Nine hours after he’d landed at the new helipad on the South Lawn that he can’t stop gushing about —after a multi-day campaign swing through mostly safe Republican states that he should not have to rally support in — Donald Trump told a hand-picked group of first responders gathered in the Rose Garden that he was “supposed to be sleeping now.”
The attendees had come to the luncheon with the expectation of seeing Trump speak, but both they and he might have been better off if he’d decided to shut his eyes and stay in bed.