president to talk about his financials. but you say you know about the president and his coughing thing. yeah. this is apparently a tic. i had a campaign staffer who when he was being onboarded in 2016 texted me last night flagging the tweet underscoring this peculiar moment in the abc news transcript that the president shooed mulvaney out of the room and the staffer tweeted me he was warned not to cough in the presence of the president no matter the cost. go into another room. you would really never recover if you did make that fatal error. we know the president is a germo phobe and we know how much media and appearances and perceptions matter to him so any sign of imperfection, perhaps a cough, that would throw the shot off, the president, you know, built his career on being star of the apprentice and is very attuned to these things. i think that in tandem with his germophobic tendencies coughing is just a nonstarter for this