Read the transcript of the Associated Press's interview with Trump

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Read the transcript of AP’s interview with President Trump

By The Associated Press
today

I'm not going to bother.

[yonder]

1. Taking one for the team, here are a few no context quotes:

"Well, you’d have to speak to the lawyers. I don’t even know what the lawyers are doing, but they are very good lawyers. They’ll figure it out."

"I mean, you know, I am a person that believes very, very strongly in the environment. I am truly an environmentalist. I know some people might not think of me as that, but I’m an environmentalist. Everything I want and everything I have is clean. Clean is very important — water, air."

"My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years. Dr. John Trump. And I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture."

"They’re all laughing. And you know if I often hear that Russia likes to sow discord. The word is sow, an old English term. They like to sow chaos and discord. Well, if that’s the case, you gave it to them on a silver platter because this is ridiculous. This was an excuse made by the Democrats for the reason they lost the electoral college, which gives them a big advantage — a big advantage. Very different than the popular vote. The popular vote would be much easier to win if you were campaigning on it. You know, it’s like running the 100-yard dash versus a 10-mile run. You train differently. Nobody explained that to Hillary Clinton, by the way."

AP: There are children who have now been reunited with their families who are now showing signs of trauma from their separation experience.

Trump: By the way, many of the children — and this is unfortunate, I covered it so nicely on ’60 Minutes,? but they only put on pieces of it, and they were fine but you know they cut, cut, cut because I guess they have so much time, although I heard that they did very nicely on the show. Did they do well?

Well, there's plenty more, but I have to go hurl.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He just opens his mouth and words fall out.

He's like those magnetic poetry kits - a box of words on magnetic backing that you can arrange on a metal surface like a refrigerator door to make some kind of poetry. He's got boxes of words that he sticks on the virtual refrigerator door of a media interview or Twitter. And sometimes, but not always, actual sentences are formed, like there might be a subject and a verb. He pulls random words out of his magnetic poetry boxes based on the topic; for example, if the interviewer raises the subject of the environment, he reaches into the box labeled "Environment" and sticks up the randomly-selected words "Clean is very important."

He's an idiot.

[yonder]

3. Perhaps the inverse of James Joyce?

"Stream of Random Unconsciousness"

[Grasswire2]

4. Kudos to Jonathan Lemire, WH correspondent for AP.

He is the reporter who nailed Trump in Helsinki. And here he is again.

Stand up for our watchdog press.