Following President Trump’s unusual move on Tuesday to televise most of a bipartisan meeting on immigration, CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger seemed to credit Trump gossip book author Michael Wolff for Trump’s bipartisan behavior during the meeting.

Moments after the tape of the meeting ended, both Borger and colleague Dana Bash credited the President for making this move that CNN chyron writers deemed an “extraordinary look inside Trump’s bipartisan meeting.”

The panel first invoked Wolff when Borger noticed that “the right-wing...is already starting to attack the President on this and this is a President who I think is pointedly behaving not as Michael Wolff will have him not portrayed in his book, but is somebody who is sitting around the table and is in charge here.”

Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece echoed that sentiment, chalking it up to “the political realities kick[ing] in” with Ann Coulter blasting the meeting as having done “more damage to [Trump] than anything in the Mike Wolff book because, in the Trump grassroots base, they want nothing more than the wall in the Trump base.”

A few moments later, Borger equated Tuesday’s meeting to an episode of a Trump reality show in which “everybody decided they were going to play.” However, she then invoked the portrait of Trump portrayed by Wolff as having affected the proceedings:

[A]nd what we heard from the President today multiple times is I'll be signing it. Whatever you bring to me, I have a lot of confidence of the people in the room....be signing it. I'll be signing it and we don't know what that it is, but we know now this is a President who has been burned terrifically by the Michael Wolff book. This is a President who knows, and John points out, what his approval ratings are, and he wants a win.

So, if Trump was mentally ill, how would he be able to react to a book like Wolff’s and make a conscious decision to show competency and leadership? You can’t have it both ways, liberal media!

Here’s the relevant transcript from CNN’s Wolf on January 9: