He doesn't care if it is true or not. It makes for a better story. Being true or false is not even in the equation.
EC votes being largest since Reagan? Hey, that would make me popular. 9th circuit overturned 80% of the time? Those guys are wrong. Have to put the travel ban in place instantly instead of a week notice? Those guys are scary.

You can call him out all day long and it doesn't faze him. Because he doesn't care.

Ask a black woman to schedule a meeting with the black caucus since all black's know each other? He's just fucking with her to get a rise out of her.

Someone asks what his plans are for Russia? Neener, neener, neener. I know something you don't know.

We have an 8 year old internet troll as president. He doesn't care what he says that is offensive or stupid. He knows a bunch of what he says isn't trues and says it just to get under people's skin. As long as you pay attention to him he is happy and most of the worst stuff is done just to get a rise out of people. I'm surprised he doesn't go up to the reporters waving his hands close to their faces while chanting, "I'm not touching you."

I think people are delusional if they think there is any way to substantially bring down healthcare costs in the near future. Medicine is too good and getting better all the time and that innovation costs a lot. Then we have an aging, unhealthy population. I just can't see how when you take those factors into account healthcare costs are going to come down even if you made it as efficient and cost-effective as it could possibly be, and we know that's not going to happen.

So you guys who follow this stuff, was there any good reason to ask the black reporter to set up the meeting with CBC? I would assume if Trump wanted to meet with him there's a bevy of staffers that set this sort of thing up.

Seems really awkward of the all black people know one another stripe of clueless sort of relatively benign racism.

So you guys who follow this stuff, was there any good reason to ask the black reporter to set up the meeting with CBC? I would assume if Trump wanted to meet with him there's a bevy of staffers that set this sort of thing up.
Seems really awkward of the all black people know one another stripe of clueless sort of relatively benign racism.

Easy answer, like in every other industrialized nation:

(1) take out the profit motive of the insurance companies.
(2) standardize the cost structure for everyone for any given procedure.

Medicare for all (single payer) is coming - it might be 5 years from now, or 20 years from now, but it will happen. As it should.

Reporter: When you say inner cities, are you gonna include the CBC, mr. President, in the conversations with your urban agenda, your inner city agenda, as well as—
Trump: Am I gonna—am I gonna include who?
Reporter: Are you gonna include the Congressional Black Caucus and —
Trump: Well, I would. I tell you what, you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting?
Reporter: No, no, no I'm just a reporter.
Trump: Are they friends of yours?
Reporter: I know some of them —
Trump: No, go ahead, set up the meeting. Let's go. Set up a meeting, I would love to meet with the black caucus. I think it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great. I actually thought I had a meeting with Congressman Cummings, and he was all excited, and then he said, oh, I can't move. It might be bad for me politically. I can't have that meeting. I was all set to have that meeting. You know we called him and called him. And he was all set. I spoke to him on the phone, a nice guy.
Reporter: I hear he wanted that meeting with you as well.
Trump: He wanted it. But we called called called called. I can't make a meeting with him. Every day, I walk in, I said, I would like to meet with him, because I do want to solve the problem. But he probably was told by Schumer or somebody like that, some other lightweight.
He was probably told — he was probably told, don't meet with Trump. It's bad politics. That's part of the problem in this country. Okay. One more.

I watched it. I thought Trump was in his element and having a great time. He talked about a lot of policy. A lot. But let's see how much of that gets out via the press in the room.

You've got to work had to keep up with Don's stories.

Who can do that, or who wants to?

But I think it is part of his plan. Sessions A.G., DeVos Ed, and today Pruitt EPA. All seeming to slip in without too much coverage -- at least from what I see. I'm thinking that most liberals gotta be thinking, Ted Cruz might have been better than this guy, and couldn't have been worse.

Did Obama stop warming before he left office? Or why is there no environmental thread here about Pruitt?