The speech was widely criticized by former C.I.A. officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations. But Mr. Trump, in an interview on Wednesday with ABC News, cast the visit to C.I.A. as a highlight of his first days in office.

“That speech was a home run,” he said. “I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl, and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time.”

Trump approval ratings? Not so hot

President Trump, now famously touchy about his approval ratings, is not doing well on that front.

A new Quinnipiac University poll put his approval rating among American voters at 36 percent, 33 percent among women. In Quinnipiac’s first poll of Barack Obama’s presidency, Mr. Trump’s predecessor stood at 59 percent.

Republican lawmakers who might be considering distancing themselves from their president should consider this: Mr. Trump’s approval-disapproval rating among Republicans is 81 percent to 3 percent.

Independent voters are the problem. They are more split, with 45 percent disapproving and 35 percent approving of the job that the president is doing.

Bernhard Langer says he saw no voting fraud and never talked to Trump

Gathered with the top leaders of Congress, President Trump on Monday apparently relayed the story in all seriousness: the pro golfer Bernhard Langer had told him a story that really stuck with him.

As Mr. Trump relayed it, Mr. Langer had been in line to vote in Florida when he was told by an official that he could not cast a ballot. But people all around him who looked far more suspect — Mr. Trump tossed out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from — were allowed to draw up provisional ballots.