The Fix's Chris Cillizza explains why President Trump is returning to what worked for him in 2016: Campaigning. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)Many people are saying that President Trump's raw and emotional 77-minute news conference Thursday was a disaster — a display of id totally unshackled from political strategy. For Trump, the news conference was a major triumph and a big part of the reason he loves both politics and being president. Remember that this is the man who made up a young PR executive named John Barron to tout Donald Trump's eligibility as a bachelor. The president spoke to and took questions from reporters at the White House for more than an hour, Feb. 16.

Source: Washington Post February 17, 2017 14:34 UTC