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Aug 16, 2018, 9 tweets

Here's video of full Trump quote on Aretha Franklin: "I want to begin today by expressing my condolences to the family of a person I knew well. She worked for me on numerous occasions. She was terrific. Aretha Franklin, on her passing. She's brought joy to millions of lives."

TRUMP on wildfires in CA: "There are things you can do about those fires before they start, & you wouldn't have nearly the damage & the problems. We are spending a fortune in California because of poor maintenance & b/c frankly, they are sending a lot of water out to the Pacific"

TRUMP on California wildfires: "It is not a global warming thing. It is a management situation."

TRUMP on the FixNICS bill: "A lot of people didn't want to report on that, because probably it was too good to report about." #wut

TRUMP blames mental illness, not availability of guns, for the Parkland school shooting: "In Florida, there were a lot of red flags. I guess they said there were 28 to 38 red flags, where everybody knew this was a sick person, and nobody did anything about it."

TRUMP says this, without any irony: "There are some very rich people out there that do nothing, make a lot of money. Very rich people. I don't know who they are, I don't want to know who they are. But they don't like me too much right now."

Check out Trump's body language when Jeff Sessions' starts singing his praises

TRUMP claims China sending fentanyl to the US is "almost a form of warfare." 👀

Trump concludes cabinet meeting by announcing that the administration "is not even talking" to Canada right now because their tariffs are too high, then a White House aids starts *screaming* at reporters to exit the room. Embarrassing.

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