Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often. I was very — I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often.
— President Donald Trump, telling Time that he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett because they have ruled against him “too often,” according to Reuters. Although Trump acknowledged that he likes loyalty, he insisted that he doesn’t expect it from the justices: “I want good decisions,” he said. Of course, his definition of a good decision seems to be one that gives him what he wants.
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