Got a minute? President calls 100 days ‘an artificial barrier’... boasts of best ratings ‘since the World Trade middle came down’... Obama reappears… and everything else today in US politics. By Tom McCarthy 10.47pm BSTAs his presidency neared the symbolic 100 days milestone,Donald Trump was trying to cram funding for a border wall into a congressional deal to avert a government shutdown.
Shutdown risk 10.47pm BSTThe hundred days is just an artificial barrier. The press keeps talking about the hundred days. But we’ve done a lot. You beget a list of things. – Donald Trump, to the Associated Press 10.46pm BSTI beget, and seem to regain very tall ratings... It’s the highest they’ve ever had. 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, or ‘Deface the Nation.’ It’s the highest for ‘Deface the Nation’ since the World Trade middle. Since the World Trade middle came down. Its a tremendous advantage. Donald Trump to the Associated Press 10.46pm BSTWe’re going to be applying,I shouldn’t relate you this, but we’re going to be announcing, or probably on Wednesday,tax reform. And it’s – we’ve worked on it long and hard. And you’ve got to understand, I’ve only been here now 93 days, or 92 days.– Donald Trump to the Associated Press 10.46pm BSTAP: Can I ask you,over your first 100 days – youre not quite there yet – how do you feel like the office has changed you?TRUMP: Well the one thing I would say – and I say this to people – I never realized how tremendous it was. Everythings so (unintelligible) like, you know the orders are so massive.– More Trump 10.45pm BSTObama: "So, and uh,what’s been going on while I’ve been gone?" pic.twitter.com/Esac4fD5mP 10.45pm BSTPres Trump addresses International Space Station with astronaut Kate Rubins and daughter Ivanka. pic.twitter.com/XYr4ONLEdA 10.44pm BSTMacron. Flying cars. Maddow #1 in TV news. Welcome to hell.
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Source: theguardian.com