Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Monday morning after Trump got bombarded with bad news, then took it out on the campaign trail with him.
Bad Report Card: Friday was jobs report day, and it didn’t go great. Even Fox couldn’t shine up a lower-than-expected September jobs report that wound up in negative territory after revisions and saw an uptick in the unemployment rate.
How brutal was the coverage of the last jobs report before the midterms?
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark!
Weekend Warrior: Trump already knew he was in trouble, that’s why he hit the campaign trail this weekend instead of just playing golf and shitposting whatever Natalie Harp fed him.
Impachy-Keen: But the strain was showing even as he took questions from reporters on the way out of town Friday. He was confronted about being impeached if Democrats win.
Well, look, it’s a fake impeachment. And we could’ve done that with Sleepy Joe, but we didn’t do it because it would’ve been inappropriate. I could’ve done that with Hillary Clinton, as you know. I had the chance to do it if I wanted, and I said that would be inappropriate, but with me, they like to do it, so.
Fact-check: Hillary Clinton didn’t commit crimes. You did!
Wandering Off: Then, in the middle of an answer about campaigning for the midterms, Trump suddenly veered off into a riff about his renovations, which he now claims are winning “awards?”
I’m not running, but I’m saying, “Pretend I’m running.” We wanna pretend I’m running. I hope you like what you see here. That’s getting all sorts of awards, and the best of all, do you see the new crane, the red, the red boom? That’s one of the biggest cranes in the world that lift up the steel for the roof. Pretty cool, right?
Bully Pulpit: It wouldn’t be a Trump gaggle without threatening our allies. This time, it was South Korea.
Of Course: And he weighed in on the Cornell rape case again, saying he feels quote “very bad for” the suspects now that AG Letitia James is on the case.
Reporter: Mr. President, what do you think about the New York governor appointing a special prosecutor in the Cornell rape case, Letitia James?
Donald Trump: Well, Letitia James is a corrupt person. She’s totally corrupt, and I can’t imagine it, and I feel badly for whoever she’s looking at because they won’t get a fair shake.
Dozin’ Don Says What: But the quote of the weekend comes from whichever suck-up chimed in to say that quote “people believe you never get tired,” and got this hilarious response.
Reporter: Mr. President, people believe you never get tired.
Donald Trump: I never get tired.
Reporter: And, Mr. President, what will be —
Donald Trump: If I got tired, it would be a big story, I can tell you.
I’m sorry, we have a Mister Sandman on the line, he would like a word.
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‘Bama Blues: Then it was off to Alabama, where Trump performed some self-care by speaking to a crowd in a deep-red area.
EW: Trump immediately made it weird
