Exclusive: Trump says he thought being president would be easier than his old life
Source: Reuters
Thu Apr 27, 2017 | 11:19 PM EDT
By Stephen J. Adler, Jeff Mason and Steve Holland | WASHINGTON
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President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.
"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
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More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.
"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "Its pretty good, right? The red is obviously us." ............................
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I have no empathy-none at all.
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JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)...To A Blind Horse, Stupid Fool.
Docreed2003
(16,887 posts)3catwoman3
(24,078 posts)Further proof that he is too stupid to be in the White House. Jesus H.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Imagine if he actually did any of work being a real President requires.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)it would be fine with us if you just went on back to your old life and hand the job over to the very capable woman who really won.
riversedge
(70,362 posts)sigh!
C Moon
(12,224 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)There are no words! I just knocked a few people, I have known since grade school, off my fucking, stupid, Facebook. God how I detest Facebook. I am pretty much down to only family members and have knocked a few of them off for insane posts. I do enjoy keeping up with my deceased mother's cousins but that's about it.
My rant is because the last few people had posts that said that most people (like most of America) don't understand the genius of he-who-shall-not-be-named.
Then this crap. Too hard?
christx30
(6,241 posts)he's found a way of digging. That's kind of amazing, actually. He thought the presidency would be LESS work than running his company? He hasn't paid attention to the other 12 guys that's been in the office since he was born? Never even sat down and watched one episode of the West Wing? I wish the jokes had been true, and he had even googled "what does a president do" before he took office. That might of saved us from seeing his ugly face on Inauguration day.
Mr. President, if it gets to be too much, all of us certainly understand. Freedom is just a signature away. No one would blame you. Hell, you could even say that you accomplished everything you wanted to in just 100 days. It's no bigger lie than any other you've told in the last 2 years as a, for lack of a better word, serious candidate. Your followers would applaud, and you could walk out with your head held high and have your health. Yes, we'd be stuck with Pence, and he's just as much of a turd as you. But you don't need the headache. I support your resignation. I'll even buy the pen. It's on me.
sinkingfeeling
(51,482 posts)JDC
(10,136 posts)Maybe he got "Quittin" advice from Palin during last week's visit
not fooled
(5,803 posts)How stupid do you have to be to not realize that being POTUS is the most difficult job on the planet???
Very, very stupid. Just shows that dumpster don thought he would be playing some sort of ceremonial king, not actually governing. Just disgusting.
progree
(10,927 posts)"This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)"You're really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can't go anywhere," he said.
He can't go ANYWHERE......except Mar-ma-lado every weekend, except to play golf every week, either in Florida or Virginia. Yes, Mr. Tiny Hands is a prisoner inside the White House. Of course one of his campaign promises WAS not to leave the White House because of the work load he'd have. There would certainly be NO TIME for golf, like that slacker Obama!
I can't tell anymore if his lies are the truth, or of he's lying about his lies. Does that even make any sense? I'm going cross-eyed trying to figure out all of his lies.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Jesus; he's handing out electoral college maps !!!!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)someone isn't convinced that he TRULY IS the duly elected President. It IS incredulous. There's not a doubt in my mind that he wakes up some mornings, looks in the mirror and says to himself, "what the fuck have I done"?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)And that he thought it was like being a King.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)If his first 100 days are any indication, Trump will be a one term president, at best.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)into the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia will bear fruit, and this blubbery orange gob of goo will be impeached much sooner than 2020.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Never dreamed there were people dumber than himself who would elect him to office.
Judi Lynn
(160,655 posts)Surely he knew how unqualified he was, and is.
How much did he really do at his former job, or did he actually hire people to do all the work which requires skill or patience or maturity?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)be allowed to treasonously collude with evil-empire* russia to corrupt and overthrow American democracy by perpetrating Acts of War**.
* per Ronald Reagan
** per Dick Cheney
tomp
(9,512 posts)padah513
(2,510 posts)He doesn't do anything but play golf every week!
trusty elf
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LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)He's got doom all over him.... Two riders were approaching...
