Trump to Maggie Haberman: I ran for fame

• "Yet there it was: Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them," Haberman wrote.

Haberman described the "candid admission" as "jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising."

• She added in parenthesis: "When I asked him in a later interview about what he’d liked about the job, he replied, 'Getting things done,' and listed a few accomplishments."

The big picture: Trump, who faces legal peril in at least three different cases, also weighed in on the looming question of whether he took classified documents from the White House.

• "Nothing of great urgency, no," he told Haberman, per the excerpt in The Atlantic.

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