The world revolves around Trump | 5 takeaways from the US President’s interview with “failing” New York Times

The 45th President of the United States is a peculiar kind.

About a month ago, President Trump tweeted in an attack on “Fake News Media”, “The failing @nytimes writes false story after false story about me. They don’t even call to verify the facts of a story. A Fake News Joke!”. But on Wednesday, he let the door of his Oval Office open to three reporters from the failing New York Times and in a 50-minute interview that is filled with the usual ramblings, incoherence, blame games, a few regrets and several denials, we learn that Trump is unrelenting in his character and the world will just have to adjust.

Here are five takeaways from the interview:

  1. President Trump is clearly obsessed with Hillary Clinton: Six months after beating the former Secretary of State to win the presidential election, Trump has still not learned to keep Clinton’s name out of his mouth. With every chance given, he blames her for some of the failures of the Obama administration and has shown no inclination towards refraining from throwing piercing jabs at her. He comes across as a man who is unsure of himself and his ability to have won that election. Somewhere in Trump’s mind, Clinton may still be a threat. He alluded to this when he referred to her in several parts of the interview as “tough”, “strong” and “very capable”.
  2. The world revolves around Trump: If it didn’t, Trump would not have indirectly taken the glory for his granddaughter’s smartness. The child, Arabella Kushner walks in mid-interview, proud grandad Trump introduces her to the reporters and does not forget to mention how proficient the 6-year-old is in Chinese so he makes her say “hello” to the Times guys in the language. But he wasn’t done. Trump made the little girl say “I love you Grandpa” in Chinese then closes that episode by making it all about himself: “Good, smart genes”.
  3. President Trump has a lot more to spill: And all we have to do in wait as he will reveal every detail in due time (or not). When he addressed the questions surrounding all the people involved in the investigation of his ties with Russia, he pinpoints each one of them relaying his regrets about picking Jeff Sessions for the Attorney General job and his lack of interest in Rod Rodenstein who he plainly assumes would be biased against him because he’s a Democrat. After much said, Trump admits that there were a lot of conflicts that he hasn’t talked about but promises “he will at some point”. So we wait.
  4. The US President needs to take speech lessons (from beginners level): We’re confused:  So, it was tremendous media. And we took a picture of everybody, the wives and the leaders, and then the leaders, and, you know, numerous pictures outside on the river. Then everybody walked in to see the opera. Then the opera ended. Then we walked into a big room where they had dinner for not only the leaders — Lagarde [Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund] was there, who I think is terrific, and various others. You had the E.U. people there, people other than just the leaders, but quite a few people. I would say you have 20 times two, so you had 40, and then you probably had another 10 or 15 people, you had Christine Lagarde, you had some others also.

Then this: “O.K., so we’re sitting at this massive table. And the wives are separated from their husbands, which sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. But they did. It’s always easier when they don’t do it, because you always have somebody to talk to, right? And I was sitting next to the president of Argentina — his wife — [Mauricio] Macri — nice woman, who speaks English. And the prime minister of Japan’s wife, Prime Minister Abe. Great relationships. So I’m sitting there. There was one interpreter for Japanese, ’cause otherwise it would have been even tougher. But I enjoyed the evening with her, and she’s really a lovely woman, and I enjoyed — the whole thing was good.

5. We wonder what Japan thinks of this subtle insult on its Prime Minister’s wife: Trump was far from impressed when he sat next to Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe’s wife who has no knowledge of the almighty English Language. He tried to hide it but his response to the interviewer’s questions told the world all that there is to know. Read the conversation below:

TRUMP: So, I was seated next to the wife of Prime Minister Abe [Shinzo Abe of Japan], who I think is a terrific guy, and she’s a terrific woman, but doesn’t speak English.

HABERMAN: Like, nothing, right? Like zero?

TRUMP: Like, not “hello.”

HABERMAN: That must make for an awkward seating.

TRUMP: Well, it’s hard, because you know, you’re sitting there for——

HABERMAN: Hours.

TRUMP: So the dinner was probably an hour and 45 minutes.

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