President Trump says he loves 'setting records' — even negative ones


You might say President Trump is a "glass half-full" kind of guy. While complaining about how slow his Cabinet nominees are being confirmed, Trump suggested that "the only good thing" about the Democrats' pushback is "I'm setting records. I love setting records."
Senate Democrats are on track to vote against more of Trump's nominees — and cast more total votes against them — than any other first-term president in American history, Newsday reports.
And if Trump can't get enough of those records, he might want to check out another one he's broken: the first-month disapproval rating.
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