Trump on being President: "I thought it would be easier."

This comes from an exclusive story from Reuters --

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. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."

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It does stike me that his intent was to simply hold the title as the President of the United States of America, mostly because he keeps jumping backwards to the whole " Look, I won. Look" and that he thought it would be easy to be in the White House.

@fishpockets:

And I thought Republican voters were smarter. I guess we were both wrong.

Just quit trump you won't make it in 4 years

Poor guy. :-(

This is obviously fake news. Whoever this Trump person is, he needs to stop making criticizing Trump.

"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."

Funny.

It's also funny to see people misinterpret this statement and missing the point.

Lesson is take it easy on a new job.

No one knew it could be so complicated.

oh boy, here are the revisionists with their alternative facts.

should I laugh or should I be concerned?

Well he showed Obama.

His age doesn't make it easier for him either.

Trump, a classic narcissist, enjoys the title of "most powerful man in the western world" more than the job itself.

Shows you what an incompetent fool this guy is... and completely naive.

America really lowered its standards by electing an amateur and a fool.

What alternative facts?

If you want to talk about alternative facts, your interpretation is as "alternative" as any other.

The only one who know 100% what was meant is Trump himself.

Shhh. It's okay. All the lies on Trump are obviously false, except the obvious falsehoods which are true.

It's okay. Those mean 'ol liberals won't scare you anymore little snowflake. :)

lol nice wrong use of Snowflake.

I hate to see how you react to the world when you move out of your parents house.

But he goes on vacation every weekend.

Please stop.

Seriously.

Not sure there's any defense here. No misinterpretation.

Trump obviously thought the hard part was the election. Joke is on him, poor bastard. And poor us. Damn, but will Pence really be any better? I mean as embarrassing as Trump is, he really is not helping the Republican party; Pence might actually get stuff done.

I thought it would be easy to get up this morning...guess it wasn't...

Or maybe he had the idea that running america would be like running a business.

Like I said, no defense.

And how is that better? What, is he supposed to run America like one of his hotels or casinos?

My god! Just... *facepalm*

What a sad, sad joke Trump is. lmao

@xdude85: But America didn't elect him.

You are so enthralled with party politics that you can't get past the meaning of a simple sentence.

Jesus. And I thought you attacking weed literally only because your party told you to was pathetic.

I posted this in another thread, still holds up here:

Trump thought being the President of the United States of America would be easier than his past life? Isn't that literally what he said? Jesus. The degree of stupidity needed not to be able to conceptualize the magnitude of responsibility of being the president and what a change of lifestyle it will be is hard to fathom. How could anyone not know that is going to change your life in a major way?

It's no wonder Trump speaks in such high idealisms about his plans; everything's going to be "tremendous", "wonderful", "great", "fantastic", it'll be done on his lunch break, yada yada yada.....it's because he genuinely has no conception about what he speaks on so he promises the world in only a short timeframe. Then we get gems like, "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated" when those pesky particulars of policy rear their heads. Uh, yes you orange twat, many know (and have known) for years how complicated it is. The everyday joe blow who pays any attention to politics knows. Sad thing is, people fully believe what Trump says. He's been a con-man from day one who's been able to convince people to support him in a job that he had no idea what it entailed.

I can't even blame Trump for this really, as he obviously lacks the intelligence to grasp it. I'm sure the presidency is a system shock to anyone, but to think it'd be easier than his old life? That's a statement so unaware and ignorant that it borders on senility. I really hope Trump craves his old life, then he'll resign or only run for one term. God willing, but he won't. He'll gut it out as his ego won't let him quit.

Nope, it's only his health that can be relied on now for an early end to this sad comedy.

Maybe Obama never should joked about him during one of those dinner correspondence.

Trump is an idiot. And I doubt his IQ is very high. Hell even grade school know president isn't an easy job.

@LJS9502_basic: Trump has a very good brain. Just ask any of his supporters.

He'd probably try to run irregardless, I do think he's attempted to become the republican candidate for the precidency twice before.

How can he always say what he means but nobody can know what he means when he says things? What an enigma, Trump is.

His biggest critics don't want him to resign, because he would still leave with all of the privileges every other former president would have (to include the power to run for office again if he chose to do so), and Vice President Pence would just move up.

Many of them would rather that he get impeached, so he wouldn't be able to accept a pardon from newly inaugurated President Pence the same way President Nixon was pardoned by President Ford (the president can't pardon impeachment), and with an impeachment, he may end up taking down others in his administration instead of being the sole casualty. Also, if it happens after the midterm elections and a Democrat is the Speaker of the House at that point, then it is only a matter of getting rid of Pence too.

For some of them, it's not just about getting Trump out of office, it's personal and they want him to suffer and they want to send a message to any other politician that has similar ideas. For everyone else, a resignation may be just what will make them feel better.

Oh true. Well he stepped up his game this time.

Possibly, or people just swallowed his pitch with hook, line and sinker.

Though I figured he was done for during the campaign when he said he could go out into a street, shoot someone and still have voters. Kinda just shook my head and found the popcorn when that was given a " all clear" for a candidate aiming to be president in a country with quite a record of shootings.

Been entertaining to watch so far.

To be honest, pretty much every candidate thinks that. Obama thought shutting down Guantanimo Bay would be a walk in the park. Still open.