For context, you need to know several things about the president that were recently revealed in actual news reports: He has a button on his desk that signals a butler to bring him a Coke; he admitted to firing Comey in part because of the FBI's Russian investigation, which is also looking into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia; Trump claimed that Comey told him three times that he's not under investigation; and the president suggested that he came up with the phrase "priming the pump."