Trump is having more 'fun' this time: Trump said he's "having a lot of fun" — and a Trump ally said he has a "twinkle in his eye." Trump said he "had all these crooked guys" during his first administration.
What Trump told his staff after the Signal group chat controversy: "Maybe don't use Signal, okay?"
Trump on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "I think he's gonna get it together. ... I had a talk with him, a positive talk, but I had a talk with him."
Trump's strategy to take on media companies: "'You know at some point, they give up,' [Trump] said, referring to media owners generally and—we suspected—[Washington Post owner Jeff] Bezos specifically. 'At some point they say, No más, no más.' He laughed quietly."
BY THE WAY: Trump posted about The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg — yes, the person mistakenly added to the national security group chat — ahead of the interview, saying he planned to meet with him too. The president said he did the interview with the magazine "out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself."
TIDBIT: Trump's first White House press secretary Sean Spicer criticized the decision to speak with the publication. Spicer: "[Trump] firmly believes … that he can win people over. But anyone who believes that Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, or Ashley Parker are going to write anything positive is nuts." 📹 Watch the clip (posted by Michael Scherer)
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