minister nasty for calling his interest in buying greenland absurd. the president zigzagged on guns and background checks and flip flopped on the economy saying he s not looking a tax cut the day after suggesting he was. i ll be speaking with congressman mike quigley who is on the intelligence committee and our correspondents and analysts have full coverage of the day s top stories. let s begin with cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta. and jim, the president seems to have anointed himself today. reporter: that is certainly right. the president sounded as though he had something of a god complex at times today. declaring himself the chosen one and accepting praise from an ally who dubbed mr. trump on twitter as the second coming. but the president wasn t so charitable when he doubled down on how he feels jewish americans should vote against democrats and describing the prime minister of denmark as nasty for rejecting his advances on greenland. there were times when he sound
one of them was moving the embassy to jerusalem, making jerusalem the capital of israel. reporter: mr. trump shifted on the topic of tightening background checks after sources told cnn he all but assured the nra president wayne la pierre he was siding with the powerful gun lobby. we re going to be doing background checks. we re working with democrats, we re working with republicans. we already have very strong background checks but we re going to be throwing in some of the loopholes we just talked about concepts. wayne agrees things have to be done also. reporter: the president got testy in defendsing his decision to scrapping the trip to denmark after they rejected his expansionist designs on greenland as absurd. i thought that the prime minister s statement that it was absurd that it was an absurd idea was nasty. i thought it was an inappropriate statement. all she had to do was say no we wouldn t be interesting, don t
back in so that could create tension between the two leaders who are hoping to start off a good foot. he s dising denmark, blaming the danish prime minister for saying that his possible purchase, sort of inquiry, curiosity about purchasing greenland was absurd. but it is important to point out denmark is an important ally of the u.s. exactly right. so president trump canceled this trip via tweet to denmark because the prime minister as you said called it absurd that the president wanted to buy greenland. but the important thing here is that both danish officials and folks who live there are feeling a little bit like they ve been treated unfairly here. because they have stood next to the u.s. for years. especially when it comes to national security. the u.s. has been allowed to use strategic bases in greenland since the cold war that allows the u.s. to listen in on russia and other things across the
president. we ve never seen anything like that for an incumbents president and it is the precise measurement of the cost he s paying even a very good economy for all of the behavior that shatters the norms of the way presidents comport themselves. what did you think, nia, when he canceled the trip to denmark and called the female prime minister comments about him nasty. the canceling and the reason for canceling over his wanting to talk to the prime minister about a sale the sale of greenland, it seems like an onion headline but apparently that was the reason. he goes back to this comment saying that she s nasty which is a family putdown that the president uses for women that he doesn t like. he used it against hillary clinton. i mean she was i thought very diplomatic in handling this and essentially saying this is an absurd idea, the sale of greenland.