Chris Cillizza on Trump’s Tweets: He Is Putting out Facts that Are Not Factual

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CILLIZZA: "He is watching shows which he says he doesn’t watch usually and he is reacting to interviews and things he sees on them. He is also putting out facts that he sees on them that are not factual. To Gloria’s point, anything that confirms his already existing world view, he will leap on it. Remember the Philippines, the robbery he described as a terrorist attack because it fit the Donald Trump world view narrative that this would be a terrorist attack and we need to stop these people. So, the illusion of something happened in London and is being investigated as a terrorist attack, 'See, I was right, the travel ban.' It's because he wants it to be true. In the same way Gloria mentioned Charlottesville and in the same way he doesn’t, as we know from yesterday, want the Charlottesville thing to be white supremacists and neo-Nazis who were responsible for this. This is not a both sides did it thing. He doesn’t want that to be true, it doesn't fit into how he sees the world and therefore he will 'wait for the facts.'"