Trump: 'I Had Cabin Fever In The White House'
- 5 years ago
President Trump on Saturday delivered remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
President Trump has admitted he had "cabin fever in the White House" during the holidays when the government was partially shutdown and he decided to stay in Washington, D.C.
Trump said during his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday: "I stayed in the White House for months and months because I wanted the Democrats to get back from their vacations from Hawaii and these other places. And I figured it would look good if I stayed in the White House so that you people all love me and vote for me. Okay?"
That comment was a jab at current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who faced backlash for vacationing in Hawaii during the shutdown.
The president continued telling the CPAC crowd: "I figured it would look good. So I stayed in the White House and...I told my wife, 'Go to Florida. Enjoy your Christmas.' I stayed for Thanksgiving...I was in the White House for a long time--months, months. I had cabin fever in the White House. But if you've got to have cabin fever, that's the place to do it. But I was there--I don't know--for a number of months through Christmas. I spent my New Years all by myself."
"It was me and about five hundred men and women outside with machine guns," Trump further noted. "I never saw so many beautiful looking machine guns."
His remarks were not the first time he has lamented spending the holiday by himself.
On Christmas Eve, he tweeted: "I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!"
President Trump has admitted he had "cabin fever in the White House" during the holidays when the government was partially shutdown and he decided to stay in Washington, D.C.
Trump said during his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday: "I stayed in the White House for months and months because I wanted the Democrats to get back from their vacations from Hawaii and these other places. And I figured it would look good if I stayed in the White House so that you people all love me and vote for me. Okay?"
That comment was a jab at current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who faced backlash for vacationing in Hawaii during the shutdown.
The president continued telling the CPAC crowd: "I figured it would look good. So I stayed in the White House and...I told my wife, 'Go to Florida. Enjoy your Christmas.' I stayed for Thanksgiving...I was in the White House for a long time--months, months. I had cabin fever in the White House. But if you've got to have cabin fever, that's the place to do it. But I was there--I don't know--for a number of months through Christmas. I spent my New Years all by myself."
"It was me and about five hundred men and women outside with machine guns," Trump further noted. "I never saw so many beautiful looking machine guns."
His remarks were not the first time he has lamented spending the holiday by himself.
On Christmas Eve, he tweeted: "I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. At some point the Democrats not wanting to make a deal will cost our Country more money than the Border Wall we are all talking about. Crazy!"