Trump feels zero remorse over how the week went, friends and allies say

Over the past week, President Donald Trump has accused his predecessors of not caring enough about fallen soldiers and their families, used his own chief of staff’s dead son as a political weapon, brought a Gold Star widow to tears, and repeatedly attacked a congresswoman for speaking out about it.

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It was a spectacularly-shambolic week for the White House. And Trump has absolutely no regrets about any of it.

“He loved Kelly’s performance yesterday, and considers the issue won,” a White House official told The Daily Beast on Friday.

Aides and Trump confidants paint a picture of a president who, nearing the end of yet another self-inflicted public-relations fiasco, shows zero remorse, even for dragging chief of staff Kelly—who generally does not like talking publicly about his son, a fallen Marine—into the mess.

“Of course not,” one senior Trump aide simply replied when asked if President Trump had shown any sign of regret over the week’s events. The aide added that Trump himself has said he does not believe he had done anything wrong while noting that Kelly was looking more and more “dispirited” as the week went on.

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