TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump went on offense on Friday [6-15-18] with a withering series of attacks on the F.B.I., congressional Democrats, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Canada’s prime minister, football players, the media, the special counsel and other favorite targets even as he hailed his relations with the leaders of North Korea, China and Russia. After a couple of days out of sight following his trip to Singapore to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, Mr. Trump delivered a blizzard of pointed messages on Twitter, gave an interview to his preferred Fox News show and then engaged in a typically freewheeling encounter with reporters on the White House driveway. Mr. Trump seemed energized by his North Korea trip and a new report excoriating the F.B.I., and portrayed his presidency as a string of unvarnished successes in foreign policy and the economy despite the unfair and even criminal forces arrayed against him. He dismissed any contrary information or questions and blamed any setbacks on his predecessor or the Democratic minorities in Congress. The president seized on the Justice Department inspector general report released Thursday [6-14-18] that sharply criticized the F.B.I. and its former director James B. Comey for their handling of the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The report, he said, exposed what he called ‘the scum on top’ of the F.B.I. as ‘total thieves,’ and he insisted that Peter Strzok, a senior F.B.I. agent who had spoken privately against him, should be fired.”
-Peter Baker and Eileen Sullivan, “Trump, Riding a North Korea High, Unloads on the F.B.I., Comey and Obama,” The New York Times online, June 15, 2018