Trump Is a Psycho, Part 651,234,001

Yesterday, President Donald Trump spoke in front of a gaggle of reporters and made a series of unhinged and outright false claims about his political opponents, the still-anonymous whistleblower, and the news media. 

"Highlights":

 1.) Trump says that the whistleblower should be exposed and the whistleblower’s lawyer “sued for treason.” The president continued calling for the public release of the whistleblower’s name, which would be against the law, before serving up a particularly weird attack on Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower. According to PBS News’ Yamiche Alcindor, the president said Zaid should be sued “maybe for treason.”

 2.) Trump says he might endorse Jeff Sessions after all because the former attorney general said “very nice things” about him in his campaign launch video. Even though the president still reportedly loathes Sessions for not doing enough to block special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, he said on Friday that he might be open to endorsing him in the Alabama Senate race next year. “I saw he said very nice things about me last night,” Trump said of Sessions. “But we’ll have to see.”

 3.) Trump says he doesn’t know the man whom he appointed to be America’s ambassador to the European Union. American EU ambassador Gordon Sondland testified this week that he told Ukrainian officials that military aid to their country would not be released unless they agreed to launch investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden. When asked about this by a reporter, Trump began by saying, “I hardly know the gentleman.” Other witnesses have testified that Sondland was regularly in contact with Trump this year, however, and Trump called Sondland “a really good man and great American” just one month ago.

4.) Trump melted down and kept yelling, “Quiet!” at a reporter. While the president was trying to accuse former Vice President Joe Biden of corruption, a reporter interrupted him with a question, which made Trump visibly angry.  “Be quiet,” Trump said. “Be quiet! Quiet! Quiet!”

 5.) Trump stuns reporters by saying he might attend Russia’s May Day military parade. Trump revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited him to attend next year’s May Day Parade in Moscow. “President Putin invited me to the — it’s a very big deal!” he said. “Celebrating the end of the war, etc., etc. A very big deal. So I appreciate the invitation… I would love to go if I could.”