The president seems to prefer that an interviewer think that he’s studied the full breadth of possible political issues than to suggest that perhaps he’s not intimately familiar with a subject. Perhaps the most important example from his time in politics came in November 2015, when Yahoo’s Hunter Walker asked Trump whether tracking Muslims in the United States might go so far as to include identifying them in a database.

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“We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump replied. When a reporter from NBC later asked him more firmly about the idea, Trump said that he would “certainly implement that.”

When the inevitable backlash emerged, Trump blamed the idea on the reporter.

His quick acquiescence to ideas raised by reporters manifests itself constantly. Fox News’s Sean Hannity interviewed him shortly after he took office and raised the question of pardons.

“One night, I know you were watching my show, and I had the mother of this young soldier who is spending a year in jail because he took six pictures for his own use in a submarine,” Hannity asked. “…Would that be something early on you would consider?”

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“I’m actually looking at it right now,” Trump replied.

Hannity brought up another example, and Trump cut him off: “We’re looking at a few of them.”

It’s very possible that Trump remembered that Hannity episode and had begun thinking about a pardon. (Trump does love to watch Fox News.) But it’s more likely that Trump heard something with which he generally agreed and simply acquiesced to it in broad strokes.

In July, we looked at what Trump was looking at.

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In December 2015, CBS’s John Dickerson asked Trump whether people on the terrorist watch list should be banned from buying firearms. Trump replied that he would “certainly look at that very hard.”

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Asked if he might sue to challenge Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tex.) eligibility to serve as president, Trump said last February that he was “thinking about it very seriously.” The issue of Cruz’s citizenship was first discussed by Trump when he was asked about it during an interview with The Washington Post.

When the obscure issue of the Renewable Fuel Standard was raised during a campaign event in North Dakota in May, Trump said that his team “will be looking at” whether it should be extended past 2022.

Asked that same month whether he might raise the minimum wage, Trump said he was “actually looking at that.” As has so often been the case, Trump’s position on the minimum wage has been all over the place depending on the audience and moment. (See also: abortion.)

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Reporters and political observers were quick to note that Trump’s position on the gas tax appeared to be another example of his nodding along with his interviewer.

What generally happens after Trump makes news by concurring with a question he is asked is that his team then has to sweep in and clarify his “real” position. In this case, it was left to press secretary Sean Spicer.

Apparently he’s not considering it any more. At least, not any more today.

There was one example we came across in which Trump was asked a question and he replied that he was not looking at it. During the third presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would make a commitment to “absolutely accept the result of this election,” regardless of outcome.