WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump did an Oval Office interview with Associated Press reporter Julie Pace to discuss his first 100 days in office. He made some news, offering praise of far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and promising to act soon on tax reform. The interview is most notable, though, for its immense weirdness. The extended transcript, which was published on Sunday, is surreal — replete with lies, exaggerations, non-sequiturs and rambling asides. The complete list of every false thing Donald Trump has said as presidentFor your reading pleasure, or perhaps reading alarm, we have compiled the 19 strangest parts. The full transcript follows.1. Trump remembers and then immediately forgets how many missiles he fired at Syria: “When it came time to, as an example, send out the 59 missiles, the Tomahawks in Syria. I’m saying to myself, ‘You know, this is more than just like, 79 missiles. This is death that’s involved,’” he said.2. Trump talks about watching CNN, then boasts of not watching CNN: Trump, a renowned television addict, explained to Pace that he never thought he had “the ability” to do what he said he had done: stop watching CNN, a network he says is unfair to him. But Pace pointed out that he had just talked, in this same interview, about watching CNN. (Those remarks aren’t in the transcript; Pace says they came during an off-the-record portion.) “Where? Where?” Trump asked. “Two minutes ago,” Pace informed him. Trump’s bewildering response: “No, they treat me so badly. No, I just said that. No, I, what’d I say, I stopped watching them. But I don’t watch CNN anymore.”3. Trump says he doesn’t talk to European leaders about the Iran deal, then that he did: Trump continued to gripe about the Iran nuclear deal the U.S. and other world powers struck with Iran during the tenure of B ...
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