Trump’s no-holds-barred interview

In a strange, sometimes rambling interaction with AP ahead of completing 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump said some baffling things. Here are eight gems:

I never realised how big (the presidency) was... So you know, I really just see the bigness of it all — on his new responsibilities When it came time to, as an example, send out the 59 missiles, the Tomahawks in Syria. I'm saying to myself, 'You know, this is more than just like 79 (sic) missiles.' — on how being commander-in-chief brings with it a "human responsibility" This is a very tough environment. Not caused necessarily by me. —on how his team doesn't get credit for work in a high-pressure setting I'm 10-0 for that. I've called every one of them. Every time they said I called it way too early and then it turns out I'm ... whatever. — on how he has been proved right to declare incidents as terror attacks before the police had released details or before confirmation from investigative authorities I don't talk to them about it .... I mention it, but it's very personal when I talk to them,

you know, it's confidential. - on whether he talks to European leaders about the Iran nuclear deal. France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China helped craft the deal With the Italian prime minister yesterday, you saw, we were joking, "Come on, you have to pay up, you have to pay up."

He'll pay. —on the bonhomie between him and world leaders, and how he'll make them pay for Nato I don’t watch CNN anymore. —two minutes after he told the interviewer that he watches CNN and criticised its coverage

"I THINK THE 100 DAYS IS AN ARTIFICIAL BARRIER. IT'S NOT VERY MEANINGFUL." — on how he's fared in the first 100 days in office. During his election campaign, Trump himself released a 100-day action plan, calling it a "contract between myself and the...