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Several minutes into President Trump’s social media summit at the White House on Thursday, the president grew nostalgic, reminiscing on some of his greatest Twitter hits.

Remember when I said somebody was spying on me?” he asked.

That “somebody” was President Barack Obama. And Trump was referring to a series of his own tweets in March 2017 in which he falsely — and with no evidence offered — accused his predecessor of committing what would probably have been an illegal act. “This is Nixon/Watergate,” Trump wrote in one missive. “Bad (or sick) guy!”.

But to hear Trump tell it now, the entire controversy — which gripped the nation for weeks to come — was simply a lark, a convenient way for him to boost his social media following into the stratosphere while dominating the conversation here on Earth.

"I used to watch it,” Trump said Thursday. “It’d be like a rocket ship when I put out a beauty.”

Trump repeated the bogus spying claim and continued. “That thing was like a rocket,” he said, popping up his right thumb and shooting it skyward. “I get a call two minutes later: ‘Did you say that?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I said that.’ ‘Well, it’s exploding. It’s exploding.’ ” [....]