This week for Donald Trump: not the greatest. He didn’t love it
Well, he told the media he was having fun — but his cabinet-building has hit snags, Ford gave him the finger and a sailor turned him down
While US President Donald Trump rails against the media, he made a major concession in his pick for labour secretary — and got turned down by his choice to replace his top security adviser. Oh, and Ford has made a U-turn on its U-turn on its plans to build new factories in Mexico. The media Trump insisted there was "zero chaos" in his crisis-buffeted White House and railed against enemies in the media, politics and the courts on Thursday, in a meandering first solo news conference. The US president vented frustrations, insisted he was "not a bad person" and wondered out loud about a "nuclear holocaust", in a remarkable one hour, 16 minute ask-me-anything appearance. Russia Trump dismissed a growing controversy about ties between his aides and Russia as a "ruse" and a "scam" perpetrated by the hostile news media, and denied any of his associates had contacts with Moscow before last year’s election. US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, at Nato headquarters in Brussels, said he did not see...
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