DEMS/POLITICAL FIGURES/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday [3-11-18] defended President Donald Trump’s new comments about Rep. Maxine Waters, saying he ‘likes making funny names. During Saturday night’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump dismissed the California Democrat as a ‘very low-IQ individual.’ … ‘I’ve been with the president and at campaigns. You know, he likes to put names on people,’ the Treasury secretary said. ‘He did that through the entire presidential election, including all of the Republicans that he beat. … These are campaign rally issues.’ The media shouldn’t dismiss everything Trump says at campaign rallies, Mnuchin said, but they should spend more time focused on the administration’s policies. … Mnuchin was interviewed by Chuck Todd, whom the president attacked by name during Saturday’s rally as ‘a sleeping son of a bitch.'”
– Aubree Eliza Weaver, “Mnuchin defends Trump’s name-calling,” Politico, Mar. 11, 2018 11:58am