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Does Donald Trump Hate His New Job?

In his first extended press conference at the White House, the president railed against his critics and unspooled a series of bitter complaints.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Have you ever had a job you loved, but one where you felt like you’d achieved everything you could? So you looked for a new job, went through a fairly grueling application process, if you do say so yourself, got the offer. Then you started the job, and you hated it. Worse, all the tricks you’d learned in your old job seemed to be pretty much useless in the new one. Did you ever have that experience?

The president of the United States can sympathize.

Donald Trump held the first extended press conference of his presidency on Thursday, and it was . He mused about nuclear war, escalated his feud with the press, continued to dwell on the vote count in.

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