Chris Cillizza gets snarky on Trump guns meeting yesterday

The 43 most eye-popping lines from Donald Trump's 'surreal' gathering on guns

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/politics/trump-guns-meeting-analysis/index.html

11. "It's idealistic, it's wonderful, it's a beautiful thing."
Evergreen Trump quote.

23. "I think it's a position. It's a position."
Is it a position or not? I can't live in the kind of limbo!!

25. "Texas, as an example, is very much as to what I'm saying."
¯_(ツ _/¯

26. "I think that some states are different."
Fact Check: True!

27. "It's the best we've ever done, too. By far."
It's not clear to me from the context what Trump is referring to here. But I guess it doesn't matter because, whatever it was, it was the best ever.


40. "If we can come up with something that's very strong, very heavy with mental illness, very heavy, and everything."
Trump requirements regarding mental illness in a gun bill:
Very strong
Very heavy
Everything

41. "I'm not into popularity, I'm into getting something done that's good."
Ahem.

42. "If you could all get together and we could put it in one great piece of legislation."
If you're counting -- and I am -- that's the sixth time a Republican president has pushed for a comprehensive bill on guns in this meeting alone.

43. "I'd rather have you come down on the strong side instead of the weak side."
To summarize: Strong > Weak