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Speaking in the Oval Office earlier, Trump said Bolton "made some very big mistakes," such as when he spoke of the "Libyan model" for North Korea. That "set us back," he says, given what happened to Gadhafi.
Trump said Bolton was "not necessarily tougher than me." Trump added sarcastically, "He's so tough he got us into Iraq."
Trump said "papers like the Wall Street Journal" "don't have a clue" on trade and China. He asked, "I don't even know -- do these people have any education on anything?"
Trump repeated his old lie that he opposed the Iraq war "from the beginning," and that he was "outspoken about it." As @KFILE has documented, Trump was tentatively supportive in 2002 and early 2003, saying "Yeah, I guess so" when Howard Stern asked in 2002 if he was in favor.
Asked if he'd require background checks on all gun purchases, Trump said, "We're going to take a look at a lot of different things and we'll be reporting back in a very fairly short period of time."
Asked if he told Mulvaney to tell NOAA to disavow the Alabama forecasters' remarks, Trump said no, and that "that's a whole hoax by the fake news media when they talk about the hurricane."
Trump keeps saying Venezuela was one of the world's richest countries 15 years ago. It was not. It was 67th in the world by PPP per capita in 2004, about $4,000 US, per IMF figures.
Trump said "the whole thing with vaping has been very profitable," and he wants profitable companies, but "we can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected. And I'm hearing it." He says Melania Trump feels very strongly about this.
