powerful nature of this man who had come to see him on a business matter. but he also sort of randomly and without needing to, he went out of his way to give his own donald trump public endorsement to this man in front of the assembled national press corps. it seems clear from the way he handled that moment, he didn't even know the guy's name. you could see him reading the guy's name off a note card, even reading it off the note card, he still gets the guy's name wrong. in such a circumstance, why would you call that person a great man, as he did? he said, this is a great man. why would you give that kind of endorsement when you don't even know the guy's name well enough to read it correctly off a piece of paper? why make that sort of public endorsement when you apparently really have no idea about even the very basic background of this famously corrupt person who's standing beside you. but that was trump as a candidate, and now we've got trump as president. which brought us national