My favorite moment in Donald Trump’s trip to France came when our president was doing a little riff about North Korea and Kim Jong-un. Not only had he come to know Kim well, Trump told reporters, “the first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong-un and I think she’d agree with me, he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential.”

Melania Trump has never met Kim Jong-un. Paging the cleanup crew.

“President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the detailed elements of his strong relationship with Chairman Kim,” his press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, explained. “And while the first lady hasn’t met him, the president feels like she’s gotten to know him too.”

Definitely the most creative explanation of the week for Stuff Trump Makes Up. Second prize may also go to Grisham, who tried to clear up her boss’s wildly meandering positions on China trade.

After going back and forth several times, the president was asked if he was having second thoughts (or third, or eighteenth …) about the tariff war. He replied, “I have second thoughts about everything.”