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TRUMP: Am I going to include who?

QUESTION: Are you going to include the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional --

TRUMP: Well, I would. I tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting?

QUESTION: -- Hispanic Caucus --

TRUMP: Do you want to set up the meeting?

QUESTION: No -- no -- no. I'm not --

TRUMP: Are they friends of yours?

QUESTION: I'm just a reporter.

TRUMP: Well, then(ph) set up the meeting.

QUESTION: I know some of them, but I'm sure they're watching right now.

TRUMP: Let's go set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the Black Caucus. I think it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus. I think it's great. I actually thought I had a meeting with Congressman Cummings and he was all excited. And then he said, well, I can't move, it might be bad for me politically. I can't have that meeting.

I was all set to have the meeting. You know, we called him and called him. And he was all set. I spoke to him on the phone, very nice guy.

QUESTION: I hear he wanted that meeting with you as well.

TRUMP: He wanted it, but we called, called, called and can't make a meeting with him. Every day I walk and say I would like to meet with him because I do want to solve the problem. But he probably was told by Schumer or somebody like that, some other lightweight. He was probably told - he was probably told "don't meet with Trump. It's bad politics."

And that's part of the problem in this country

I recall that exact part of the PC. The BBC would not meet with him obviously for political reasons. Consider during the election, he was passionate about rebuilding the inner cities and their education systems:

TRUMP: Let’s go set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the Black Caucus. I think it’s great, the Congressional Black Caucus. I think it’s great. I actually thought I had a meeting with Congressman Cummings and he was all excited. And then he said, well, I can’t move, it might be bad for me politically. I can’t have that meeting.

I was all set to have the meeting. You know, we called him and called him. And he was all set. I spoke to him on the phone, very nice guy.

QUESTION: I hear he wanted that meeting with you as well.

TRUMP: He wanted it, but we called, called, called and can’t make a meeting with him. Every day I walk and say I would like to meet with him because I do want to solve the problem. But he probably was told by Schumer or somebody like that, some other lightweight. He was probably told - he was probably told “don’t meet with Trump. It’s bad politics.”

How could any logically thinking person not love the honesty and transparency of President Trump? He is like a loving Dad who is not going to let his teenager get away with manipulations and lies. He knows he cannot be his teen’s friend because the future is at stake. However, he loves even through the discipline and, actually, the teen knows that because it shows. How refreshing to have a leader willing to risk it all for his country..A leader who is not obliged to do back room deals to survive in office and to be willing to take the outrageous abuse he has taken without flinching. Even down to having those whose practice every narcissistic trait in the book, charge that he has mental problems. I spent a year treating people with mental problems from the mildest to the most severe and this man is as sane as anyone you could ever know. Some in the media have compared our President to Hitler. Do they not know that Hitler used the charge of dementia and mental illness to get rid of people he didn’t like? Go for it, media. You are exposing your softs spot day in and day out and America sees it.