Trump: I'm in the office early, leave late, fantastic poll numbers, I'm really enjoying it

[Miles Archer]

“I’m not under investigation, as you know,” Trump said. (Trump’s own chief of staff John Kelly on Monday conceded it’s “very distracting to the president, as it would be to any citizen, to be investigated”).

Referencing the 12-count indictment of Manafort and Manafort’s debut Rick Gates stemming from Mueller’s investigation, Trump added, “even if you look at that, there’s not even a mention of Trump in there.”

“It has nothing to do with us,” he said.

Turning to his personal assessment of his job as president, Trump told the Times he “just got fantastic poll numbers,” later adding he’s “in the office early and leave late; it’s very smooth.”

“Honestly, I’m really enjoying it,” he asserted.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/im-actually-not-angry-at-anybody-trump-assures-reporters-hes-honestly-really-enjoying-being-president/

[HipChick]

1. Reporter on this is Maggie Haberman ....

Sounds like fiction...damage control

[jrthin]

3. Maggie Haberman, 2017 version of Judith Miller. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

7. But wasn't Miller a hawk at her core?

Haberman just wants Trump to be nice to her. He's attacked her publicly time and time again. He's even mocked her appearance. And yet she keeps trying.

[gratuitous]

17. Haberman's also got some Elisabeth Bumiller working for her, too

If you don't remember Elisabeth Bumiller, she had a weekly report on the Bush White House every Monday in the New York Times. Bumiller's weekly filing was such an unrelentingly wet, sloppy valentine to the Bush administration, you felt like you'd just walked past your parents' open bedroom door while they were going at it. You wanted to tell her to just rent a room or something. Ish.

[jrthin]

20. rYou're right. I remember how embarrassed and disgusted

it was to read her articles.

[janx]

12. Original source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/trump-russia-charges.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker. Haberman gets a bad rap around here. You have to read between her lines. She is pointing out the obvious, as she often does.

[Sneederbunk]

2. If your poll numbers were TV ratings, your administration would be cancelled.

[smirkymonkey]

9. +1000

[Wounded Bear]

13. Working on it...

[Brother Buzz]

4. The orange one is the perfect reverse barometer

Sad!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. ......

[Shrike47]

6. I wonder what poll he was referring to.

I wish she's asked.

[uponit7771]

8. The FAUX And Friends 5 person poll

[smirkymonkey]

10. He's either totally in denial or he's even dumber than I thought.

[teamster633]

11. No reason it can't be both...

[loyalsister]

14. Trump's last job was all about creating a false reality

There is no reason to not expect him to try to bring it with him. Particularly when he is in a role where he is accountable to others probably for the first time ever.

[GreenEyedLefty]

15. Translation:

"I'm under investigation. The indictments have my name all over them. It has everything to do with us. I have shitty poll numbers. I'm in the office late, leave early, it's very rough. Honestly, I'm really not enjoying it."

[Freethinker65]

16. He forgot to add believe me

[MyOwnPeace]

18. "I'm in early - I leave late"

Are we talking tee times (and there are SO many!)?

[underpants]

19. He lives in the same house as he works

To Trump he probably thinks being there is being at work.

[Gothmog]

21. What fantastic poll numbers?

Denial run deep here

[bobbieinok]

22. Recent youtube videos of Jim Bakker show push this claim

They are amazed at 'how incredibly hard he works. The believers must pray for God's protection of him as satanic, demonic liberals and Obama/HRC constantly attack him.'