During interview with Reuters Donald Trump laments the loss of his old life, claims he thought being president would be easy, and hands out copies of electoral map to impress reporters.

Courtesy of Reuters:  

He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is. 

President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House. 

"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

Yes, who didn't assume that being president would be a piece of cake?

You know, besides everybody.

At one point during the interview Trump got so depressed he suddenly started handing out evidence of his last victory.

here's a pic from reuters of Trump with the electoral maps he showed to reporters yesterday pic.twitter.com/1X3edpeJDQ

— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 28, 2017

More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map. 

"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us.

"He had copies for each of the three Reuters reporters in the room. 

Then Trump continued to lament how isolated he has been since winning that election.

Trump, who said he was accustomed to not having privacy in his "old life," expressed surprise at how little he had now. And he made clear he was still getting used to having 24-hour Secret Service protection and its accompanying constraints. 

"You're really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can't go anywhere," he said.

You know I am not one to offer Donald Trump any assistance, but if he is so miserable at this job he could also just quit.

After all I know that would do much to increase his popularity.

And do you know who would NOT find the job of being president harder than they anticipated, or think that it was too isolating, Hillary Clinton.

Just a thought.

Elizabeth Warren has zero sympathy for Ted Cruz.

Yesterday @TedCruz sent a campaign email whining about the “significant sacrifice” he’s made to run for President. pic.twitter.com/yKtLpWG0Ou

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Are you kidding me, @TedCruz? We’re supposed to pity you because trying to be the leader of the free world is hard?! 2 words: Boo hoo.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Know whose health is limited? Workers w/ no paid leave who can't stay home when sick or caring for kids. @TedCruz won't support it.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Know whose sleep is limited? Working parents who stay up worrying about getting kids thru college w/o big debt. @TedCruz blocked #refi.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Know who gets no family time, @TedCruz? Moms w/ unfair schedules who drop kids at daycare & find their hrs cancelled. @GOP won't help.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Know who’s facing "constant attacks," @TedCruz? Hardworking American immigrants, Muslims, LGBT folks, women. Your constant attacks.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

You chose to run for President, @TedCruz. You chose to make your “sacrifices.” Working people don't have a choice.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) April 19, 2016

Please remind me to NEVER get on Elizabeth Warren's bad side.

I mean damn!

Two more operatives have jumped off Sarah Palin's ship of fools.

From New York Magazine:

According to sources with knowledge of Palinland, Palin parted ways with longtime aides Jason Recher and Doug McMarlin just before the midterm elections. Until recently, Recher was a key player in Palin's operation. The shuffling of mid-level staffers would seem like a minor, inside development, but the move carries much larger significance: Palin's staffing issues remain one of her biggest political weak spots when compared to her talents as a speaker, fund-raiser, and media personality.

Recher, a 31-year-old GOP operative, was perhaps Palin's most trusted supporter in the trenches of the '08 run (he famously encouraged her to go to Michigan against the wishes of McCain headquarters). Known on the '08 campaign for his well-honed impressions of President Bush, Recher bonded with Palin, and following the campaign, Recher and McMarlin formed a consulting company, NorthStar Strategies, which ran Palin's travel schedule and logistics. They organized Palin's national book tour for Going Rogue. According to the most recent financial filing, NorthStar billed SarahPAC, her political operation, $10,000 in November 2010.

But Recher came to take on more than a simple logistics role: He participated in the morning conference call with Palin's small coterie of advisers and often served as a de facto press secretary. But around the time the 2010 midterm elections rolled around, Recher mysteriously dropped out of Palinland. He was no longer on conference calls and went off to help organize the book tour for Bush's memoir, Decision Points. When the Decision Points book tour concluded, Recher didn't return to the Palin camp. Sources close to Palinland wouldn't say why Recher and Palin split. "We never hear about this stuff," one source explained, saying simply that Recher just was no longer in the picture. (Recher and McMarlin didn't respond to several phone messages and e-mails.)

So Team Palin gains a new Chief of Staff after losing two trusted aides. Not surprising in the least. Though kind of interesting that there are never any reasons given or any time for good-byes provided to those who have worked alongside these two gentlemen for such an extended period of time. (Hell in "Palin years" lasting for two years is almost like a decade in any other organization.)

This does not sound as if Palin is getting any easier to work with, and is probably still burning through aides and advisers like cigarettes at an AA meeting.

Now there are two more potential sources of information for the various authors, bloggers, and magazine writers to interview.  I wonder who will be the first to get an exclusive?

At this point watching the rotting of the Palin political corpse is becoming a little hard to stomach.