Donald Trump doesn't want to work with Congress: 'Let me just do it by myself'
For those of you who were concerned about Donald Trump's revelation back in March that he counts himself and his "very good brain" as No. 1 among his top foreign policy advisers, fret not: His very good brain is ready to handle the entire presidency unilaterally.
Speaking during a rally in Atlanta, Trump fretted that he might "be forced to" handle the presidency all alone, due to the weakness and incompetence of the Republican elected leadership:
So much for the whole "stop executive overreach" thing.
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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.