Jim Acosta

I show up.

I give a press conference.

I do my thing where I look around the room like this, like on The Apprentice.

And the fawning New York press corps just sort of asked me questions that helped me sell my products, my shitty Trump wine, my shitty Trump vodka, the planes and so on.

He thought that was going to be how it worked going out on the campaign trail and into the White House.

But if you go out on the campaign trail and you're going to say,

we're gonna ban all Muslims coming into this country, or if you say that all Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, or if you're gonna say that I can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it, the political press is not the New York press, and they're gonna respond differently, and they're gonna start asking hard questions.

There was a press conference in New York,

in May of 2016, where he kind of went off on me.

And he says, oh, you're a real beauty.

I know who you are.

But I think at that moment, he thought this was still kayfabe.

You know what that term is from professional wrestling?

It means it's all pre-coordinated.

That's the term for it in pro wrestling.

I do this, then you do that.

You body slam me.

Here, I throw you under the ropes over there.

My sense of it was he thought all of this was an act.

Now, during the campaign, I will tell you, it did not feel like an act to us.