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Trump Gets Two Scoops of Ice Cream, Everyone else Gets One

川普吃兩球冰淇淋，賓客只吃到一球


President Donald Trump is living every child's dream: More ice cream.

According to an extensive interview with TIME Magazine, Trump's White House st
aff has settled into Trump's routine and know his desires, sometimes before he
 does,

For example: Trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate creampie,
TIME reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one.

白宮管家透露，川普每次都吃兩球冰淇淋，其他人只吃一球！

In the interview published Thursday, Trump also expanded on his view of Russia
n hacking during the 2016 election, refuted reports that he is unhappy with hi
s current national security adviser and took a level of blame for his combativ
e administration.

But, more than anything, Trump gave TIME a window into some of the oddities th
at make his White House unlike any in modern history, including the traits tha
t make Trump tick.

Here are some illuminating takeaways from the interview:

Business at any cost

Trump casts himself throughout the interview as America's businessman, someone
 who is bringing his private-sector savvy to the White House to spur growth an
d create jobs. That focus extends to faulty digital launching systems on aircr
aft carriers -- "Time and material means you're going to get your ass kicked"
-- to arms deals with unlikely African leaders.

TIME reported that Trump brought up how he is trying to mint an arms deal with
 an African leader who has decades-old human rights concerns, all in the name
of spurring American business. Trump declined to name the country.

'It could be my fault'

Trump rarely takes blame, and throughout the 2016 campaign he said he rarely,
if ever, apologizes.

But during his interview with TIME, Trump took responsibility -- sort of -- fo
r the combative tone of his administration.

"It could be my fault," he said. "I don't want to necessarily blame, but there
's a great meanness out there that I'm surprised at."

(CNN) President Donald Trump is living every child's dream: More ice cream.

According to an extensive interview with TIME Magazine, Trump's White House st
aff has settled into Trump's routine and know his desires, sometimes before he
 does,

For example: Trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate cream pie,
 TIME reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one.


In the interview published Thursday, Trump also expanded on his view of Russia
n hacking during the 2016 election, refuted reports that he is unhappy with hi
s current national security adviser and took a level of blame for his combativ
e administration.

But, more than anything, Trump gave TIME a window into some of the oddities th
at make his White House unlike any in modern history, including the traits tha
t make Trump tick.

Here are some illuminating takeaways from the interview:

Business at any cost

Trump casts himself throughout the interview as America's businessman, someone
 who is bringing his private-sector savvy to the White House to spur growth an
d create jobs. That focus extends to faulty digital launching systems on aircr
aft carriers -- "Time and material means you're going to get your ass kicked"
-- to arms deals with unlikely African leaders.

TIME reported that Trump brought up how he is trying to mint an arms deal with
 an African leader who has decades-old human rights concerns, all in the name
of spurring American business. Trump declined to name the country.

'It could be my fault'

Trump rarely takes blame, and throughout the 2016 campaign he said he rarely,
if ever, apologizes.

But during his interview with TIME, Trump took responsibility -- sort of -- fo
r the combative tone of his administration.

"It could be my fault," he said. "I don't want to necessarily blame, but there
's a great meanness out there that I'm surprised at."


It's not an admission, but it's a close as Trump usually gets.

"I fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong," Trump
told Jimmy Fallon in September 2015. "I will absolutely apologize sometime in
the distant future if I'm ever wrong."

A level of introspection

Trump, carrying on the tenor of his vicious 2016 campaign, has made Washington
 a more acrimonious place. Democrats, appalled by his victory, have grown more
 fearful, more vocal and more disgusted. Trump has kept his foot on the gas, t
oo, with near constant combative tweets.

But doing the TIME interview, as their dinner was wrapping up, Trump appeared
to have a moment of introspection.

"It never made sense to me, the level of animosity," Trump said. "All you want
 to do is, like, let's have a great military. Let's have low taxes. Let's have
 good health care. Let's have good education."

Trump, notably, at times during the 2016 campaign demeaned his primary and gen
eral election opponents' spouses and attacked a Gold Star family. More recentl
y, he cast the entire media as the "enemy of the state."

'Choke like dogs'

Can Trump lament acrimony in Washington? Yes. But he also can elevate with sev
en-word sentence.

Watching clips of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and f
ormer acting Attorney General Sally Yates' recent Senate testimony, Trump comp
ared to the longtime government officials to dogs.

"Watch them start to choke like dogs," Trump said after Sen. Chuck Grassley, a
n Iowa Republican, asked whether official asked for names of Trump or his asso
ciates be revealed in an intelligence report. "Watch what happens. They are de
sperate for breath."

"Ah, he's choking. Ah, look," Trump said after Clapper declined to provide nam
es.

"So they surveilled me," he added. "You guys don't write that -- wiretapped in
 quotes. They surveilled me."

CNN's Allie Malloy contributed to this report.


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