CNN's Wolf Blitzer cut away from President Donald Trump's rambling remarks to House Republicans.
The 79-year-old president spoke to GOP lawmakers Tuesday morning for the first time since his administration’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, but he touched on a variety of topics — both related and unrelated to the extraordinary military operation.
"You know, they're paid when they have brand new, beautiful printed signs by like the highest quality printer, and you have a woman [sighing] 'Free Maduro,' and the sign is before we even did the attack, you know, 'free Maduro,'" Trump said, mocking a protester he saw on television.
"Why do you want him freed? 'I don't know, but he should be free.' Oh, she reads a sign. What does that say? It says free. Well, that's what I believe, and, you know, you see the sign? It's like, Lisa, we should all have quality signage like that. The one thing I want, I want their sign maker. The guy is great. He does beautiful signage."
"You know, the old days was better when they used to write out their own sign, wasn't it?" the president added. "They'd make a sign in the basement. They'd have an old broken board holding up a sign, and it's made with a magic marker, sloppy as hell, and it meant something. But today, when you have that yellow and black, they should use different colors a little bit. But the yellow is a beautiful shade of yellow. Now I want to find out who that is. I want him to work for the work for the Republican campaign. He's much better than our guy, whoever the guy is."
The president continued on for several more minutes in that manner, weaving in and out of digressions to occasional laughter from his audience, until "The Situation Room" cut away.
"He's going all over the place, speaking on a wide range of issues," Blitzer told viewers.