Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a on a Friday the 13th after Trump spent his day giving friendly interviews and hiding out from the real press amid the blockbuster Nvidia scandal.
Let’s get ready for the weekend with some JAMM!
Friendly Fire: Leading off, Trump avoided public events again on Thursday after a rough Veterans Day, but he taped interviews with pals Hugh Hewitt and outspoken sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, which led to the surreal scene of Smith taking questions at the White House.
During that scrum, he conspicuously called BS on Trump’s favorite loser coping mechanism, that “I wasn’t on the ballot.”
You know, he says a lot of things, honestly. He’s not somebody that considers himself to have been on the ballot. To me, that was inconsistent with what he had been saying, talking about people putting him on the ballot. That was a request that he made to the American people out there.
Smith was asked about the prospect of being offered the job as Trump’s press secretary; here’s what he said.
REPORTER: What about the press secretary role? Did you discuss that?
STEPHEN A. SMITH: No. No, not at all.
REPORTER: Did he offer you it?
STEPHEN A. SMITH: No way in hell!
Honestly, could he be any worse than Katy Zacharia? We’ll never know.
During the interview, Smith did a good job of pressing Trump on the midterms, and instigated this bit of self-care when he brought up Trump’s deadly approval ratings.
It’s almost sad to watch him delude himself. You can see the full interview here, and the transcript here.
Hugh Got It: Trump also taped a lengthy interview with conservative radio star Hugh Hewitt, during which he blurted out “I’m genetically blessed!”
If that’s the blessing, I’d hate to see the curse!
During the same riff, Trump brought up Jensen Huang and called the situation “SAD,” but Hewitt had a different take — that Trump’s embattled pal has given him quote “leverage” with Xi.
This just a week after Trump said he would bring the compromised CEO along with him for diplomatic talks with China, and months after he and his officials were warned about Huang. Just incredible.
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