Trump On Neil Gorsuch: “Every 5-To-4 Decision Is Because Of Me And That Could Go On For 40 Years”

The Washington Examiner today published a lengthy interview with Trump. An excerpt:

He promises, as he did during the campaign, to get rid “of tremendous regulations,” to help American companies compete more easily in the world market and to put more of America’s citizens back to work.

That leads, naturally, to an assessment of his own work in his first 100 days, which is, predictably, that no president “has ever done what I have done” even though “the first-hundred-day standard is ridiculous.”

“Well, I think that the Supreme Court is very important,” he explains, “because every 5-to-4 decision is because of me. And that could go on for 40 years,” since his first appointment to the court, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, “is a young man” at age 49.

“Don’t forget, I got him nominated and confirmed in those 100 days,” he adds, not willing to give up the 100-day argument quite yet.