Video: From disaster response to the economy, President Trump gives himself and his administration high marks, most of the time.(Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
During his campaign, President Trump boasted that he would "surround myself only with the best." But by his own account, his administration attracts rather the opposite.
In the same speech, Trump discredited departing Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein by saying the Trump-appointed official, whom the president accused last month of “planning a very illegal act,” had “never received a single vote.”
Last week, Trump said that soon-to-be-jailed Michael Cohen, once a "good person" and Trump's personal attorney, had not only turned out to be a "failed lawyer" and a liar but was, by testifying to Congress about Trump, also partially to blame for the breakdown of nuclear talks with North Korea.