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Finally, things cooled and the president continued fielding questions. Also, because Trump can’t stop being Trump, he had some more ammunition left during his press conference, which he totally made about him; he continuously interrupted reporters who were unable to ask their questions and then abruptly told them to sit down.

PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, who is black, asked the president about comments he made late last month during a political rally in which he called himself a nationalist. Alcindor wondered if the president had considered that his words matter and that calling himself such emboldened white nationalists across the country.

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“That’s such a racist question,” Trump said. “I don’t believe that,” ABC 15 reports.

Which is the political equivalent of: “I’m not crying, you’re crying.”

Trump then did what he always does, which is to note that his numbers with African Americans have quadrupled-billioned since taking office and that he can’t be a white nationalist because he’s friends with Jim Brown and Yeezy.

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“I love our country,” Trump added. “You have nationalists, you have globalists. I also love the world. I would love to help the world, but we have to straighten out our country first. But to say, that, what you said, is so insulting to me. It’s a very terrible thing you said.”

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Trump forgot to add: “I’m just fucking with you. Of course I’m a white nationalist. Duh.”