Trump says he misses life before office

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sounded wistful as he reflected on his first 100 days on the job in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.

“I love my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life,” Trump said. “I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a … I’m a details-oriented person. I think you’d say that, but I do miss my old life. I like to work, so that’s not a problem, but this is actually more work.”

The president made the comments in an interview with Reuters, one of several he did to mark his first 100 days in office. In the interview, president also lamented his loss of privacy, describing life in the White House as being in “your own little cocoon.”

It wasn’t the first time that Trump acknowledged the job is trickier than he anticipated.

In November, NBC News reported that Trump had told former House Speaker Newt Gingrich that “this is really a bigger job than I thought.”

While his Supreme Court nominee won approval, some positions where he pledged fast action during the 2016 campaign, such as immigration, building a border wall with Mexico, dealing with China and repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, have been softened, blocked or delayed.

“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated,” Trump said in February. At another point, he revealed that it took a conversation with the president of China to realize that the situation on the Korean peninsula was “not so easy.”