Trump says he is ‘very stable genius’

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump said he’s a “very stable genius” in an early Saturday tweet, a day after a new book about his first year in the White House claimed that many of his top aides and confidantes consider him unfit to hold office.
“Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames,” Trump said on Twitter.
In that tweet and a subsequent one, Trump added that he’d gone from being a very successful businessman to top TV star “….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!” The comments follow the release of Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire and Fury,” which details dysfunction, chaos and incompetence in the Trump White House — claims the administration has denied.
Wolff said in an interview with NBC that “100 percent of the people around” the president question his intelligence and fitness for office.
Trump, in his tweets, said his detractors including Democrats and the media were shifting from stories about Russian collusion during the 2016 campaign to focusing on his fitness to be president.
“They all say he is like a child,” Wolff told NBC. “What they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It’s all about him.”
“This man does not read, does not listen. He’s like a pinball, just shooting off the sides,”
Wolff added. “They say he’s a moron, an idiot.”
On Thursday, Trump on Twitter called the book “phony” and “full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.”
“It’s absolutely outrageous to make these types of allegations” about Trump’s mental fitness, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Fox News.
They’re “desperate attempts” to attack Trump, she said. “What’s I think is really mentally unstable” is people not seeing the progress the president is making.
Wolff said he stands by everything in his book and has notes and recordings to back it up.
While the president said he never spoke to Wolff for the book, the author said he spoke to Tru-mp both during the campaign and after the inauguration.
“Whether he realised it was an interview or not,” the conversations weren’t off the record, Wolff said.