'I love this job': In interview Trump dismisses critics, vows to go it alone
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The interview came on a busy day at the White House as the President sought to rebound from the 35-day partial government shutdown that failed to force Democrats to finance his wall. Fresh from a meeting with China’s Vice Premier Liu He, Trump seemed relaxed and confident as he sought to make his case, distributing handouts including, at one point, printed copies of two tweets sent out in his name even as he was speaking with his visitors.
The interview was arranged after Trump reached out to A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, and invited him for an off-the-record dinner. Sulzberger declined, saying he would prefer an on-the-record interview that included two of his reporters. The President agreed.
Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk, sipping periodically from a glass of Diet Coke with ice cubes resting on a gold coaster. His acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney; his senior communications adviser, Bill Shine; and his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sat in on the session with Sulzberger and the two Times reporters.
Trump spoke with a low voice, his arms folded tightly during questions about the Russia inquiry. But he was more good humoured at other points. He grew most animated when describing media coverage he considers unfair. At one point, he scoffed at the notion that he was making money from the presidency, calling the job a “loser” financially.
“I lost massive amounts of money doing this job,” he said. “This is not the money. This one of the great losers of all time. You know, fortunately, I don’t need money. This is one of the great losers of all time. But they’ll say that somebody from some country stayed at a hotel. And I’ll say, ‘Yeah.’ But I lose, I mean, the numbers are incredible.”
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