Even Trump wonders what he'd be like if not sober
President Trump, in the Rose Garden on Monday morning to celebrate a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, displayed a side seldom, if ever, seen before: a flash of self-awareness.
Goaded by reporters’ questions about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s memorable testimony last week — “I like beer! I still like beer!” — the teetotaling president offered an unsolicited thought on his own abstemiousness.
“I’m just saying, I’m not a drinker,” he said. “It’s one of my only good traits. … I’ve never had alcohol. I’ve just — you know, for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had what a mess I’d be? I’d be the world’s worst.”
I’ll raise a glass to that bit of introspection. The man often goes off on wild rhetorical benders fueled by nothing stronger than Diet Coke — something Trump was, at that very moment, proving anew.
Sunday night’s agreement on a successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement had given Trump a legitimate reason to crow about a “very, very good,” “terrific,” “amazing,” “incredible” and “historic” deal. But he then opted to take questions on Monday, after aides had signaled he wouldn’t. Inevitably, he trampled his good news with a new rant about the Kavanaugh affair.
Trump, crying “witch hunt,” said that he’s with Kavanaugh “all the way,” and that his nominee has “been treated horribly” and “so viciously and so violently.”
He said one of Kavanaugh’s accusers “has very little credibility,” and cast doubt on his primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford: “What day was it? Where was it? Do you know the location?”
Once he got started, Trump couldn’t stop. He complained about “crap” he gets from the news media, saying journalists are “loco” (a word he used “because of the fact that we made a deal with Mexico”).
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