BTW, Trump is proud of that press conference today

“Schiff, House Intel Chairman, Got Early Account of Whistle-Blower’s Accusations”

SCHIFF IS A FRAUD! https://t.co/BNXiq5dsXg pic.twitter.com/PHdh8PBTGb

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2019

Of course he is.  And of course, he picks out Schiff to attack one more time (although what the problem is with the Chair of the Intelligence Committee being contacted by a CIA employee with information about national security, is beyond me.  Except Trump thinks "national security" means "Trump's security," and nothing else.)

Not everyone else was as impressed:

“President Donald Trump, lying to the American people — and the world — at a pace perhaps we haven’t seen before,” Ali Velshi reported.

“Just in the course of the five minutes since I’ve been sitting in this chair, the president uttered several lies including the fact that the United States has provided more to Ukraine than European countries, the Ukraine is the most corrupt nation in the world, there have been no presidential victories on trade prior to his arrival,” he noted. “And he was corrected by Jeff Mason reminding him that a current WTO ruling that was issued today is actually the subject of many years of effort by the United States, none of which — virtually none of which — involved Donald Trump.”

Nicole Wallace:

“I was going to do this later in the show, but this has become our thing. I have to fact-check that BS — to borrow your word, Mr. President — about the whistleblower complaint,” she said.

“So, for everything the president’s saying about his July 25th phone call, that it’s perfect and whatnot, that it was a perfect call and anyone who has a problem with it has been misled by Adam Schiff and the whistleblower. Let’s stop with that,” she said. “That’s nonsense.”

“That’s the big lie because Trump, the White House, and Rudy Giuliani have now corroborated almost all of the whistleblower complaint,” she explained. “The whistleblower and this complaint can disappear because this is what’s been corroborated: The president pressured Mr. Zelensky to initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former vice president Joe Biden and his son. The White House released records that say this.”

“They have coughed up confessions to everything in the whistleblower complaint,” Wallace concluded. 

But it was all "beautiful," and since it wasn't, it's got to be the fault of the audience, not of the performer!  Don't take my word for it:

In an interview with ABC News, Pelosi said that she heard “surprise in his voice that he didn’t understand that I thought what he did was wrong.”


“I think one of the things that is true in there is that Pelosi believes that President Trump, when she talked to him a week ago yesterday, that he didn’t understand that what he had done was not perfect, that actually could be perceived by many people as wrong even though it seemed as of today based on his refusal to answer questions about it, he now is starting to get it maybe,” said Tapper.
....
“When the president made that phone call to Nancy Pelosi, he said it was about guns and I don’t think she thought it was about guns or did the aides that I spoke with, and it turns to this,” Collins explained. “Essentially, what was communicated — to me by sources is the president thought he could get on the phone with her and change Nancy Pelosi’s mind. Which is interesting if you watch her the past few months because it is clear she was headed this way and so when they had that phone call, she walks away from it and thinks that essentially he didn’t think she was actually going to do this. He didn’t actually think that she was going to take this step. So, it is interesting to see how she’s portraying that call now, saying, he was scared about what was going to happen. Because I think he was genuinely surprised that she thinks there was something wrong with what he said during the phone call. And that’s why you’ve heard them say they launched this inquiry before we released the transcript.”

In other words:  he really is that stupid.