'I was all by myself in the White House': A chatty Trump went on for 90 minutes during first post-holiday Cabinet meeting

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• Home alone no more, President Donald Trump had a lot to share when he convened a rambling Cabinet meeting on Day 12 of the government shutdown.
• It was Trump's first public appearance in nearly a week, after being holed up in the White House for Christmas and New Year's.
• "You know, I was in the White House all by myself for six, seven days. It was very lonely. My family was down in Florida," Trump recounted. 
• He described channel-flipping and watching a different network — PBS — to fill the time.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Home alone no more, President Donald Trump had a lot to share when he convened a rambling Cabinet meeting on Day 12 of the government shutdown.

The president, eager for company after a lonely stretch in a near-empty White House, zigzagged for more than 90 minutes from his demands for a southern border wall to his thoughts on Kanye West and his decision to pull troops out of Syria — all while a mock movie poster with his photograph and the words "SANCTIONS ARE COMING, NOVEMBER 4" sat, without explanation, in the middle of the grand Cabinet Room table.

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