The White House wants you to know that the person currently occupying the Oval Office is indeed a very stable genius who never ever loses the thread of a conversation about the most pressing issues of the day. So when they release transcripts of those conversations, they are now leaving out the dotard-y parts. Here's what they left out of the transcript of Tuesday's big summit on immigration.
During the meeting on Tuesday, Trump was asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) if he would support "a clean DACA bill."
"Yeah, I would like to do it," Trump said during the meeting, according to The Washington Post.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) then told the president he needed to be "clear."
“I think what Senator Feinstein is asking here — when we talk about just DACA, we don’t want to be back here two years later. You have to have security," McCarthy said during the meeting.
The White House's official transcript did not include the line from Trump, saying: "Yeah, I would like to do it."
The conversation took place with cameras rolling. Trump absolutely endorsed Feinstein's "clean DACA bill." And when the transcript was released later in the day, the "Yeah, I would like to do it" was missing. When asked about the glaring omission, the White House "said that any omission from the transcript was unintentional and that the context of the conversation was clear." Uh-huh. The White House did release a "corrected" version of the transcript, since pretty much everyone with eyes and ears who saw it happen in real time and it wasn’t helping their case much on the whole mental stability and acuity of the president.
And to put a fine point on it, somebody commandeered the First Phone and tried to do some after-the-fact clean up.
Very clear, right?
