The Washington Post reports:
The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.
But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party’s fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“It’s an interesting journey. It’s called the land of the unknown — who knows? We’ll maybe make a deal. Maybe not. As I say to everybody, are you going to make a deal?” Trump said, according to audio of the FEMA meeting obtained by The Washington Post. “Maybe and maybe not. Who knows?”
I am laughing so goddamn hard at this video of Trump inexplicably putting his water bottle on the floor, and Pence immediately doing the same for no reason whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/qEFPzKClYj
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) June 6, 2018
All the videos of Pence doing the exact same thing as Trump like this are going to make for a pretty hilarious political ad someday https://t.co/V59EBRREf2
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) June 6, 2018
The @NBCNews / @MSNBC social teams just stopped and held an impromptu editorial meeting to discuss just what is happening here, and why…
h/t @frankthorp + https://t.co/jpach1Qp5D pic.twitter.com/k15qr9q4Ta
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) June 6, 2018