President Trump began his weekend with a flurry of tweets defending his own mental stability and slamming author Michael Wolff's White House tell-all book Fire and Fury. After calling Wolff a "total loser" and slamming his controversial book, in which he reports that members of Trump's team have said the president acts like a "child" who needs instant gratification, Trump went on to tout his own genius.
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