(CNN) Some times when President Donald Trump talks, all you can do is shake your head in amazement.

Take his comments Friday morning in the Oval Office, for one. Trump was trying to downplay the raging controversy over a whistleblower's complaint that deals with communication between Trump and a foreign leader. It didn't work.

Start here: Trump described the complaint as filed by a "partisan whistleblower." And he referred to the complaint as a "political hack job."

Which is interesting! Was Trump telling us that he knew the identity of the whistleblower? And did he have information that proved that this person was, in fact, a partisan out to get Trump? Man, big story!

"I do not know the identity of the whistleblower," Trump then said.

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