None of it is ever going to be normal
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Thursday 16 February 2017 17.30 EST
... When the president goes on a freeform monologue .. almost the length of a motion picture .. the news can be overwhelming ...
... The president was confidently unhinged as he spent more than an hour berating the press and boasting without any real basis that “there has never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time”.
... Trump needled reporters and engaged in a brand of insult comedy .. familiar from the campaign trail. At times, reporters couldn’t help but laugh .. because Trump’s comments were just that wacky and bizarre.
At times, the interactions with reporters went .. into a Twilight Zone. Trump told an Orthodox Jewish reporter who asked him about an upsurge in antisemitic incidents that he had asked “a very insulting question”. He later suggested to an African American reporter who had asked about whether Trump had consulted with the Congressional Black Caucus about his plan for inner cities that she should organize the meeting ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/donald-trump-press-conference-administration-defense-media
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