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)War and Death? I wouldn't dismiss famine and pestilence, considering how unconcerned his administration is with climate change. Maybe he'll drop dead soon.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)All Along the Watchtower
Song by Bob Dylan
There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth
No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Outside in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl
Songwriters: Bob Dylan
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Croney
(4,673 posts)They've twisted his words once again! He loves the job bigly, it's a piece of cake (chocolate) and he's the best president ever to run the country and he does it so great! So great! 💩
hatrack
(59,594 posts)Does the phrase "Hardest Job In The World" ring a bell? Does it exist for a reason?
Stupid, smirking pantload.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)of the United States when he was elected president, and he could do whatever he wanted.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)He'll work a deal with Mike Pence to keep his kids involved somehow...Ambassadors, etc.
Maybe he realizes that he really is miserable and now what is the end game? Work hard for 3 more years, campaign his ass off again, and if he wins live a life of hell for another 4 years to which he will be 78 years old.
Zoonart
(11,890 posts)Some days the only thing that gets me through is knowing how much he hates this job.
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)you just resign? Go home. Go golfing in Scotland. Just take your spoiled brats with you.
I'm sick of him claiming every other trade deal is "horrible, horrible". And "believe me," and "that I can tell you." I'm tired of him trashing everyone else's work.
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)FakeNoose
(32,833 posts)He may get to decide whether he wants a padded cell (crazy) or iron bars (prison).
After all this treason and shit he's done to us, he'll never get his old life back.
We have to show the world and the deplorables the final results of this guy's fuckery.
He doesn't get to walk away from it.
Then we deal with Pence, McConnell and Ryan.
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)And, yea, I believe the whole lot of them deserve cell time.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Hi 45
Election is over. Time to deal with the reality of governing, big boy.
tanyev
(42,642 posts)I feel sorry for the nurses who will attend him in his final years.
TommyCelt
(838 posts)It's like a security blanket for him.
lostnfound
(16,193 posts)Imagine if you were up against a democratic congress that was fighting you every step.
Justice
(7,188 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Its difficult to destroy democracy
But its near "mission accomplished" for this douchebag
Shell_Seas
(3,338 posts)Why is he STILL president?
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)Coventina
(27,217 posts)bighart
(1,565 posts)His experience is so limited to just pounding his fist on the table, making threats and people doing what he tells them that he can't seem to grasp the notion that it in governing a nation and being a political leader on the world stage that just doesn't work.
I think he believed he could just make demands, bark orders and threaten people and they would do what those in his organization did, carry out his orders.
He may be starting to regret running and I hope to hell he ends up thinking it was the worst decision of his protected, pampered, spoiled life.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)believe that being President is EASIER than any corporate CEO job.
There is NO such thing as a day off. NONE. You are on call 24/7/365. Arguably, during office, you don't get paid enough. Once out of office, yes, you can get rich in addition to your pension and lifetime Secret Service detail.
Maybe he was lying ? Not like he has ever LIED before.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)He keeps talking like he's paving the way for him to leave.
JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)he'll concoct some convoluted story about how Clinton, Obama and the Democrats have made it impossible for him to make America Great Again and off he'll go.
C_U_L8R
(45,027 posts)Dear God, protect us all from this moron.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)and he has said some very very dumb things..
xor
(1,204 posts)I'm sure he really had no idea how hard being president would be. It makes me think about when I was a kid and I asked the adults around me if they wanted to be president, and they all said something "hell no! That's a tough job". I didn't understand that as a kid, but as I got older it became very obviously how difficult being a leader of any nation would be. Every action you take or don't take has huge consequences. That seems like something any rational thinking adult would be able to figure out. What the hell is wrong with Trump?
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)even during the weekends at the White House. He said he wouldn't have time for vacations and golfing.
Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)almighty white working class/rural/rust belt voter and ask them for comment...
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)Nobody will try to talk him out of it !
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)freedom and privacy that would be his Achilles heel. This is already getting to him. He wants to eat popcorn and watch a movie every nite and cannot. This is what he means about work. He thought he could make a couple of phone calls, wave to the people from his golden coach and go eat bonbons.