get credit for.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/polit...sis/index.html

LOL!!! You're jealous, Chris Cillizza, and it's showing. Some of us actually watched all 81 minutes of this really great press conference, so we know what he talked about, and he talked about Brett Kavanaugh, the women accusers, Chairman Kim, President Moon, leaders of many countries, many foreign affairs issues, Syria, the Kurds, Yemen, the Gulf States, Middle East Peace, Peace and Denuclearization with North Korea, Canada, Trudeau, Mexico, NAFTA, Iran, Rob Rosenstein, etc., etc., etc. It had too many questions about the women, the hearing and Kavanaugh, but other than that, it was a great comprehensive press conference, and I have to say, I've never seen a President speak off the cuff as well as this President does.

Yep, nobody can deny that Trump is an expert at publicly beating his own drum, deserved or not.

And thank goodness he can and has just a great track drum to beat the drum about, which is of course, what gets people the most, how truly amazing his accomplishments are both in number and significance in such a short period of time, against the world, against the DemoQuacks, against the swamp, against the deep state, and yes, even against some Republicans. It's incredible.