Trump feels sad: 'Being president is more work than in my previous life, I loved my previous life' ( Archived) (8)

Trump says he 'loved his previous life' and 'had so many things going'
'This is more work than in my previous life,' he said. 'I thought it would be easier'
Now he's sad that he can no longer drive by himself or have any privacy
He showed off his election results while performing an interview on Thursday
Trump completes his first 100 days in office on Saturday
By Reuters and James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 23:05 EDT, 27 April 2017 | UPDATED: 18:24 EDT, 28 April 2017

After almost 100 days in office, it seems like the luster has well and truly worn off for Donald Trump.

He's failed to get his healthcare act passed; his travel ban has been stopped at every turn; he's lost a slew of allies to claims of collusion with Russia; his wall isn't any closer to being built and now war with North Korea looks like a real possibility.

So it's little surprise that the president is looking back on his days as a globe-trotting businessman and host of The Apprentice with fondness.

'I loved my previous life. I had so many things going,' Trump admitted Thursday. 'This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier.'

Sad: Donald Trump misses his old life, when he had 'so many things going.' '[Being president] is more work than in my previous life,' he said Thursday. 'I thought it would be easier.'

Although he said he was accustomed to not having privacy in his 'old life,' Trump expressed surprise at how little he had now.

And he made clear he was still getting used to having 24-hour Secret Service protection and its accompanying constraints.

'You're really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can't go anywhere,' he said.

When the president leaves the White House, it is usually in a limousine or an SUV - and only in the back seat.

'I like to drive,' he said. 'I can't drive any more.'

It's a much sadder tone than might be expected of Trump, who spent his time on the stump looking thrilled as he clawed his way to the front of the race, first for Republican ticket, then for president.

Those happy days still seem to be on his mind.

Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.

'Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers,' the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red.

'It´s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us.'

He had copies for each of the three reporters in the room.

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Many aspects of Trump's character have not changed from his days as a wheeler-dealer executive and former celebrity reality show host who worked the phones incessantly.

He frequently turns to outside friends and former business colleagues for advice and positive reinforcement. Senior aides say they are resigned to it.

And he doesn't appear to take criticism well.

After a combative relationship with many news organizations since his election campaign, he decided not to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday.

He felt he had been treated unfairly by the media, but said that he 'would come next year, absolutely.'

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I hope he doesnt resign in the middle of this mess with north Korea. Hes very unstable and that deranged freak in North Korea is a clever monster.

he also said the Trump administration was prepared for a goobermint shutdown...

i say shut it down and keep it that way...

no collect back pay/unemployment,no more planned parenthood baby parts firesales,
no TSA gropers and no life support of any kind for any agencies except for border patrol...

Slyly telling the people that politics is harder than it looks, he's made so many reversals already the next thing will be telling simpletons that reality is complex. Coming from him they might even accept it.