Trump rallies in Michigan, talks Korea, Congress, Kanye


President Trump skipped the White House Correspondents' Dinner for a campaign-style rally in Washington, Michigan, Saturday evening. "Is this better than that phony Washington White House correspondents thing? Is this more fun?" he asked his approving audience.
Trump's talk hit on familiar themes: the need to maintain GOP control of Congress ("We gotta go out, and we gotta fight like hell"); former FBI Director James Comey ("a liar and a leaker"); immigration ("We have the worst laws anywhere in the world"); and Kanye West ("He gets it").
The president spoke hopefully of further progress toward peace with North Korea, and the crowd chanted "Nobel!" in response, referencing the Nobel Peace Prize. "I had one of the fake news groups this morning. They were saying, 'What do you think President Trump had to do with [North Korea's pledge to work toward denuclearization]?'" Trump said. "I'll tell you what. Like, how about everything?"
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On Twitter Sunday morning, Trump dubbed the night a win:
Watch Trump's full speech below. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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