‘When you put this guy in a cage and think you’re controlling him, things like this happen’
He likes to watch cable television news shows with other people, sometimes only through the phone.
.. After each answer, he made eye contact with a reporter, as if to say, “Gimme another!”
.. At both media availabilities, which had been billed as “sprays,” an official term for photo opportunities, Trump’s new chief of staff, John F. Kelly, was relegated to merely watching the spectacle.
.. “This is what General Kelly will learn very quickly, which is when you put this guy in a cage and think you’re controlling him, things like this happen,” said one Trump confidant, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
.. “President Trump is a performance artist and he loves being on stage. . . . He was very much Trump unshackled and unfettered and reveling in this moment,” said O’Brien, author of the 2005 book “Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald.”