During President Trump’s press conference this past Thursday, many noteworthy things occurred, some of which were highly inappropriate, unnecessary, and in many cases, false. Firstly, Trump boastfully and falsely claimed that he had received the highest number or electoral votes of any president since Ronald Reagan. When a reporter intervened to correct him, stating that Obama had received a substantially larger number of electoral votes than the sitting president, Trump brushed him off, saying, “Well, I don’t know, I was given that information. I was given — I actually, I've seen that information around.” In this jumbled and largely incoherent response, Trump made it quite obvious that he had no credible evidence to support his previous statement, and regardless of who had “given” him that information, he had done nothing to check its validity.

Shortly after this charade, the president performed a lengthy monologue in which he delegitimized and discredited any and all news sources except that of Fox News. Specifically calling out CNN, Trump insisted that a majority of their reporting related to him was and is fake news and that the “public” has stopped believing them. He then used this topic to remind everyone of the election, that he won, as if people had simply forgotten.

While these declarations and interactions were all trivial and imbecile, what ensued shortly afterwards was quite appalling. After having been asked a question about how he planned to address our nation’s recent rise in anti-semitism, he quickly became annoyed at the reporter for not asking a simple and easy question and naturally went on to talk about how great of a person he is, saying, “So here’s the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person.” After this ridiculously hyperbolic description of himself, he referenced his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was present, and went on to reprimand the obviously Jewish reporter for asking such an “insulting” question.

To follow up on his “least racist person” remark, he not only assumed a black reporter was personal friends with the entire Congressional Black Caucus, but also acted as if she was his secretary, asking her to “set up the meeting” between himself and the CBC. And yes, all of this and more happened in just a little over an hour.