If he wasn’t such a dumbass he would have said “I have called this meeting to announce that I intend to ask the congress to authorize use of force”
Not-
“I can do this if I want to but I wont because I’m gonna ask for permission first. Not because I have to, but because I decided to. I can really do this myself if I wanna. But I wont. So nyahhhh btptpttthpth”
His intro made me angry right off the bat. “Everybody?” How about ladies and gentlemen. Everybody? Sounds like a teenager making his first speech in class.